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
ST ENOCH DISTRICT REGENERATION FRAMEWORK – UPDATE
The history of St Enoch Square is indicative and reflective of the development of the wider district in which it sits. Originally the western boundary of Glasgow Green with strong links to the River Clyde and the reputed burial site of St Thenew (St Enoch), over the...
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(Y)OUR RIVER PARK: YOUR CHANCE TO COMMENT ON THE PROPOSALS FOR ST ENOCH.
Glasgow is a city well renowned for its green spaces and is often referred to as the Dear Green Place. However, the city centre itself lacks such spaces. The St Enoch and Broomielaw District Regeneration Frameworks (DRFs) hope to…
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ST ENOCH DISTRICT REGENERATION FRAMEWORK – UPDATE
The St Enoch District Regeneration Framework (DRF) follows on from similar documents previously generated for both the Sauchiehall & Garnethill, and Broomielaw districts. As such it identifies a number of different strategic aims and project activities for the area....
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DISTRICT REGENERATION FRAMEWORK UPDATES
With the Council giving final approval for the Broomielaw District Regeneration Framework (DRF) and the go-ahead to continue the public engagement for the St Enoch DRF the City Centre Districts Strategy has taken a big step forward. For Broomielaw we are now preparing...
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FINAL WEEK FOR BROOMIELAW DRF CONSULTATION
There are seven more days to go until the Broomielaw District Regeneration consultation period ends. You can respond using this link. At the end of this post, you will see seven visualisations of the aspirations for Broomielaw. The visualisations were prepared by...
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BROOMIELAW DRF: CONSULTATION REMINDER
This post is an update and reminder that you have until 5 pm on Friday 5 April to comment on the draft District Regeneration Framework for Broomielaw. Click here to see the plans and fill in the questionnaire. As part of the evidence-based approach taken by the...
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