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Y Our Blythswood YOUR BLYTHSWOOD Glasgow City Centre District Regeneration Frameworks Blythswood District - Final Draft Report June 2019 Blythswood District Regeneration Framework as defined in Glasgow City Centre Strategy 2014-2019 Project Team Contents 1 Introduction 06 Blythswood Projects 32 Client - Glasgow City Council Lead designer, strategy Local consultant, Local designer 2 (Y)our Updated Mobility 40 3 (Y)our Urbanised M8 66 4 (Y)our Great Streets & Spaces 90 Connectivity, spatial Property market Socio-economic Community animation, 5 (Y)our Great Buildings 120 economics consultants regeneration consultants engagement 6 (Y)our Vibrant Blythswood 144 7 Transforming (Y)our Blythswood 178 Gerry Grams 8 Planning Policy 192 Smart city consultants Strategic city design Engineering advice Cost consultants adviser 9 Action Plan 202 © Crown Copyright and database right 2015. All rights reserved. OS Licence No. 100023379. You are not permitted to copy, sub-license or sell any of this data to third parties in any form. 07/03/2015 (Y)OUR BLYTHSWOOD (Y)OUR BLYTHSWOOD INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION Introduction The Blythswood District Regeneration Framework Edwardian commercial architecture. The area also The city centre’s relationship with the motorway is Royal Conservatoire and the Glasgow Film (DRF) study area encompasses a diverse area of includes some of Glasgow’s most crucial and this DRF addresses how to mitigate the Theatre. central Glasgow, covering an area more varied unprepossessing post WW2 architecture, much of negative impact the M8 has on the adjacent urban than the name suggests. Glasgow’s planned 18th it clustered along the M8 corridor and including environment. The M8 is also considered in the As noted above this part of the city is undergoing century westward expansion resulted in the urban social housing, hotels, and vacant or under Broomielaw and Sauchiehall / Garnethill DRFs and significant change and churn. Redundant office grid that was laid out over Blythswood Hill. Despite occupied offices. this DRF should be read in conjunction with them stock is being refreshed or replaced for residential, being eroded over time, the cohesion of the and the emerging possibilities for an M8 cap at hotel / leisure or new commercial / workplace Georgian urban grid is still evident around The area is undergoing significant change. Some Charing Cross. Any future plans would have to be environments. This remixing of uses presents an Blythswood Square at the summit of the of the mediocre Modernist architecture is being developed in collaboration with key stakeholders, opportunity for this piece of the city to integrate eponymous drumlin hill. However the DRF area replaced by new commercial development in and including Transport Scotland. positively with adjacent neighbourhoods. To the extends westwards from West Campbell Street to around the Central Business District, Cadogan west of the M8 the residential-led Anderston straddle the M8 motorway and encapsulate the Square, the former Albany site, and the area The opportunity to retrace and reinforce lost or masterplan is refreshing existing social housing area between two of Glasgow’s most famous, between the motorway and Blythswood Square underwhelming arterial routes across the stock with selective demolition and replacement of formerly great streets; Sauchiehall Street and which features new hotels, student residential motorway to join up established and emerging contemporary tenements that start to repair the Argyle Street. development and a pipeline of mixed use schemes ‘high street’ centres is important. As Finnieston / historic street pattern partially erased by Modernist including private rented sector (PRS) residential. Argyle Street matures as a revitalised retail / leisure planning. Within this area there are some architectural gems The new Scottish Power headquarters and the destination, super-charged by the Scottish Event and landmarks including Alexander ‘Greek’ neighbouring St. Vincent Plaza office development Campus, there exists an opportunity to link and The District hosts some of Glasgow’s most Thomson’s St. Vincent Street Church, announce themselves on the city’s skyline and regenerate Sauchiehall Street and Argyle Street emblematic cultural destinations including the Mackintosh’s refurbished Willow Tea Rooms, the make manifest a shifting pattern of early 21st from the city to the West End. The City Deal massive Mitchell Library and the elaborate King’s neo-classical Mitchell Library overlooking the M8 Century development to meet the motorway. Avenues investment on both streets, should act as Theatre. It also has a notable lack of public open cutting, the under occupied former Glasgow High the basis for a regeneration strategy that supports space, with the only noteworthy green space being School and some of Glasgow’s great Victorian and local businesses by maximising street-life and the private garden in Blythswood Square. footfall and creating a far more attractive Maximising these cultural assets whilst providing destination infused with culture and creativity given enhanced public spaces is a key focus for this the proximity of Glasgow School of Art (GSA), the DRF. 6 7 (Y)OUR BLYTHSWOOD (Y)OUR BLYTHSWOOD INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION The Assignment (Y)our Ideas This District Regeneration Framework outlines a (Y)our City Centre, (Y)our Blythswood district The City Centre Strategy and Action Plan 2014-19 This District Regeneration Framework has been vision, projects and an action plan to refocus the sets out a vision and objectives for central prepared in collaboration with a wide array of Blythwsood district of Glasgow in the next ten This city’s motto is “Let Glasgow Flourish”. If Glasgow and defines nine city centre Districts; one stakeholders and consultees. Ideas and opinions years. It overlaps with adjacent DRFs, notably Glasgow is to flourish in the 21st century the city of which is Blythswood district. A Regeneration have been shared by Glaswegians and visitors to Broomielaw, Central and Sauchiehall / Garnethill. It centre will have to be at the vanguard of wider Framework is to be prepared for each District. the city. Engagement and consultation has been is intended to align with these DRFs, and in regeneration, with Blythswood leading the way and conducted on-street, online, in public exhibitions, combination set out a framework for adapting testing how to redefine (Y)our Future City Centre. The pilot Framework was prepared for Sauchiehall design workshops and via social media. Glasgow to the changing demands of + Garnethill and was completed and published in Participants have included residents, businesses, contemporary city life as well as local and 2016. The next four Districts are: Broomielaw, St. land and building owners / occupiers, developers international challenges. Enoch, Central and Blythswood. The last four and investors, local and national agencies, Council District Regeneration Frameworks will be for the departments, elected members, charities, With consideration of resource constraints the Merchant City, Learning Quarter, Townhead and voluntary organisations and tourists. action plan has been consolidated into a more Cowcaddens. deliverable range of priorities that will be confirmed (Y)our Ideas have informed and shaped the through a formal public consultation on the draft Each District Regeneration Framework will guide recommendations and projects emerging through DRF. physical, social and economic regeneration and (Y)our Blythwsood District Regeneration may inform Supplementary Planning Guidance Framework. This part of the city centre is undergoing a (Local Development Frameworks and/or Strategic repositioning which, if successful, could be Development Frameworks as defined in the City transformational to the city’s economic, cultural, Development Plan (2017). social and civic health and future prosperity. Preparing this Framework has been a collaborative, collective effort involving the many people with a stake and interest in Glasgow City Centre and the Blythswood DRF area. For this reason this project is underscored by this collective effort, expertise and energy. 8 9 (Y)OUR BLYTHSWOOD (Y)OUR BLYTHSWOOD INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION (Y)our Blythswood District Boundaries Purpose and structure of this Report The boundaries for the (Y)our Blythswood District PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT STRUCTURE OF THIS REPORT Regeneration Framework are defined in the Glasgow City Centre Strategy and Action Plan The principal purpose of this District Regeneration This DRF considers the role the Blythswood 2014-19. The Framework encompasses an area Framework (DRF) is to guide forthcoming physical, District has to play in the wider renewal of Glasgow between Argyle Street to the south and Sauchiehall social and economic regeneration and city centre. The regeneration of Glasgow City Street to the north. The western boundary is development in the area of the city centre Centre and the River Clyde corridor should be defined by Elderslie Street / Little Street whilst the designated by the City Centre Strategy 2014-19 as considered national priority projects and the eastern edge is defined by West Campbell Street. the Blythwsood district. Blythswood DRF area has a pivotal role in redefining the city centre’s future role. The The Blythwood DRF area is focused on The City Centre Strategy states that each DRF will Framework assesses the significant challenges Blythswood Hill, running down towards the Clyde contribute to Supplementary Planning Guidance. and opportunities that will continue
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