Visualisation of the Cook St development: a planted boulevard between new apartment buildings, with people walking and cycling

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Cook Street. A new neighbourhood for Glasgow's south bank.

A major regeneration in the heart of the city: over a thousand new homes built around a shared urban garden, with commercial and public space woven in.

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The project

Cook St takes 4.7 acres of vacant industrial land in Tradeston and turns it back into a piece of the city: homes for sale and rent, student residences, shops and cafés, arranged around a sequence of public gardens. Ten minutes on foot from Buchanan Street, on the south bank of the Clyde.

1,000+

New homes

4.7 acres

Brownfield site

500 m

From the city centre

Linked green spaces

Visualisation of the central garden at Cook St, with wildflower planting, a cherry tree in blossom and residents on the lawn

The Urban Garden

The masterplan starts with the spaces between the buildings.

Eight green spaces run through the site: a central park, a planted boulevard, allotments, play areas, courtyards and rooftop gardens. Trees, wildflowers and rain gardens are designed for biodiversity first, managing stormwater, softening noise and bringing wildlife back to a part of the city that has been hard surface for a century.

Visualisation of the Cook St development seen from street level, with brick-fronted apartment blocks and cyclists passing — Arriving from Centre Street.

Visualisation of the central garden at dusk, with lit windows and fireworks over the rooftops — The central garden at dusk.

The place

Tradeston, on the south bank of the Clyde.

Tradeston took its name from the Trades House of Glasgow, which bought this stretch of the south bank in 1790. For two centuries it was a district of mills, warehouses and works, and some of its red-brick landmarks still stand at the edge of the site.

Now the city is moving back across the river. Buchanan Wharf, completed in 2021, brought one of Scotland's largest office developments and hundreds of new homes to the waterfront a few minutes' walk away. Cook St sits beside the West Street subway station, with Glasgow Central and every city-centre university within easy reach.

Glasgow has declared a housing emergency. Tradeston has the land, the transport and the momentum to help answer it. Cook Street is built to do exactly that.

The red-brick former paint warehouses on Tradeston Street, Glasgow — The former paint warehouses on Tradeston Street, neighbours to the site.

One site, four kinds of life.

Six blocks around shared gardens, stepping from four storeys at the street edge to a single taller building at the centre of the site.

Homes

Apartments for city living

Homes for sale and for rent, designed for a mix of ages, households and incomes — city living that is both aspirational and affordable.

Student living

Purpose-built student homes

Within walking distance of every city-centre university, easing pressure on Glasgow's housing at a price students can manage.

Streets & commerce

Active ground floors

Room for shops, cafés, leisure and community uses, keeping the streets busy through the day and naturally watched at night.

Public realm

Gardens at every level

A central park, planted boulevard, allotments and play space, linked by safe walking and cycling routes in a low-car neighbourhood.

Where it stands

The masterplan was designed by architects Sheppard Robson and secured planning permission in principle from Glasgow City Council in August 2025, setting the scale and design principles for a phased development. The full design thinking is set out in the Design & Access Statement.

View the design & access statement

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