Gartloch Development

Thomson and Sandiland's competition winning design of 1889 for the design of Gartloch Hospital provided purpose built accommodation within a carefully planned parkland estate. It embodied the spirit of protection, seclusion, observation and treatment sought by the commissioning board in their original brief. The buildings of Gartloch Hospital are important both for their significant influence throughout Britain on the later development of mental health care, and also for their spatial arrangement within the landscape and for their inherent architectural quality which has resulted in their Listing.

The strategic plan proposes the creation of a new village at Gartloch comprised of several hamlets arranged around a village cent.-, to form a hierarchy of small scale settlements.  Each hamlet is seen as a small scale, low key intervention within the landscape, integrated as far as possible with the existing topography, tree belts and specimen trees. In addition it is hoped that each hamlet will have a unique character and its own sense of place which could be achieved through varied theming of the architectural and landscaping treatments within each area.