The frameworks are part of nine such documents across the city, identifying areas of significant change and opportunity, providing essential guidance for future planning and focusing on strategic priorities rather than detailed policy. Each outlines a long-term spatial vision and includes an Action Programme to support key proposals.

Glasgow City Council’s Planning team coordinates delivery of the Action Programmes, working with other officers and external stakeholders on development phasing, financing and infrastructure investment to realise the vision of each Framework. This also involves the delivery of regeneration programmes and relevant funding.

The Drumchapel Local Development Framework (LDF) was approved by the council in June 2024 and has a vision for the area: For people to feel that Drumchapel is a pleasant and well-connected place to live in and visit, where day-to-day needs are catered for and there are good opportunities for social interaction, recreation, work and education.

There are five strands within the Drumchapel LDF:

1. Drumchapel Town Centre Regeneration Project (DTCR) - the LDF continues to support the delivery of the DTCR, which received £14.98 million from the UK Government, match funded with £1.664m from the council’s Community Hubs. The DTCR project has four workstreams, all of which are progressing well: converting Garscadden House to Drumchapel Town Hall with a relocated library, community space and co-located services, with a new civic square located at the front of the building; retro-fitting the non-operational Drumchapel Park Pavilion for use as an active travel hub and community café, with an external cycling track for learners; assembling housing sites around Hecla Square, and improving the configuration of the road layout around the town centre, with improvements to the existing public realm on Kinfauns Drive.
2. Development Sites and Vacant/Derelict Land (VDL) - the council’s Housing and Planning teams, and City Property, are looking at various sites in Drumchapel, including at Belsyde Avenue (former location of the Stonedyke Centre). The VDL Site Register has been updated, and work is ongoing to identify potential uses on VDL sites. The development at Katewell Avenue (now known as “Cleddans Grove”) is currently being built out by Cruden Homes and close to completion, with 48 units anticipated. The LDF has informed and guided the marketing process conducted by City Property for a vacant site for housing adjacent to Kinfauns Drive.
3. Drumchapel Way - discussions have been ongoing with potential partners and internally about the potential development of a project for the walking route around the area known as the Drumchapel Way.
4. Net Zero Masterplan - following a successful bid for VDL funding from the Scottish Government, work has started on the Net-zero Masterplan for Drumchapel. The masterplan will take a place-based approach using nature-based solutions to create a climate-resilient neighbourhood. It has a strong focus on how nature-based solutions can unlock development within Drumchapel.
5. Environmental Designations and Protected Areas - the Garscadden Burn Local Nature Reserve (LNR) was declared in December 2024, following the declaration of the Cleddans Burn LNR a year earlier. Summerhill Woods have been protected under a Tree Preservation Order (TPO) from December 2024.

Priorities for the Drumchapel LDF in 2026 include: continued support for the development of Drumchapel Town Centre and Park; actions to unlock and support delivery of housing development on vacant sites; develop proposals for VDL activation and the development of the Drumchapel Way project; undertake an audit of historic assets, to help inform preparation of a heritage and cultural arts strategy; consider work to make improvements to the public realm around the local shopping parade and the environment around the canal.

The Greater Easterhouse Strategic Development Framework (SDF) was approved in November 2024, aiming to coordinate investment and action to significantly improve the urban form and economic vitality of the north-east of the city over the long term. This SDF has the following vision: that the residents of Greater Easterhouse will achieve prosperity and a sense of well-being through inclusive economic growth and sustainable development.

There are six key elements of the Action Programme for the SDF:

1. Town Centre Masterplan - The council’s Planning team is working with other teams and City Property to develop a masterplan for Easterhouse Town Centre and nearby vacant and underused sites to create a centre that is attractive, vibrant with a sustainable neighbourhood whose population is increasing.
2. Garthamlock Craigend and Gartloch Local Place Plan -Garthamlock Craigend and Gartloch Community Council were awarded funding to produce a Local Place Plan, which was validated and registered in May 2025. This Plan reflects the aspirations in the Greater Easterhouse SDF and will influence the next City Development Plan.
3. Re-use of Brownfield Land - City Property, with support from the council’s Planning team, have produced marketing briefs for brownfield land in Cranhill and Easterhouse (at Kerrera Place, Bellrock Crescent and Wardie Road). The council’s Housing team are working with local partners to deliver housing-led development projects in Greater Easterhouse on vacant and derelict land, and colleagues in the Planning team has supported the pre-application process for Blairtummock Destination Play to ensure alignment with the area’s SDF. This latter project is led by the Pavillion Youth Café, with support from the Seven Lochs project and the council’s Vacant and Derelict Land team.
4. Community Growth Area - a planning application for 249 homes has been submitted by Avant Homes, with its assessment being guided by the principles set out in the Greater Easterhouse SDF.
5. Clyde Metro, Liveable Neighbourhoods and Active Travel - the council’s Liveable Neighbourhoods Team produced a report in June on projects in the area which will developed as part of the city’s active travel network, and the Glasgow City Region Metro Feasibility Study is using the aims of both the Greater Easterhouse SDF and the Drumchapel LDF to improve accessibility to and across Greater Easterhouse and Drumchapel.
6. Seven Lochs Wetland Park and Green Network - the council and its Seven Lochs Wetland Park and Green Network partners continue to deliver the Water Vole Conservation Action Plan. As part of this work, the Scottish Government’s Planning Hub has been asked to help in the development of an approach to realising regeneration opportunities in Greater Easterhouse while simultaneously creating greater biodiversity and he conservation of the area’s grassland water vole population. Council officers are discussing the issue with NatureScot as they update national guidelines on grassland water voles.

Both Development Frameworks were adopted as supplementary guidance to Glasgow’s City Development Plan.

Councillor Ruairi Kelly, convener for Housing and Development at Glasgow City Council, said: “Both Drumchapel and Greater Easterhouse are areas of the city ready to take the next steps in their development in terms of new housing, public realm, Town Centre regeneration and improvements in access to active travel.  These development frameworks are created with the input of local people and stakeholders and will guide how these communities evolve in the coming years.”