FINNIESTON favourite Alchemilla is looking to expand by adding an outdoor dining area.

The Argyle Street eatery has submitted a planning application to Glasgow City Council, requesting permission to form an al fresco zone.

It follows a previous bid in September last year, which was refused due to concerns over the size of the outdoor seating area and the lack of storage space for tables and chairs.

The company say their plans would leave a two metre pathway for pedestrians and provision for storing tables and chairs has been created within the basement.

Operating hours for the dining area would be from 10am to 11pm from Sunday to Thursday and from 10am until midnight on Friday and Saturday.

The development would be at the front of the premises.

Planning regulations state when an outdoor food and drink area is located outwith a town centre, it is not directly overlooked by a residential property.

However, the application states: “As with almost all of the urban area within the city boundary, ground floor uses are overlooked by residential accommodation and it is the very nature of Glasgow, a city of tenements to have a wide range of disparate uses on the ground floor of tenements.”