Drew Sandelands

Fire-hit Glasgow primary school to be turned into social housing

The owners of all three properties have died and no one has yet taken the required legal steps to inherit the homes.

The site on Sauchiehall Street has been empty for over a decade but planning approval to redevelop it has now been confirmed.

Councillors approved a plan to sell four sites to Barrhead Housing Association at a meeting earlier this month.

“The very last thing Glasgow can afford is for housing stock to be deliberately damaged or destroyed"

Planners at the council are again recommending refusal for Homeless Project Scotland's night shelter as the “development has been linked strongly to an increase in anti-social behaviour".

Cllr Ricky Bell, who represents Govan, was voted in as the new leader at a meeting this morning.

Barrhead Housing Association would take over the sites, including the former Arthurlie FC Social Club, to deliver housing.

A councillor said inappropriate development cannot be shoehorned into any old space. Planners believed the scheme should go ahead.

A senior councillor said he was “finding it difficult to express how utterly furious I am this morning” after a "breakdown in communication".