Derelict land in North and East Glasgow is set to be handed over to housing associations for regeneration.

Glasgow City Council has given the green light for land in Maryhill - at Kilmun Street, Sandbank Street, Fearnmore Road, and Cumlodden Driven – to be disposed to Maryhill Housing Association.

Similarly land in in Gallowgate – at Wyper Place – will be disposed to Wheatley Homes Glasgow.

The move will allow for progress to be made on the delivery of regeneration in both parts of the city.

Councillor Ruairi Kelly, convener for neighbourhood services and assets at Glasgow City Council, said: “The council’s disposal of the pieces of land in the Gallowgate and Maryhill will allow both the development of new homes in the city and upgraded public realm in an area that has been vacant for some time. 

“We will continue to work with our partners in the city to help deliver initiatives such as these which meet our strategic housing objectives.”

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The land in Maryhill is all within the Maryhill Transformational Regeneration Area (TRA) and is steeply sloping and mostly wooded, with pathways and grassed areas.

After being handed over to Maryhill Housing Association it will be cleared up and upgraded to improve amenity and access.

The housing association has been given grant funding from the Scottish Government’s Vacant and Derelict Land Fund and Vacant and Derelict Land Investment Programme to undertake the works which form part of the delivery of the North Maryhill TRA Green Infrastructure Masterplan.

Land at Wyper Place in Gallowgate lies within the Gallowgate TRA. Ownership of the Hammerhead Road and a small grassed area of vacant land at the site will be transferred to Wheatley Homes Glasgow.

It will then form part of the landscape and attenuation work for the development of 70 new affordable homes as part of the redevelopment of the former Bellgrove Hotel.

Wheatley Homes Glasgow is progressing with a stopping up order – a legal order that removes a section of land from being a road making it available for development - for the Hammerhead Road, and as part of the TRA regeneration work there, the adjoining Bellgrove Hotel will be partially demolished.

It is understood that the façade will be retained.