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Cumbernauld Housing: Residential Building

Housing in Scottish New Town, Scotland, UK – 20th Century Scottish Homes

post updated 16 February 2025

Cumbernauld Towers News

Cumbernauld Housing News

Demolition proposal for 12 high-rise blocks in Cumbernauld boosted after the Scottish Government provided up £3.2m to buy out the owners.

Sanctuary Cumbernauld Housing association is behind the £70m project to demolish the 1960s high-rises and replace them with 440 homes for affordable rent.

In 2011 72% of the high-rise residents voted in favour of the plans to demolish these tower block buildings. The delay in demolition was caused by the need to buy out the 100 people who still own their homes in the blocks.

16 January 2012

Cumbernauld Housing

Photos of Cumbernauld Property:

Cumbernauld housing: Scottish New Town property

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Cumbernauld is a large town in the historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the tenth most-populous locality in Scotland and the most populated town in North Lanarkshire, positioned in the centre of Scotland’s Central Belt.

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Cumbernauld was designated as the site for a New Town on 9 December 1955. This led to rapid expansion and building for about 40 years until the town became established as the largest in North Lanarkshire.

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The first new housing became available in 1958. An additional 3,638 acres (1,472 ha) was added to the designated town area on 19 March 1973 to accommodate a revised target population of 70,000.

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Location: south of centre

All Cumbernauld house photos © Adrian Welch

Cumbernauld Building Designs

Contemporary Cumbernauld Property Designs – key architectural selection below:

Cumbernauld Shopping Centre
Cumbernauld Shopping Centre
photo © Adrian Welch

Cumbernauld – Introduction

Cumbernauld College

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Glasgow Housing Designs

Glasgow Housing

Glasgow Residential Property Designs – recent Strathclyde architecture:

Glasgow Harbour, Partick, west of the city centre
Design: RMJM Architects
Glasgow Harbour

Homes for the Future, East End
Design: RMJM Architects
Homes for the Future

Student housing at 249 West George Street
Architect: Mosaic Architecture + Design
249 West George Street Glasgow student flats

Argyle Street Housing, 1073 Argyle Street, Finnieston, West End
Architects: Elder & Cannon, Glasgow

Hutchie Housing, Gorbals, south of the city centre
Design: PagePark Architects

Bridgeton Flats Muslin Street

Cart Street Housing, Clydebank

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Glasgow Building Designs

Contemporary Glasgow Property Designs – recent architectural selection below from this website:

Candleriggs Square Apartments Merchant City
Candleriggs Square Apartments Merchant City, Glasgow
image courtesy of architects practice

Burrell Museum – Art Fund Museum Of The Year 2023
Burrell Museum Glasgow building interior
photo © Janie Airey Art Fund 2023

Glasgow Armadillo

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