PLANS have been lodged for a £3million new housing project for Govanhill.

Construction company CCG has submitted a planning application for 22 flats to be build on the site of a former church.

If permission is granted, the properties will be for social rent from Govanhill Housing Association.

John McLardie, chairman of Govanhill Housing Association, said: “The Association is always looking at opportunities to provide modern, sustainable and affordable social housing that meets the needs of the community."

The proposed properties are one-bedroom to four-bedroom flats that would be built on Inglefield Street.

Flats would fill the space left vacant following the demolition of the modernist church, Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, in 2014.

CCG, working with MAST Architects, say the flats are designed to be environmentally friendly.

If planning permission is granted, work on the site would begin in the summer of 2017.

Chairman and CEO of CCG, Alastair Wylie, said: “CCG is delighted to be working with MAST Architects on behalf of Govanhill Housing Association to bring high quality, sustainable homes for social rent to Govanhill.

"The homes will be constructed using a Closed Panel Timber System that is manufactured in our state of the art Off-Site Manufacturing (OSM) facility, which will ensure a faster speed of delivery and long term environmental efficiency benefits to the residents.”

Govanhill Housing Association has submitted a funding application to Glasgow City Council for £1.6m of the £3m total.

Work has recently begun on a £5.5m housing development from the housing association on a site at the corner of Victoria Road and Butterbiggans Road.

Some 42 affordable homes are being built in a bid to help ease chronic over-crowding in the area.

The development involves a seven-storey corner building that descends into shorter blocks.

Designed by by Glasgow-based Collective Architecture, the development will include two and three bedroom family flats, as well as a number of larger family homes and amenity flats for elderly people, with wheelchair access for some.

It is supported by £3m grant funding from Glasgow City Council and the Scottish Government.

The site was occupied by a cinema until 1986 and also a petrol station, before more recently being used as a public art space.

Mr McLardie added: "As with our new-build site currently under way at the corner of Victoria Road and Butterbiggins Road, this site at Inglefield Street offers the potential for the Association to add more new, energy-efficient housing to its existing stock and complements the other regeneration work we are undertaking in South-West Govanhill.”