Coverage

The slow disappearance of Elmbank Gardens: site clearance enters its final weeks

Seven months after Reigart's machines moved in, the two 1960s blocks beside Charing Cross station have all but gone — and the cleared site will now wait a year for its tower.

20 August 2026

Charing Cross Gateway on the map →

ExplainersGlasgow

From concept to completion: the eleven gates every big Glasgow development passes

Why does a tower take seven years? A guide to the consents, agreements and warrants between a developer's first sketch and the day the doors open.

10 July 2026

Planning DecisionsDalmarnock

Housing consent for French Street site extends Dalmarnock's slow rebuild

A housing development west of Carstairs Street was granted consent just before Christmas, the latest addition to the East End's regeneration patchwork.

5 January 2026

Planning DecisionsPort Dundas

454 student beds approved at Borron Street as Port Dundas keeps building

Dundas House at 99 Borron Street will make way for a 454-bed student development, approved with a Section 75 agreement in June.

11 June 2025