Glasgow’s city centre offers residents and visitors an exciting mix of shopping, restaurants, night-life, theatres, galleries and much more. There will be lots of opportunities as people and businesses in the city centre take advantage of the ever-increasing pace of change in the way we live, shop, work and play. The city centre, which accounts for 34% of Glasgow’s output, will continue to provide opportunities to make the city centre a place where more people want to live.
Some of the opportunities are familiar, how to maximise vacant sites, empty shops and buildings, underused upper floors, underused plots of land, how to improve the look and feel of the city centre including traffic and emissions.
The City Centre is made up of nine distinct districts, and we will produce District Framework reports for each of them.
(Y)OUR CITY CENTRE DISTRICTS
(Y)OUR PROJECT
Glasgow City Council have appointed a team led by MVRDV and Austin-Smith:Lord, supported by Space Syntax and a multidisciplinary team, to develop with stakeholders and local communities, Regeneration Frameworks for four districts within the City Centre.
This exciting opportunity will focus on districts of Broomielaw, Blythswood, St Enoch and Central as detailed in the Glasgow City Centre Strategy and Action Plan 2014-2019.
“The vision is to create a vibrant, playful, liveable City Centre”
(Y)OUR TIMELINE
We are currently working on a Baseline report for the 4 districts as a whole, but we will soon start to engage with local people, agencies and stakeholders to listen, learn and identify the best way to bring about sustainable regeneration to each of the individual districts.
(Y)OUR STORIES
DISTRICT REGENERATION FRAMEWORK UPDATE
We are currently consulting with all Council stakeholders on the content of the St Enoch District Regeneration Framework (DRF) which has been developed by the Austin-Smith:Lord team. This consultation will be complete by the 19 October 2018. As soon as we have...
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(Y)OUR ST ENOCH: UPDATE
The St Enoch report is almost ready for internal consultation. Once all the relevant Council departments have had the opportunity to feedback on the draft Regeneration Framework we will take this forward and look to get approval to formally consult with the public.
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(Y)OUR BROOMIELAW: UPDATE
Broomielaw has such an important part to play in the regeneration of the city centre. Work has progressed steadily on the District Regeneration Framework and we are close to seeking approval to formally consult with the public on the content of the report and its action plan.
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(Y)OUR SAUCHIEHALL: UPDATE
The Regeneration Framework for this District was approved in 2016. Since then a great deal of work has been done to get the Avenues project on Sauchiehall Street started and delivered. We expect this work will be complete early in the New Year. The Framework...
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(Y)OUR CITY – A PUBLIC LECTURE BY PROFESSOR WINY MAAS
Professor Winy Maas, a founding Director of MVRDV, Rotterdam based architects and urbanists, gave a public lecture in Glasgow on Tuesday 7th February 2016. Over 400 people attended the event in the St. Vincent
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(Y)OUR CENTRAL – EMERGING IDEAS
Following the Setting the Agenda Event in May, the Emerging Ideas event on 22 June will allow you to review initial ideas, help refine proposals and inform a prioritised action plan for a new Central District Regeneration Framework.
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