Housing at Main Street, Coatbridge
In April 2021, North Lanarkshire Council appointed our team to explore the residential development potential of a key town-centre site at Academy Street, Main Street and Church Street. The site included a fire-damaged gap site and a number of vacant properties, including a Category B-listed former bank. Redevelopment was essential to halt further decline and to reinstate this important frontage along one of Coatbridge’s main arterial routes.
Our approach sought to build on the strengths of the existing area while enhancing the built fabric and creating a renewed sense of place. The proposals deliver 49 new homes for social rent, balancing higher density town-centre living with accessible amenity space. Homes are designed to Housing for Varying Needs standards and include winter gardens that provide acoustic and thermal performance, supporting high-quality living in a busy urban environment.
The scheme combines adaptive reuse with carefully scaled new-build blocks, drawing on local vernacular forms and a robust brick palette that sits comfortably alongside the surrounding Victorian streetscape. By rebalancing building typologies and reinstating the street edge, the development helps knit the fragmented site back into the town, revitalising the community with modern, desirable and sustainable homes.
This project exemplifies our expertise in town-centre regeneration, retrofit, and social housing delivery on complex urban sites — a track record we continue to expand in collaboration with local authorities and housing associations across Scotland.