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STREET CHANGE GLASGOW – LAUNCH EVENT
Former Old Firm players helped launch a new alternative giving scheme for people involved in street begging in Glasgow city centre on Tuesday 3 March. Ex Rangers striker, Mark Hateley, and former Celtic defender, Tosh McKinlay, joined supporters of Street Change Glasgow in Central Station to unveil one of three…
CITY CENTRE MURAL TRAIL – BOOKLET UPDATE
The City Centre Mural Trail companion booklets have always been popular with visitors and residents alike. Bright, colourful and full of information, they help people understand the scope of the project, provide background to each artwork and identify their locations. The booklets also include a short description…
GLASGOW CITY CENTRE 2050 EVENT
Presenting the City’s ambitions for the development of the city centre over the next 15-30 years. Glasgow City Council is increasingly investing in built environment transformations that promote positive health behaviours, such as active transportation and social inclusion. Representatives from Glasgow City Council Development & Regeneration Services
CENTRAL/BLYTHSWOOD DISTRICT REGENERATION FRAMEWORKS
The public consultation exercise for Central District Regeneration Framework (CDRF) closes on 14 February 2020, and the information received during this process will inform its final draft. Thereafter, this document will return to Glasgow City Council’s City Administration
CITY CENTRE LIVING STRATEGY – A SURVEY
More and more people are choosing to live in cities and especially city centres. The key drivers for this are connectivity and sustainability. Living in the heart of the city, puts you close to all the experiences that only a city centre like Glasgow can provide – work, retail, restaurants, bars, theatres, cinemas, museums …
GEORGE SQUARE SERVICING SURVEY
Glasgow City Council is exploring plans to close off the East and West sides of George Square to traffic as a first step towards achieving the recommendations of the public engagement on the future of the Square, which took place in October 2019. The Council is also evaluating the removal of parking around the square and private car traffic from the southern…
(Y)OUR CITY CENTRE
The Sauchiehall and Garnethill District Framework has been completed, and work has started on delivery. Given the success of this process, we appointed a team to work on the next four City Centre Districts – Broomielaw, St Enoch, Central and Blythswood. These will help deliver the objectives set out in the City Centre Strategy of making the city centre the place to Stay and Live, Shop and Play, Visit and Enjoy, Work and Create, Learn, Discover and Innovate and Invest and Build.
How best to look at the remaining four Districts will be assessed in 2019/2020.
The feedback from our conversations with residents, visitors, businesses, and developers is that you want a green, liveable city centre that fosters creativity and opportunity. So the Council is working with businesses, residents, institutions and public agencies to make the city centre a more people-friendly place
– a better place to live, visit and do business
moving the city centre forward
All the work that we’ll be doing to take the city centre forward over the next few years will be shaped by the City Centre Strategy and Action Plan and the City Centre Transport Strategy which were published in 2014. These strategies are our blueprint mapping out how the city centre’s streets and public spaces will be better managed and more people-friendly.
We’ll be making the city centre cleaner, greener and easier to get around on foot, by bike and public transport, with a network of green avenues linking through the city centre. Wi-fi, marketing, outdoor events, lighting and public safety will all be improved – and much more besides. Everything is geared towards delivering jobs, growth and prosperity over the next decade.
district by district
In 2015, we started to plan how to make this idea work. It’s a big job, so we split the city centre into nine recognisable ‘Districts’. We have worked with local people and businesses to identify the opportunities. By 2019 we aim to have a plan in place that will drive change over the next ten years. Find out more about what’s happening in each District.
working together
The Council’s City Centre Regeneration Team will work hard with people and organisations in each District to make that change happen. Whether you work, live, invest in or visit the city centre, the team can’t do it all on their own. We need your help to deliver change. Your help might come in a variety of forms: allowing a new business start-up cheap use of your vacant shop for a few weeks, organising a community event in a public space, helping a neighbour to tidy their front garden, or cycling and walking around town rather than driving.
The City Council will be doing its bit by making city centre streets and spaces more people- and business-friendly. We’ll do that, with you, by preparing a new plan for each District over the next few years. Please get in touch with us if you have any questions or ideas about the changing city centre.
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