Gorbals\ Laurieston

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http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/News/Ne...sRTPIaward.htm
Thursday 02 February 2006

New Gorbals scoops major planning awards

The £170 million regeneration of the New Gorbals has been given a top award by the Royal Town Planning Institute.
The RTPI’s Planning Awards were established to recognise the positive achievements of the UK’s planning profession.The New Gorbals scheme won the Planning for New Neighbourhoods Award. It is major recognition for the hard work put in over the last 15 years to make the Gorbals a more attractive place to live, work and invest.

Councillor James Mutter, the local Glasgow City Council member for Hutchesontown, said: “This is a wonderful accolade, not just for the community of the New Gorbals but for the whole of Glasgow. This is one of many great projects that is being supported by Glasgow City Council which is helping not only the physical regeneration of an area but is also improving the lives of the people living and working there.
“It has set new regeneration standards by combining top class urban design with public/private investment. It has also demonstrated it is possible to reverse the economic decline and deprivation experienced in an area and attract people to return to live and work there.”

The regeneration of the area began in 1990 with the formation of the Crown Street Regeneration Project. Once the site of the damp flats and maisonettes of the Hutchesontown area, Crown Street set new standards for regeneration not only in the Gorbals but across the whole of the city.
Since then it has seen the creation of hundreds of new homes, both for the private and socially rented sector; local shops, including a supermarket; new tree lined streets, the Gorbals Park, student accommodation, leisure centre, library, business park and a local development company to assist in the improvement of the local economy.

The scheme is an prime example of what can be achieved through public/private partnership. Glasgow City Council is looking to continue this success in the neighbouring regeneration schemes of Oatlands and Laurieston.

http://www.rtpi.org.uk/about-the-rtp...s/planachieve/

NEW NEIGHBOURHOODS (sponsored by Berkeley Strategic)
Award for New Neighbourhoods to
THE NEW GORBALS, GLASGOW
Submitted by Glasgow City Council
The Gorbals, situated on the south bank of the Clyde close to Glasgow City Centre, is being redeveloped again - and with impressive style and quality.
The famous nineteenth century tenements - hopelessly overcrowded and lacking basic amenities – were demolished in the sixties, but despite the involvement of some of the
best architects of the time the redevelopment was not a success. In particular the system-built Hutchesontown “E” deck access blocks suffered from serious problems of damp and condensation, and had to be demolished in 1987. This left a forty acre vacant site which forms the area under consideration and which was the catalyst for the New Gorbals regeneration.
This has taken some time – the Council has proceeded with care to make sure that the mistakes of the past were not repeated and that a genuine community was created in this important part of the City. The work was grounded in the statutory planning system, with a local plan being initiated in 1984 and completed in 1993. It set out objectives including restoring population levels, providing social facilities, and improving the tenure mix. This last aim may seem obvious but in an area then consisting almost entirely of Local Authority housing the idea of introducing other tenures and providing housing choice was challenging.
Consultation took place with communities surrounding the vacant area and the area was broken down into manageable pieces to allow the regeneration to grow and develop organically, with flexibility to meet changing demands and trends. Masterplans were produced for each segment which aimed to produce a “sustainable and vibrant
community”, with a mix of commercial and social provision, and innovative and high quality design. For Crown Street – the main focus of the entry - the masterplan was produced (after a competition) by Piers Gough of CZWG. For the Queen Elizabeth Square area, which is following on from Crown Street, Hypostyle Architects are building on the good work of the earlier phase.
We were impressed by many things; Firstly, the success of the project has been due to a very impressive level of team working by the City Council, Government Agencies, Housing Associations and others; the constructive ease of this relationship shone through in the presentations.

link to some of the Historical facts of the Gorbals
http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/airgli/airgli0110.htm

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High-rises to make way for £350m vision of the future
A NEW Gorbals Cross, a landmark square and 1700 homes are at the centre of a £350million plan to revitalise a rundown part of Glasgow

The blueprint will see the demolition of the notorious Stirlingfaulds tower blocks in Laurieston to make way for the ambitious scheme.

A new city park will form the centrepiece of the upmarket residential development in the style of the traditional city squares of the west end's Park Circus.

The historic Gorbals Cross, which was demolished in the 1970s, will also be reinstated as a focal point with artists commissioned to help re-design a new landmark for the area.


THE Stirlingfaulds tower blocks will be demolished and Laurieston transformed into a residential development in the style of city squares such as Park Circus

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I've written a piece on it at futureglasgow. Live now.