Scaffold Drops at Altyre Street

Written By

Fraser Maitland

4.8.2025 News

Scaffolding has come down to reveal the first of our three new housing blocks at Altyre Street in Glasgow’s East End. The 42-unit development is being delivered on-site by McTaggart Construction for Tollcross Housing Association.

The reveal of the carefully composed brick elevations, with generous windows, deep reveals, and precast concrete details, signals a significant moment in the delivery of this project. Underpinned by an efficient timber frame construction, the design has sense of weight and permanence – reflecting a commitment to quality and longevity in affordable housing.

With a mix of townhouses and flats, the development provides much-needed family homes in the area, designed to meet the Glasgow Standard and Housing for Varying Needs. The project also reconnects the surrounding neighbourhood, creating active streetscapes, widened pavements, and a reimagined play area – helping integrate the new homes with the existing urban fabric and nearby Tollcross Park.

Completion of the full development is expected in early 2026.

The project is delivered with a design team that includes: Fairhurst, RaeburnFarquharBowen, Reid Associates, Carbon Futures, and Principal CDM.

It’s great to see the new homes appear from behind the scaffold. Everyone in the community has been talking about the project, and how great it looks! What a difference the development has made to this area of Tollcross.

The contractor and the design team have done a brilliant job delivering this high quality scheme, on what was a really difficult site. We can’t thank them enough for the skill, hard work and dedication they’ve all committed to the project.

All of us at Tollcross are absolutely committed to getting as many people as possible into somewhere they are proud to call home!”

Chris Elliot, Chairperson Tollcross Housing Association

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