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Christina O'Neill

New plans for Cathcart House as 1960s office block to be transformed into flats

A listed office block at Cathcart House is to be transformed into flats if plans are approved by the council.

The former ScottishPower Cathcart House headquarters was granted the green light to be transformed into apartments in 2017, with homes released to the market last year.

Now its neighbouring office block, which was built in the 1960s, is set to be made into 79 flats – most of them with three bedrooms.

Plans for the second phase, lodged by Yeoman McAllister Architects, discuss revamping the external facade with a "contemporary palette of materials" to complement the neighbouring listed building.

Cathcart House (Corum Property)

It added: “While a more traditional approach towards the redevelopment of the listed building was taken, sympathetic to the architectural features of the past, this proposal seeks to retain some of those same features and express them in a more modern fashion.

"This includes the complete redesign of the external façade, utilising present day materials, retaining repetition of a consistent square form in a proportional manner.

"While the proposal is not to mimic the listed building in a pastiche type of way, its aim is to reflect some of its characteristics and create a form of relationship between the two."

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