Wyndford Road high-rise flats demolition to alter Glasgow skyline

Glasgow’s skyline is due to be transformed on Sunday with the demolition of three blocks of high-rise flats.

The 26-storey blocks at Wyndford Road, in the north of the city, will be brought down using explosives to make way for nearly 400 new homes.

An exclusion zone will be in force on Sunday morning and displaced residents will be offered breakfast and lunch at an evacuation centre.

A fourth high-rise block will also be taken down as part of the redevelopment using a piece-by-piece demolition technique.

The Wyndford estate was built in the 1960s in the Maryhill area of the city, on the site of the old Glasgow City barracks.

It included four 26-storey blocks and several smaller high-rise buildings, at one point providing homes for around 6,000 people.

Some residents had campaigned against the demolition plan, arguing instead for a retrofit option.

But owners Wheatley Homes housing association claimed the flats were not fit for purpose and could not feasibly be altered to meet modern floor space standards.

The 600 flats in the high-rise blocks will be replaced by 386 affordable homes.

The masterplan for the redevelopment includes a community hub with a hall, café, meeting rooms and computer access.

Nearby residents who will have to leave their homes during the demolition are being offered breakfast and lunch at a secondary school which is being used as an evacuation centre.

People who live within the exclusion zone will also receive Tesco gift vouchers, worth £100, which will be issued at the evacuation centre.

St Gregory’s Catholic Church, located nearby on Kelvindale Road, has had its stained glass windows covered with protective sheeting.

The church will be closed and the 10:00 service will take place instead at St Charles’s at Kelvinside Gardens.

Misting systems will be used to minimise dust after the demolition but residents are advised to shut windows, keep pets indoors and cover fish ponds and rabbit hutches.

People with respiratory conditions are advised to avoid the area.

After the blasts, clean-up teams will carry out street sweeping and jet washing.