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Hutchesontown is an inner-city area in Glasgow, Scotland. Mostly residential, it is situated directly south of the River Clyde and forms part of the wider historic Gorbals district, which is covered by the Southside Central ward under Glasgow City Council.

Hutchesontown
  • Scottish Gaelic: Baile MacUisdein
  • Scots: Hutchesontoun

Aerial view of the neighbourhood (2017)
Hutchesontown
Location within Glasgow
OS grid referenceNS594636
Council area
  • Glasgow City Council
Lieutenancy area
  • Glasgow
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townGLASGOW
Postcode districtG5 0
Dialling code0141
PoliceScotland
FireScottish
AmbulanceScottish
UK Parliament
  • Glasgow Central
Scottish Parliament
  • Glasgow Shettleston
List of places
UK
Scotland
Glasgow
55.847119°N 4.243909°W / 55.847119; -4.243909

The area is linked to Glasgow Green public park on the north side of the river by St. Andrew's Suspension Bridge and King's Bridge. At its north-western edge, Albert Bridge is the closest crossing point towards Glasgow city centre. In McNeill Street, Hutchesontown has one of Glasgow's original Carnegie libraries, deftly designed by the Inverness-born architect James Robert Rhind. James Stokes, recipient of the Victoria Cross, was from the area.


Comprehensive Development Area


Following the Second World War, Hutchesontown was declared a Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) in 1957, in the aftermath of the Bruce Report.[1][2] This called for the mass gentrification of the area which took the form of slum clearance and the replacement of overcrowded, insanitary tenement housing with new homes in high rise tower blocks.[3] The area became almost unrecognisable from its previous appearance, with blocks of tenements swept away along with several Victorian and Edwardian-era churches and civic buildings which in later times would have been considered to be of architectural merit.[4]

Hutchesontown was, in effect, used as a testing ground for similar schemes around the city. It was decided to divide the area into five "zones" which were given to different architects to implement a mixture of different schemes.




See also



References


  1. Hutchesontown Housing (Glasgow City Archives, Department of Architectural and Civic Design, 1961), The Glasgow Story
  2. Lecture: Unbuilt Glasgow – The History & Impact of the Bruce Report, Fergus Sutherland & David Martin, Glasgow City Heritage Trust, 15 March 2017
  3. Hutchesontown: Housing, Everyday Life & Wellbeing over the long term, University of Glasgow
  4. Hutchesontown Gorbals - Architecture and History, Scotcities
  5. "Tower Block UK: Hutchesontown-Gorbals CDA Area B". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  6. "Buildings in Glasgow: Hutchesontown-Gorbals". Emporis. Archived from the original on 28 February 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  7. "Tower Block UK: Hutchesontown-Gorbals CDA Area C". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  8. "Woman dies in demolition blast". The Herald. 13 September 1993. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  9. Hutchesontown C: it went down with a bang and took a human life with it, Abandoned Spaces, 4 June 2018
  10. Hutchesontown / Gorbals Area D, Dictionary of Scottish Architects
  11. "Tower Block UK: Hutchesontown-Gorbals CDA Area D". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  12. "Two tower blocks are demolished". BBC News. 26 February 2006. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  13. 'I won't let them split us up': Friend's promise to Gorbals neighbour as demolition looms, Glasgow Times, 26 November 2020
  14. Glasgow high-rise tenants being moved from fire-risk flats set to get new homes, Glasgow Live, 22 November 2021
  15. "Tower Block UK: Hutchesontown-Gorbals CDA Area E". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  16. Double demolition for Glasgow Gorbals tower blocks, BBC News, 21 July 2013





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