Plan to build 82 new flats

Aug 14 2008 by Shirley Bartynek, Hamilton Advertiser

THE DALZELL Workspace building is set to be transformed into flats.

North Lanarkshire Council’s Planning and Transportation Committee are today (Thursday) expected to give the go-ahead to CIS Ltd/Motherwell Town Centre Partnership to demolish the former Dalziel Annexe School building to make way for 82 flats.

The complex in Mason Street is better known now as the Dalziel Workspace and is a large three-storey building which was transformed into a business centre with office space and a workshop in the 1980s.

Under the latest plans, the applicant proposes to demolish the existing building, retaining the existing stone wall and railing boundary to develop the site into flats with a provision for 108 parking spaces.

The flats would wrap around West Hamilton Street, Watson Street, and Mason Street.

The planning application attracted one letter of objection from the Royal Mail Group.

They voiced their concerns in relation to their Post Office and delivery yard at 26 Brandon Arcade.

They objected on the grounds that the proposal would generate a significant increase in traffic to the area which they say in a report to the committee “would be to the detriment of the operation of Post Office delivery vehicles.”

They also expressed concern about the potential negative impact caused by construction work.

However, North Lanarkshire planning officials said in their report to the committee that “construction work is a natural consequence of development which can be effectively controlled through separate environmental health legislation.”

And they have recommended that the application be approved subject to the appropriate conditions.