Historic North Glasgow pub may become Citizens Advice Bureau
The service is bidding to move into the ground floor of the building.
Papers revealed that a previous application for three flats was rejected by the council.
This time, Citizens Advice is proposing to set up a location in the listed building, as well as sublet it to complementary organisations currently based at 1455 Maryhill Road.
Documents stated the site was "designed by architects Malcolm Stark and Rowntree in three phases between 1892 and 1899, originally built as soldiers' home and occupies the site opposite the site of the former Wyndford Barracks."
Later, it was turned into Framptons, a pub and snooker bar.
Despite the pool hall closing in 2006, after the indoor smoking ban, the bar remained open.
This closed in 2020, due to the Covid pandemic and failed to reopen successfully.
Historic North Glasgow pub may become Citizens Advice Bureau (Image: Sourced) Pool hall (Image: Sourced) Historic photograph of the site, 1907 (Image: Sourced)
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The application said: "The building owner has spent a number of years marketing the ground floor as offices, a café, restaurant and has received interest from high street operators such as Ladbrokes, Costa and Starbucks, however, none have materialised into a solid proposal to move forward.
"The Citizens Advice Bureau approached the owners as the lease on their existing premises was due to expire at the end of 2025 and following a lengthy development of design for an office layout, it was ultimately decided to lease the entire ground floor and offer space to their sister organisations.
"The proposals are to create office spaces, interview spaces, staff facilities, conference and training areas within the entire ground floor.
"The access will be from all three current entrance positions, however, due to a change of level, a new accessible entrance has been formed to the north lane, which also serves as a means of escape."
Glasgow City Council's planning officers are evaluating the application and a decision is expected by
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