Crown Street is a brownfield site bounded by Cathcart Road, Caledonia Road and Lawmoor Street and Ediston are currently developing a new Retail Park on the southern part of the site, next door to the new residential development.
The residential development will comprise five blocks of apartments with high quality external materials and finishes, in a contemporary architectural style. A mix of 1,2 and 3 bedroom apartments will be provided all with internal living spaces to reflect a modern lifestyle with large open plan areas offering superb views of the city from generous window openings and balcony spaces,
particularly from upper levels. The development will also incorporate large areas
of amenity space and high quality landscaping, gardens and planting throughout.
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One of the first aspects of work that will be completed at our residential development on Crown Street and Cathcart Road will be to complete a programme of Archaeological works on site. The site was once home to the Govan Ironworks, constructed between 1830 and 1840 by the Dixon family, complete with the world’s first ever purpose built blast furnace. In fact there are thought to be the remnants of 6 blast furnaces still situated on the site below the current ground levels – vast structures each with walls more than half a meter thick. A scheme of investigation and recording of these structures has been agreed with West of Scotland Archaeology Services, to be implemented during the early stages
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