Last Orders, Next Questions: Citizens Advice Eyes Frampton's Bar
Plans are submitted to transform former pub into a new advice hub with room for other community services.
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By Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter
A former bar and nightclub on Maryhill Road could be turned into new offices for Citizens Advice.
Plans have been submitted to Glasgow City Council which ask for permission to convert the old Frampton’s bar, pictured above.
Glasgow North West Citizens Advice is coming towards the end of the lease for its current offices on Maryhill Road and is looking to move.
It would take over the ground floor of the property and intends to offer sub-lets to other “complementary organisations”.
The owners of the building previously secured permission to turn the former pool and snooker bar on the first floor into three flats, after appealing against the council’s initial decision to reject the plan.
Framptons closed as a result of the covid pandemic and, while it reopened in late 2021, an “undetected burst water pipe in one of the vacant first floor apartments caused significant damage throughout the premises”, the plans state.
They add this required “extensive stripping out and prevented the bar in its current arrangement from re-opening again”.
The application also states the smoking ban resulted in the closure of the first floor pool and snooker bar as “customers were not prepared to leave this space to smoke in the designated area outside at street level”.
It continues: “The building owner has spent a number of years marketing the ground floor as offices, a café, restaurant and has received interest from high street operators such as Ladbrokes, Costa and Starbucks, however, none have materialised into a solid proposal to move forward.”
Glasgow North West Citizens Advice, currently based at 1455 Maryhill Road, approached the owners as “the lease on their existing premises was due to expire at the end of 2025”.
It is planning to create office and interview spaces as well as staff facilities and conference and training areas. Repairs to the roof and windows and redecoration are also planned as well as changes to the layout. A new accessible entrance will be created.
The C-listed building was originally constructed as a soldiers’ home opposite the former Wyndford barracks, offering respite for soldiers and their relatives. Its closure was announced in 1959.