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Supermarket is behind £20m complex plans
 
Morrison's Foprt store was the first custom-built by the supermarket in Scotland
Morrison's Foprt store was the first custom-built by the supermarket in Scotland
 
The site earmarked for the new centre
The site earmarked for the new centre
 

by Jonathan Paisley

DEVELOPERS have unveiled £20million plans to build a hotel, retail and leisure complex in the East End of Glasgow.

Supermarket giant Morrisons is behind proposals to create a 300-bedroom hotel in Easterhouse.

The guesthouse would be built alongside 80,000sq ft of shops, a 20,000sq ft leisure centre and a bar restaurant on vacant land beside its superstore near the Glasgow Fort shopping centre.

Outline plans for the ambitious development, earmarked for a site off Westerhouse Road, have been submitted to the council who will study the masterplan in the autumn.

Glasgow Fort, which opened to shoppers in October 2004, is already in line for a £25m expansion next year.

Backers of the Morrisons' plan hope further development will regenerate the whole of Easterhouse.

Peter Carus, senior planner at the supermarket's agents GVA Grimley, said: "Morrisons has a clear interest in Easterhouse and has made a long-term commitment to the area.

"It is considered that the current proposals will contribute to the overall delivery of the regeneration of the area.

"Further development of this site will create a strong link between Glasgow Fort and the wider town centre."

The Morrisons at Auchinlea Way became the chain's first custom-built Scots supermarket when it opened in June 2005.

The Fort, which lies just off the M8, attracts around 12m shoppers. It's hoped the expansion will create 500 jobs by the time it's completed at the end of 2009.

The centre already offers a range of shopping across 400,000sq ft of floor space. The refurbishment will create an extra 175,000sq ft in the horse shoe-shaped park.

Last October, Premier Inn announced plans to build a £5.5m hotel at Glasgow Business Park.

It will be located in the Swinton area of the city, between Easterhouse and the M8.

A spokesman for Morrisons said: "We have applied to gain planning permission for the last piece of land at our Auchinlea site, which forms part of the new Town Centre Action Plan.

"This is all part of completing the Auchinlea development."

Publication date 14/07/08

Posted by: Aunt Sally, Glasgow on 2:54pm Mon 14 Jul 08
Supermarket giant Morrisons is behind proposals to create a 300-bedroom hotel in Easterhouse.


Who in their right mind would want to stay there?????



wonder if this will get as many complaints as the whole TEsco thing
Posted by: Eh?, Glasgow on 3:14pm Mon 14 Jul 08
Can we expect to see holidays in Easterhouse soon?
New York, London, Paris, Milan, Easterhouse. Book now for your "exciting" city break
Posted by: Aunt Sally, Glasgow on 4:19pm Mon 14 Jul 08
there will be nothing in the hotel coz it will all have been stolen !!

See the sights of easterhouse !!

Burnt out flats, the local offie, children oot their faces !! street fights !

exciting stuff indeed

Posted by: gazboi, Easterhosue and proud! on 7:02pm Mon 14 Jul 08
Aunt Sally wrote:
there will be nothing in the hotel coz it will all have been stolen !! See the sights of easterhouse !! Burnt out flats, the local offie, children oot their faces !! street fights ! exciting stuff indeed
I hink this is offensive!!

New schools have been built new houses are beening built. The fort has one of the best security repuations. In the uk!! They got an award for it aswell if yuou check facts!!. So the comment on everything will get stolen is only because daft people like yourself Will do it for us. cause why would we get a hotel here when wee live here! no commen sense have you!

And I guess you has no common sense again as areas have to be improved!! all the time. maybe you are jelous because your area is no getting much attension. Or else you are to posh with your head up your ****

And oi am a 22 year old male lived her all my life and am going to uni to do a fashion degree course so a guess wee canny all be out our faces! and fighting in the streets as you so call say!!!!

And if you live here and don't like it as much as you say! move then!! no one is stopping you!!
Posted by: The Wise One, Glasgow on 8:17pm Mon 14 Jul 08
I had to check the calendar to make sure it wasn't April 1st.

Hotel in Easterhouse? Don't they mean refuge shelter.

And don't they already have a hotel...............
...Barlinnie
Posted by: thistlemad, Ayrshire on 8:27pm Mon 14 Jul 08
Gazboi

Get off your high horse . Easterhouse was, is and always will be a doss house ........ get over it.
Ok they are building new houses etc etc etc ,,,,,, BUT THEY MOVE THE SAME MANKY BA5TARDS BACK INTO THEM!!!!!
Like eveywhere else there is good and bad, but please don`t insult us by trying to convince us that ALL the Glasgow housing estates are great places to live .. most of us were brought up on them, just like you.
I drove a bus through Easterhouse, and it was a big thing to get out with your windows intact ..... a thing which is still commonplace.
By the way, a "fashion" degree is NOT a REAL degree ....... certainly not a 22 year old male .... unless..............
... nah, Im not stooping that low............. JUST IN CASE!!!!!
Posted by: The Wise One, Glasgow on 8:40pm Mon 14 Jul 08
gazboi wrote:
Aunt Sally wrote: there will be nothing in the hotel coz it will all have been stolen !! See the sights of easterhouse !! Burnt out flats, the local offie, children oot their faces !! street fights ! exciting stuff indeed
I hink this is offensive!! New schools have been built new houses are beening built. The fort has one of the best security repuations. In the uk!! They got an award for it aswell if yuou check facts!!. So the comment on everything will get stolen is only because daft people like yourself Will do it for us. cause why would we get a hotel here when wee live here! no commen sense have you! And I guess you has no common sense again as areas have to be improved!! all the time. maybe you are jelous because your area is no getting much attension. Or else you are to posh with your head up your **** And oi am a 22 year old male lived her all my life and am going to uni to do a fashion degree course so a guess wee canny all be out our faces! and fighting in the streets as you so call say!!!! And if you live here and don't like it as much as you say! move then!! no one is stopping you!!
Got to be a wind up.
Posted by: silvixen, Glasgow on  Tue 15 Jul 08
Yawn heard all this when they were going to build the hotel in the Gorbals and guess what it hasnt been burnt out, robbed or pillaged. So what they built the sodding fort up here and thats still in one piece.
Get over yourselves Glasgow will never be able to lift her head up while her own residents take this attitude.
Posted by: tobester, summerston, glasgow on 11:11am Tue 15 Jul 08
Great idea this, in the run up to 2014, let visitors see the real face of glasgow..junkies, jakes, neds and thieving wasters.

Glasgow...whas like us?


@Aunt Sally - Doubt there will be a demo on the scale of Tesco, as Morons...err sorry Morrisons are a really great company (*insert sarcastic smilie*)
Posted by: Aunt Sally, Glasgow on 11:24am Tue 15 Jul 08
gazboi wrote:
Aunt Sally wrote: there will be nothing in the hotel coz it will all have been stolen !! See the sights of easterhouse !! Burnt out flats, the local offie, children oot their faces !! street fights ! exciting stuff indeed
I hink this is offensive!! New schools have been built new houses are beening built. The fort has one of the best security repuations. In the uk!! They got an award for it aswell if yuou check facts!!. So the comment on everything will get stolen is only because daft people like yourself Will do it for us. cause why would we get a hotel here when wee live here! no commen sense have you! And I guess you has no common sense again as areas have to be improved!! all the time. maybe you are jelous because your area is no getting much attension. Or else you are to posh with your head up your **** And oi am a 22 year old male lived her all my life and am going to uni to do a fashion degree course so a guess wee canny all be out our faces! and fighting in the streets as you so call say!!!! And if you live here and don't like it as much as you say! move then!! no one is stopping you!!
You said "So the comment on everything will get stolen is only because daft people like yourself Will do it for us. cause why would we get a hotel here when wee live here! no commen sense have you!"

are you that thick !! i meant the scum would steal from the hotel !!

Think my area is getting plenty of attention just now and im so not posh !!

now go back to your stitching little boy!
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