Oatlands, Glasgow

Oatlands is an area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated south of the River Clyde. It is part of the Gorbals historic area, and its boundaries are Hutchesontown and the Southern Necropolis cemetery to the west, Polmadie to the south (across the UK M74 motorway and West Coast Main Line railway), Shawfield in the town of Rutherglen to the east, and Glasgow Green public park to the north (across the River Clyde). Oatlands had been connected to the Green via Polmadie Bridge but this was dismantled in 2015 due to structural safety concerns.HistoryUntil the 1990s, the area was characterised by four-storey sandstone tenements built at the end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th. A continuous line of tenements faced Richmond Park, opened in 1899, across busy Rutherglen Road, one of Glasgow's main arterial routes.After a long process of demolitions, work started in April 2005 on a comprehensive redevelopment scheme to create a new neighbourhood consisting of around 1,510 houses (1,217 or 81% new private and 293 or 19% for social rental, 213 of which are new). The award-winning project was promoted by ppGlasgow City Council. The lead developer is Bett Homes with involvement from the Link and Glasgow Housing Associations, the local housing stock of the latter now being owned and managed by the New Gorbals Housing Association. By September 2007, part of the traffic by-pass (including a new Boulevard), 44 private houses and 172 social-rented dwellings had been constructed.