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Author	Scunnered20
Comment	> Council sanctions it. And if they were to build such things Well yeah, sure, I take your point. My reply was definitely on the side of being tedious, but then so many people seem to think the council is responsible for every rivet and brick in the city, it felt worth saying. > Other cities have regenerated their entire river front - ours - still a wasteland in places. An entirely fair point. The difficulty is the council, again, has very very limited influence on developments along the riverside, being that the bulk of both banks of the Clyde west of Central Station is in the hands of private land owners, in the shape of Peel Ports. No development happens without them having a notion to kick something off. Occasionally that has been parcelling off land incrementally for housing in fits and starts, or the SEC and Pacific Quay clusters. But their interest has typically been limited to maximising value from individual land parcels, so there's usually no joined-up-thinking or masterplanning from them for the whole river. As it happens, quite separately, two things are happening which make the future look a bit better for the riverside. 1) Inner city rents and housing demand have risen to such a level that there's now more long term value for landowners like Peel Ports in building residential developments, and doing it quickly and at scale, rather than simply landbanking. If you look along both sides of the river from Partick to the Broomielaw, there is now barely an existing gap site without a planning proposal attached to it. That wasn't the case a few years ago. 2) GCC has developed a few related governing strategies for the river and riverside land which is has some control over. The housing will come from developers, but GCC has published plans for a mix of urban realm improvements, road reconfigurations, public transport improvements, and pockets of green park land, all of which will be introduced in tandem with the private housing developments. So basically the issue of the riverside being quite a barren, disjointed space, should be tackled substantially over the next 5-10 years.
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Created	Tue 17th Oct 2023 6:14pm
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> Council sanctions it. And if they were to build such things

Well yeah, sure, I take your point. My reply was definitely on the side of being tedious, but then so many people seem to think the council is responsible for every rivet and brick in the city, it felt worth saying.

> Other cities have regenerated their entire river front - ours - still a wasteland in places.

An entirely fair point. The difficulty is the council, again, has very very limited influence on developments along the riverside, being that the bulk of both banks of the Clyde west of Central Station is in the hands of private land owners, in the shape of Peel Ports. No development happens without them having a notion to kick something off. Occasionally that has been parcelling off land incrementally for housing in fits and starts, or the SEC and Pacific Quay clusters. But their interest has typically been limited to maximising value from individual land parcels, so there's usually no joined-up-thinking or masterplanning from them for the whole river.

As it happens, quite separately, two things are happening which make the future look a bit better for the riverside.

1) Inner city rents and housing demand have risen to such a level that there's now more long term value for landowners like Peel Ports in building residential developments, and doing it quickly and at scale, rather than simply landbanking. If you look along both sides of the river from Partick to the Broomielaw, there is now barely an existing gap site without a planning proposal attached to it. That wasn't the case a few years ago.

2) GCC has developed a few related governing strategies for the river and riverside land which is has some control over. The housing will come from developers, but GCC has published plans for a mix of urban realm improvements, road reconfigurations, public transport improvements, and pockets of green park land, all of which will be introduced in tandem with the private housing developments.

So basically the issue of the riverside being quite a barren, disjointed space, should be tackled substantially over the next 5-10 years.