Plans to build almost 50 homes on part of the former Glasgow Garden Festival site are set to be decided by councillors.
The development would bring a long-vacant plot at Pacific Quay back into use, almost four decades after the landmark 1988 event helped transform perceptions of Glasgow.
Glasgow City Council’s Planning Applications Committee will consider proposals for 49 flats on land to the west of the Village Hotel at Festival Gate on Tuesday morning (3 November).
The application by Surplus Property Investments would see two blocks built on the site, alongside a ground-floor retail unit, parking and landscaping.
The development would include a mixture of two and three-bedroom flats, with 32 car parking spaces and a rooftop terrace proposed as part of the scheme.
The site sits close to the BBC Scotland headquarters and Glasgow Science Centre in an area which was once part of Prince’s Dock.
It later formed part of the grounds used for the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988.
More than four million people visited the festival during its five-month run, with the event becoming an important moment in Glasgow’s regeneration and helping change the image of the city.
Large parts of the former festival grounds were later redeveloped as Pacific Quay, including the BBC Scotland headquarters, STV studios, Glasgow Science Centre, hotels and housing.
The Festival Gate plot, however, has remained undeveloped.
Council documents previously described it as a vacant 0.48-hectare site within the wider Pacific Quay development.
The latest housing application is not the first attempt to develop the land.
Planning permission in principle was granted in 2020 for a mixed-use scheme which could have included homes, offices, shops and a cafe or restaurant.
The plans were reconsidered following changes in the commercial property market.
Documents submitted on behalf of the developer said demand for office accommodation had fallen significantly.
The revised proposal removes the planned office and cafe elements and increases the number of homes.
Architects Grant Murray Associates said the development was intended to help create a stronger street layout at Pacific Quay, where individual buildings are currently separated by large areas of open space and surface parking.
The two proposed blocks would be positioned at right angles, with a commercial unit facing the junction of Pacific Drive and Festival Gate.
The application was originally submitted in April 2025 and validated the following month.
The Festival Gate development is the first item scheduled to be considered at the meeting of the Planning Applications Committee in the morning.