Hoskins Architects won planning approval for a high specification housing development at Partickhill in the heart of Glasgow’s historic West End Conservation Area in January 2015. The project began when the practice undertook a feasibility study for Partickhill Bowling Club exploring options to revitalise their clubhouse and grounds. The club decided to release a currently unused area of the grounds for development in order to provide funds to improve its facilities. Hoskins Architects are now working on the building warrant application for client Noah Developments for six townhouses and associated landscaped gardens.

The proposed scheme, a linear terraced block which forms a transition between the existing mews buildings and tenements in the surrounding context. The proposal completes the unfinished urban block, enclosing and framing the existing bowling green and the clubhouse pavilion building. The scheme uses a limited palette of high quality materials, predominantly brick with contrasting lighter metal cladding at higher levels. The façade has large vertically oriented openings with deep reveals which evoke the surrounding window and bay patterns of the existing buildings.