| Comment | A significant portion of the land adjacent to the Clyde is owned by Peel Ports, a private company and inheritor of the portfolio of land previously overseen by the Clyde Navigation Trust, which was established in the 1800s as a public-private body with powers to manage growth of industry along the Clyde at the height of Glasgow's mercantile expansion.
The land is still privately owned. And nothing happens on this former industrial land without it being the desire of the landowners.
On occasion, it has been parcelled up for specific uses: the biggest probably being the construction of the SECC site in the 1980s. Since then there's been the construction of housing at Glasgow Harbour and some commercial developments around Finnieston and Anderston.
Developments only arise on this land when it suits the landowners to do so. There's currently talk of a few new developments on notable gap sites along the river, housing at [Yorkhill Quay](https://www.urbanrealm.com/news/9392/Yorkhill_Quay_evolution_trades_scale_for_uniformity.html) and even [a waterpark facing onto the Transport Museum](https://www.urbanrealm.com/news/9726/Peel_pivot_from_retail_to_wellbeing_at_Glasgow_Waters.html). Sometimes these ideas are simply thrown around to help further inflate land values. The Yorkhill Quay scheme looks like it is going ahead though. |
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