The following date-based events are associated with this building:
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| Event Type | From | To | Notes |
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| Plans prepared, construction not yet begun | 1958/02 | | \'Glasgow Corporation has received approval for the draft plans for 150 houses in the Gorbals redevelopment area.\' per Builder 21 Feb 1958 p378 |
| Proposed | 1958/09/05 | | \'staggered 20-storey block containing 400 dwellings\' with small garden or patio for almost every house...\'In addition, the whole of the underside of the block is planned to be covered play space\' per Builder p380 |
| Proposed | 1958/09/05 | | the staggered 20-storey block...creates a spine for the Redevelopment Scheme. It \'will contain the following accomodation: 60 one-room flats, 180 three-room, three-person maisonettes, 120 three-room, four-person maisonettes, and 40 four-room, five-person maisonettes...a total of 1,380 inhabitants.\' \'The houses, which are of the cross-over maisonette type, will all have...access from kitchens to gardens.\' \'Access will be from three main staircase towers, each containing two lifts. [two main staircase towers...[in] the big block and one...[in] the small block...At the base of the block [shops, offices, public houses, restaurants, a post office and police station, an existing church and possibly a cinema or assemply hall, with some provision for light industry, clinics and car parking are] proposed.\' per Builder pp382-383 |
| Proposed | 1960/02/19 | | multi-storey flats at Hutchesontown building areas B and C per Builder p388 |
| Scheme accepted | 1960/04/01 | | and work to begin in the summer per Builder p675 |
| Build/construction | 1960/05/27 | | £58,219 contract for piling work awarded to Robert M Douglas, contractors, Birmingham; £41,622 contract for lifts to Glasgow Engineers Ltd per Builder p1030 |
| Proposed | 1960/08/19 | | corporation agreed to list of tenderers: Gilbert-Ash Ltd.; Holland & Hannen and Cubitts (Scotland) Ltd.; John Liang and Son Ltd.; Leslie and Co. Ltd.; Melville, Dundas and Whitson Ltd.; Tersons Ltd.; the Taylor-Woodrow Group; Trollope and Colls Ltd. per Builder p348 |
| Build/construction | 1961/05/19 | | Holland & Hannen and Cubitts (Scotland) Ltd have begun work on the £1 1/4m redevelopment project with 400 maisonettes of 8 different types in ten 20-storey blocks, each 195 ft high and designed by Spence per Builder p977 |
| Alteration/conversion | 1988 | 1989 | Post-modern pitched roof and brick and entrance porches added |
| Destruction/demolition | 1993/09 | | |