More homes are set to be built on Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games athletes’ village site.
A second stage of development would see City Legacy Ltd provide 125 new houses in Dalmarnock on “the residue of the site”.
Before work can begin, council officials have said changes to an agreement with the developer need to be approved. They would include progressing the scheme as one phase, instead of two.
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The first part of Glasgow’s athletes’ village project, which followed the 2014 Commonwealth Games, included 300 private houses and 400 homes for social rent as well as a school and a care home.
Cllr Ruairi Kelly, the council’s convener for neighbourhood services and assets, said: “The athletes’ village was a landmark development for Dalmarnock and the East End of Glasgow, bringing high-quality housing for sale and social rent to the area and was clearly a catalyst for the wider and ongoing regeneration of this part of the city.
“The approval of the development agreement would allow the construction of the second phase of the development to begin, with all the economic and social benefits this will bring to Glasgow.”
Glasgow City Council entered into an agreement with City Legacy for the development of the Commonwealth Games village in 2010.
Phase one focused on the use and sale of the 700 flats and houses which made up the 2014 athletes’ village while phase two relates to the “development of the residue of the site”.
In 2019, it was agreed that 125 more homes would be built in two phases: 2A (49 houses) and 2B (76 houses).
A council report added the two parties “also agreed that City Legacy would have the right to sell the completed residential units to third party purchasers and retain the proceeds of such sales”.
That was “subject to an obligation to obtain the best price reasonably obtainable on the open market and to make land and overage payments to the council”.
Work was split into 2A and 2B due to the “location of what was known as the Scottish Power site” — land owned by Scottish Power which the council planned to buy.
“This Scottish Power site is now available and it would now make commercial sense to lead the construction of the works by commencing with Phase 2B and constructing the works as one phase,” the report to councillors added.
Councillors will be asked to agree to this change at a meeting on Thursday. They will also consider a “new financial model” for the re-phasing. The initial financial model had only covered phase 2A.
Planning approval for 125 homes on the site was granted in 2021, after initial permission had expired. The application stated the scheme included the “regeneration of the brownfield site utilised for the tented temporary village during the Commonwealth Games”.
The plans added the work would connect the village “back to the existing community” to the west of the site.
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