Govan Graving Docks Regeneration

Having lain vacant and derelict for almost 40 years, the A - listed Govan Graving Docks is at the centre of ambitious plans to create a new, vibrant mixed-use neighbourhood.

Years of extensive conversations, presentations and workshops have resulted in proposals that encourage a bold and imaginative balance between creating new homes, preserving, repairing, and reopening the docks for historical ship repairing, while inviting other exciting and compatible uses including a new Riverside Park and an active travel route that will connect through the site east to west.

This flagship project provides a once in a generation opportunity to create a vibrant and completely unique neighbourhood. Situated along the southern edge of the site, the residential proposals will create 304 new homes. The new housing will provide high quality accommodation, resilient to the environmental conditions along the River Corridor, and complies with the highest environmental standards to provide low energy homes. In addition, the development will include a commercial unit, to serve the new and surrounding communities.

The remainder of the site will be transferred to community ownership, empowering local stakeholders and fostering a sense of shared responsibility for the sustained development and enrichment of the Docks.

O’DonnellBrown have worked as Masterplan Architect for the site wide vision, and Lead Consultant and Architect alongside the wider design team to secure multiple planning consents concurrently, including a unanimous planning and listed building consent for 304 new homes and commercial units in early 2025 and a planning and listed building consent for a new Riverside Park which is starting on site in April 2025, and will open up the site to the city.

Something of this scale, technical complexity and ambition could only be realised through a truly collaborative, strategic partnership approach, working with our client, the design team, city council, community, conservation and heritage organisations. With work due to start on site in April 2025, the team is now ready to undertake this transformation.