December 2019

A City Deal project that will daylight Tollcross Burn and improve greenspace within Sandyhills Park in Glasgow's east end, is set to start in the New Year.

A City Deal project that will daylight Tollcross Burn and improve greenspace within Sandyhills Park in Glasgow's east end, is set to start in the New Year.

Glasgow City Council recently considered a report on a draft regeneration strategy for the Central District of the city centre, and approved a 10-week public consultation on the draft strategy that will begin on 6 December.

Glasgow City Council has approved the St Enoch District Regeneration Framework (DRF) and its 10-year Action Plan.

Glasgow City Council considered the findings of its recent Heritage best value review, and approved the release of funding for Glasgow City Heritage Trust.

A Glasgow City Council committee has now approved the council's Empty Homes Strategy for the city. The three-year strategy will bring hundreds of long-term empty homes back into use every year during this period, as part of the council's commitment to increasing Glasgow's housing supply.

Glasgow City Council has now approved its City Centre Living Strategy, a document which shows the way to doubling the area's population to 40,000 over the next 15 years.

Pupils from Aultmore Park Primary School headed out to Blairtummock Park today to mark the recent completion of the £7.4 million Greater Easterhouse Green Infrastructure Project which has created new greenspaces and enhanced those existing, by introducing surface water management features that will reduce the risks and impacts of flooding for the local area, and also downstream through the east end of Glasgow, whilst creating drainage capacity for housing led regeneration.

Addictions experts at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) will lead a study into Scotland's first heroin assisted treatment service.

Part of the £1.13 billion Glasgow City Region City Deal that will see investment of £27 million channelled through the Collegelands, Calton Barras project - work currently underway on a section of land bounded by Duke Street, will create an attractive development site close to the city centre.

Rapid action was taken to revive overdose victims 17 times in four months at Glasgow's Winter Night Shelter last year.

As many people start to wind down for the festive period, hundreds of home carers across Glasgow are gearing up to carry out thousands of visits to some of our most vulnerable citizens on Christmas Day and over the festive period.