{"id":12983,"date":"2025-04-12T06:36:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T06:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/12983\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T06:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T06:36:26","slug":"demolition-of-notorious-port-glasgow-estate-to-begin-april-2025-news-architecture-in-profile-the-building-environment-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/12983\/","title":{"rendered":"Demolition of notorious Port Glasgow estate to begin : April 2025 : News : Architecture in profile the building environment in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 11 2025<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanrealm.com\/images\/news\/news_11432.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-urban noopener\" title=\"Demolition of notorious Port Glasgow estate to begin\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/49782ed9fe7ee1a64f108df902b4581e.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Demolition of notorious Port Glasgow estate to begin\" title=\"Demolition of notorious Port Glasgow estate to begin\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Inverclyde Council is to belatedly commence demolition of a condemned Port Glasgow residential district to progress a regeneration masterplan.<\/p>\n<p>A fire-gutted former school and church at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanrealm.com\/news\/3826\/Port_Glasgow_regeneration_plans_put_under_the_spotlight.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clune Park<\/a> are first in line for the wrecking ball, both of which are set to come down in a matter of weeks. These will be followed by a further 15 tenement blocks comprising 138 flats lining the western side of Bruce Street and connecting section of Robert Street and both sides of Wallace Street.<\/p>\n<p>The B-listed Clune Park School and Clune Park Church are both owned by Inverclyde Council, the former going up in flames in 2023. It had been hoped to pursue a facade retention scheme for the school to retain a focal point for the area.<\/p>\n<p>Demolition contractor Caskie has been lined up to carry out the six-month contract from late April, clearing the way for a new residential masterplan prepared by Hypostyle Architects.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Stephen McCabe, leader of Inverclyde Council, said: \u201cIt\u2019s important to remember that the former school and church buildings and the residential properties are being demolished in the interests of safety based on professional advice following extensive investigations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A further 30 tenement blocks are subject to further investigations to identify dangerous buildings. Ultimately it is proposed to replace 430 substandard tenement flats with 165 affordable homes for social rent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanrealm.com\/images\/news\/newspic_13108.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-urban noopener\" title=\"A mix of 165 new homes will be delivered in phases\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/6c26f16021378c8f3587d05a7aec836a.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"180\" height=\"160\" alt=\"A mix of 165 new homes will be delivered in phases\" title=\"A mix of 165 new homes will be delivered in phases\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>A mix of 165 new homes will be delivered in phases<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 11 2025 Inverclyde Council is to belatedly commence demolition of a condemned Port Glasgow residential district to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[7529,7530,748,8858,918,4884,12,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-12983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-april-2025","9":"tag-architecture-in-the-uk","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-demolition-of-notorious-port-glasgow-estate-to-begin","12":"tag-glasgow","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114323612177436427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}