Hundreds of homes to unlock untapped potential of Yorkhill dock area: July 2024: News: Architecture in profile of Scotland’s built environment

July 30, 2024

Peel Waters has been given planning permission to begin construction of a 1,100-home waterside neighbourhood at Yorkhill Quay in Glasgow, next to the Transport Museum.

First floated in 2021, the ambitious plan includes a 200-bed riverside hotel, 2,500m2 of leisure facilities and public space, interwoven with hundreds of owner-occupied, rental and co-living homes.

The huge project forms the centrepiece of the wider Glasgow Waters development, an attempt to regenerate 100 hectares of former dockland between the West End and the city centre. It is conceived as a series of ‘river rooms’ that offer open views of the River Clyde from their south-facing terraces.

Brian Lavalette, property director at Peel Waters, said: “Glasgow Waters is one of the largest and most exciting regeneration projects in Scotland and Yorkhill Quay will be a significant, ground-breaking development within it, delivering much-needed new homes, improved connectivity and infrastructure, whilst creating a pipeline of new jobs for our community.”

Conditions of the approval state that Peel must start the phased development within a period of five years. The project team consists of Keppie Design and landscape architect Oobe.