A ten-pin bowling company will take over a St Enoch Centre unit after a mini-golf firm pulled out.
Lane7 – which has venues across England and in Aberdeen – has been granted extended opening hours, including until 2am on Friday and Saturday, by Glasgow City Council.
It offers “a range of leisure and entertainment uses”, an application revealed – including ten-pin bowling, ping pong, mini golf and karaoke.
Treetop Adventure Golf had been lined up to takeover the vacant unit, but that interest “has unfortunately fallen away”.
When the St Enoch Trustee Company secured permission for the golf facility, the permitted opening hours were from 8am until midnight, seven days a week.
But a second application has now been approved by the council, which allows the unit to be open until 1am on Thursday and 2am on Friday and Saturday.
The initial application had been approved in February last year.
“At the time the change of use application was submitted, it was anticipated that the prospective use would be a mini-golf facility, the tenant being ‘Treetop Adventure Golf’,” the new plans stated.
“In the interim period, interest form this prospective tenant has unfortunately fallen away but the applicant has now firm interest in the unit from another operator, Lane7.
“Lane7 are an indoor adult bowling company who have a number of branches across England and one in Aberdeen.”
The company also offers food and drink to visitors. It would like to open its “first facility in Glasgow city centre at the St Enoch Centre to complement the range of new leisure and food and drink uses currently under development within the St Enoch Centre”.
St Enoch trustees’ application had argued: “Recent planning permissions within the St Enoch Centre have expanded the leisure offering and those uses were initially limited to 3am on certain days of the week, latterly revised to allow the Vue Cinema to operate on a 24-hour basis.
“Crucially in its consideration of these applications the city council has acknowledged that there are a lack of residential properties in the vicinity of the St Enoch Centre.”
