GLASGOW NORTH STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK GLASGOW NORTH STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK Glasgow North SDF 1 Glasgow North Plan, Build, Share: A Healthy, High Quality Place Glasgow North SDF 2 CONTENTS Contents Page 1 Moving Forward Page 41 Delivery Page 41 Glasgow City Development Plan Page 2 Action Programme Page 42 Structure Page 3 Introduction Page 4 Strategic Development Frameworks Page 4 Context and Area Profile Page 5 Location and Spatial Context Page 5 Common Issues Page 7 Priorities Page 9 Vision and Outcomes Page 10 Spatial Design Strategy Page 11 Working North Page 12 Theme: Enterprise Page 14 Theme: North Gateway Page 16 Liveable North Page 18 Theme: Neighbourhoods Page 20 Theme: Town Centres Page 22 Connected North Page 25 Theme: Public Transport Page 27 Appendices Theme: Active Travel Page 29 Appendix A: Supporting Strategies and Initiatives Page 46 Green North Page 32 Appendix B: Engagement Events 2014-2019 Page 47 Theme: Green Network Page 34 Appendix C: Inset Area - Opportunities Page 48 Theme: River Kelvin and Glasgow Canal Corridors Page 36 Appendix D: Avenues North Project Page 65 Design Strategy Diagram Page 38 Appendix E: Promoting Town Centre Improvement Page 72 Glasgow North SDF 1 GLASGOW CITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN Glasgow City Development Plan 2017 Policies CDP 1 to CDP 12 Policies and Proposals Map Topic-Based Supplementary Guidance Documents: SG 2 Sustainable Spatial Strategy: SG 1: Placemaking Parts 1 and 2 SG 3: Economic Development* SG 4: Network of Centres Strategic Development Frameworks (SDFs) SG 5: Resource Management Glasgow North, City Centre, River Clyde Development Corridor, SG 6: Green Belt and Green Network * Govan-Partick, Inner East and Greater Easterhouse SG 7: Natural Environment + SG 8: Water Environment Local Development Frameworks (LDFs) SG 9: Historic Environment Drumchapel, Greater Pollok and South Central SG 10: Meeting Housing Needs SG 11: Sustainable Transport SG 12: Delivering Development* *Denotes guidance currently with interim status SG 1 and SG 3 to SG 12 provide detailed guidance relative to their SDFs and LDFs set out high level spatial planning guidance for specific subject. particular geographic areas within the City. Glasgow North SDF 2 STRUCTURE PRIORITIES VISION OUTCOMES SPATIAL DESIGN SPATIAL OUTCOMES VISION PRIORITIES Support the positive redevelopment of vacant land by Empower communitiesto shape the Promote a placemaking approach in the design of plans and developments affecting stimulating developer interest and co-ordinating delivery, proposals and interventions, to ensure projects their areas. while promoting environmental improvements and achieve good place quality and address the climate meanwhile uses in the short-to-medium term. change objectives set out in the Development Plan. Our vision is for Glasgow North to become a healthy and high quality place in which to live and work. A WORKING NORTH A LIVEABLE NORTH A CONNECTED NORTH A GREEN NORTH Attractive and accessible business Thriving, sustainable neighbourhoods Well-connected neighbourhoods with An accessible and multi-functional locations that support enterprise, that support healthy living. excellent public transport, walking and green network where nature and employment and economic cycling links to improve accessibility communities can flourish. inclusion. and reduce car use. STRATEGY STRATEGY Theme: Enterprise Theme: Neighbourhoods Theme: Public Transport Theme: Green Network Theme: North Gateway Theme: Town Centres Theme: Active Travel Theme: River Kelvin and Glasgow Canal Corridors DELIVERY ACTION PROGRAMME Glasgow North SDF 3 INTRODUCTION STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORKS The Glasgow North SDF sets out a vision and long term links, accessible town centres and planning for economic strategy that seeks to: development. The Glasgow City Development Plan Policy CDP 2 - Sustainable Spatial Strategy identifies six key areas of the City guide the future development of the area to create a Furthermore, there are three City Centre District which require strategic coordination of development and healthy and high quality place in which to live and Regeneration Frameworks in preparation (Townhead, investment activity. The six areas have similar issues in terms work; Learning Quarter and, in particular, Cowcaddens), which of possessing significant areas of vacant land, poor directly interface with the North SDF. These documents will co-ordinate current activity and direct future actions; connectivity and uneven open space provision. Each area introduce more detailed guidance in relation to connections also presents a particular combination of spatial provide principles that will help in the determination between the City Centre and Glasgow North. opportunities which, if realised, can create a series of of major planning applications and support the ENGAGEMENT attractive, connected and healthy neighbourhoods. delivery of key proposals. Over recent years, a range of engagement exercises have Throughout the SDF, opportunities are identified which could increased communities’ influence over spatial proposals and contribute to wider objectives regarding climate change In order to coordinate activity, Strategic Development plans affecting their areas (See Appendix B Engagement mitigation and adaptation. These include making it easier to Frameworks are being prepared for the following areas: Events 2014-2019, page 47). Whilst these exercises have live and work locally, active travel and public transport Glasgow North varied in scale - from a single site to area strategies - they improvements and green network enhancements, among have often highlighted communities’ wider aspirations for City Centre other measures. environmental improvement. The wider ambitions and River Clyde Development Corridor The Glasgow North SDF is being progressed through a findings of these recent consultations have helped to inform process leading to its approval as Supplementary Guidance to the vision, key outcomes and Guides set out in the Glasgow Govan Partick the City Development Plan. North SDF. Inner East Preparation of the SDF has been informed by a range of GLASGOW NORTH SDF Greater Easterhouse strategies and initiatives, a selection of which are listed in The Glasgow North SDF is directed at everyone with an In broad terms the six areas have been selected because they Appendix A (page 46). More recently, Covid-19 has brought a interest in improving and investing in Glasgow North to help have a specific mix of physical issues, socio-economic number of issues into sharp focus, in particular, where we create a healthy and high quality place. indicators and strategic opportunities. The SDFs provide a live, how we work, access to open space, the quality of our long-term vision for the regeneration of the relevant area surroundings, public health and wellbeing. The Glasgow You are asked to comment on the content of the SDF by 5.00 and a sustained commitment beyond the term of the current North SDF is well timed to address many of these issues and p.m. on Thursday 10th December 2020. to support the social and economic recovery of this area of City Development Plan. This is set out in more detail in the the city, through a focus on placemaking, good active travel relevant background paper to the City Development Plan. Plan, Build, Share: A Healthy, High Quality Place Glasgow North SDF 4 CONTEXT AND AREA PROFILE | LOCATION AND SPATIAL CONTEXT GLASGOW NORTH STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK AREA WEST END CITY CENTRE All images in this document are the property of Glasgow City Council and are produced under © Crown Copyright and database right 2019. OS Licence No. 100023379 Glasgow North SDF 5 CONTEXT AND AREA PROFILE | LOCATION AND SPATIAL CONTEXT LOCATION URBAN PAST having begun on Sighthill Transformational Regeneration Area (TRA) in the inner north. Glasgow North encompasses a substantial area of the City, The North contains several different neighbourhoods each stretching from the City Centre in the south through to the with their own individual heritage. Overall, the area was British Waterways (now Scottish Canals) through the green belt in the north. In 2018, the area had a resident historically famous for its industry, most notably in the form Millennium Link Project worked along with others to make population of around 67,800 people. Glasgow North also of the railways works in Springburn and Saracen Foundry in the Forth and Clyde Canal navigable again, following years of neighbours the City’s west end, as well as East Possilpark. The Forth and Clyde Canal is another defining decline in condition. The canal is now an important leisure, Dunbartonshire. There are three main arterial routes historical feature, having played a central role in the biodiversity and active travel asset. Significant investment in (Springburn Road, Balmore Road, Maryhill Road) serving the formative years of the industrial era. Town centres also the canal corridor has continued, and in the past decade a north, which also act as commuter roads into the City. developed in Maryhill, Possilpark and Springburn, which variety of cultural and sports organisations have located to remain vital locations to this day. the southern end of the area. There are several large open spaces, particularly moving out from the City Centre, and the Forth and Clyde Canal runs During the inter-war and post-war years, municipal house BUILDING INTO THE FUTURE through the area, including an individual branch which building programmes replaced many of the older tenements, There are