In January 2015 Hoskins Architects won planning approval for a high-specification housing development at Partickhill: the heart of Glasgow’s historic West End Conservation Area.

The practice undertook a feasibility study for Partickhill Bowling Club, exploring options to revitalise their clubhouse and grounds. In order to provide funds to improve its facilities, the club decided to release an unused area of the grounds for development.

Hillside Gardens Lane – the project for six townhouses and associated landscaped gardens for client Noah Developments – is now onsite. The scheme comprises a linear terraced block, which forms a transition between the existing mews buildings and surrounding tenements. 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. The façade has large vertically oriented openings with deep reveals, which evoke the fenestration of the surrounding buildings.