A former police court building in Glasgow’s East End is set to be converted into “stylish” flats under new plans.
Detail Residential has asked Glasgow City Council for permission to revamp the B-listed Central Police Headquarters on Turnbull Street into “beautiful residential apartments”.
The firm would provide 45 homes, ranging from one to four beds, and refurbish the rundown building’s facades.
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Detail has promised to “sensitively restore” the “dilapidated” police headquarters to provide “stylish contemporary living in Glasgow’s East End”.
Facing one of Glasgow’s oldest churches, the A-listed St Andrew’s in the Square, the building, which sits within the city’s Central Conservation Area, was designed by A B McDonald and opened in 1906 as Glasgow District Court, Central Police Office and the Police Museum. It includes offices, a court hall and cells built around a courtyard.
Due to its listed status, the developers have said their proposal has been “carefully considered in order to retain and rejuvenate as much of the existing fabric as possible”.
The courtyard would be turned into a communal central garden while the proposed development, which would be car free, also includes a new “cut-away” roof to allow access to external terracing.
Currently empty, Detail wants to transform the building “into a new exemplar of 21st century urban living”, the application stated, with “nature brought back into its heart”.
“Most importantly the project will provide 45 new apartments in Glasgow’s thriving East End. This will further encourage greater footfall for all the new and existing businesses found in the area.
“It is imperative that our existing building stock, including buildings whose appearance seems at first less glamorous than their older or newer equivalents, should not be left behind and allowed to lie empty or derelict.”
An air-source heat pump communal heating system, kept in the basement, is proposed as it would use “significantly less energy compared to using individual boilers in each home”.
Sheltered bin and bike storage would be provided in the courtyard.
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