Pacific Quay is an area south of the Clyde River in Glasgow, Scotland. Located in the former Plantation Quay and Princes Dock Basin. The Dock Dock The Prince is the largest on the Clyde River when it was opened by the Clyde Navigation Trust in 1900. It ceased to be used as a commercial dock by the Clyde Port Authority in the 1970s as Shipping volume using Clyde Up declined with the commencement of containers. The site was later used for the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988. The former power station and pump house, "Four Winds" used to pump water between rotundas and generate electricity for electric cranes still stands and is now home to consultant engineers and radio stations. The name 'Pacific Quay' has no historical significance, since it was created only as a marketing company after the land was reclaimed for commercial use after the closing of the Park Festival. It does not reflect the site as the ship's departure point leading to the Pacific Rim.
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Today Pacific Quay includes:
- Glasgow Science Center
- BBC Pacific Quay, BBC Scotland headquarters and studios.
- STV Group, headquarters, and studio for the Scottish ITV network.
- The Scottish capital, radio station.
- Buro Happold, consultant engineer.
- ChoiceQuote Insurance Services, taxi insurance broker.
- Digital Design Studio, research and commercial center of Glasgow School of Art Govan Graving Docks
To the west of Pacific Quay there is a former Govan Graving Docks. The Clyde Navigation Trust (now Clydeport) opened its first Graving Dock at Govan in 1875 and the second in 1886. The third and largest, with a length of 880 feet, opened in 1897. The facility was operated by Clyde Navigation Trust until 1967, when it was taken over by Alexander Stephen and Sons as a ship repair page, which lasted until 1976. It was later taken over by Clyde Dock Engineering Ltd in 1977 and continued to operate before it finally shut down in 1987. Despite forming the proposed site for Clyde Ship Trust Maritime The new Museum, a place for the conservation of the City of Adelaide and then a failed bid for Glasgow to host the Royal Yacht Britannia as a museum ship in the late 1990s, the site has been displaced for 28 years in the hands of various property development companies connected. The residential regeneration scheme has been repeatedly proposed for the site for years and then suspended.
The planning permission for the residential and commercial development of the dock was rejected by the Glasgow District Council in 1990.
In 2002-03 the Glasgow City Council was unsuccessful in financing the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Partnership Strathclyde to subsidize the proposed private sector development costs of the docks for private homes, hotels and offices.
There is currently a campaign for Graving Docks and the only remaining pump house building to be restored to create a maritime heritage park and the petition has so far attracted over 8,300 signatures. The Clyde Docks Preservation Initiative Limited was established as a non-profit company in June 2015 to form a leader organization in an effort to protect the future of Govan Graving Docks (and potentially other maritime sites in Clyde) as a maritime heritage asset. In early 2016, the organization conducted an online consultation survey on the future of the Govan dry dock site in which 92% of respondents stated the rejection of housing construction.
A detailed report produced by the Clyde Docks Preservation Initiative in November 2016 clearly demonstrates that proposals for the redevelopment of Govan Graving Docks for housing are particularly not feasible on the basis of desire/popularity, financial feasibility, technical feasibility, maritime heritage industry and concerns and A - list of site status.
Activists have called for mandatory purchase orders (CPO) from the Govan grazing dock site.
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