A SUPERSTORE, shops, a restaurant and more than 80 houses will be built in Glasgow's East End as part of a £120million development.

A SUPERSTORE, shops, a restaurant and more than 80 houses will be built in Glasgow's East End as part of a £120million development.

Persimmon has applied to Glasgow City Council for planning permission to build on a site near The Fort mall, just off the M8.

The site, about the size of four football fields, is between Gartloch Road and Findochty Street, Garthamlock.

It is also close to the new National Indoor Sports Arena being built for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

The development will incorporate a nursery, a nursing home and a games court, which will become part of the existing Garthamlock Comm-unity Centre.

A total of 22 two- bedroom and three-bedroom homes and 66 two-bedroom apartments are planned.

This will be the last phase of the firm's work in the area, which includes recently-built homes in estates called The Beeches and The Glen.

The firm won prizes at the Homes for Scotland Awards 2007 for its 118 affordable houses in the area which were handed over to housing association Home Scotland.

However, as reported in the Evening Times, people who were due to move into the houses from their run-down blocks were caught up in a legal dispute after it was discovered the city council failed to change ownership documents with the Land Registry of Scotland after the land was transferred back to them from Glasgow Housing Association.

Due to this, Home Scotland was unable to buy the houses from Persimmon.

A spokesman for Home Scotland confirmed this has now been sorted out and that tenants have moved in.

The new planning application is now with the city council.