February 2021

Attractive raingardens have been created as part of a key Glasgow City Region City Deal project to reduce local flood risk and enhance community greenspace in the south-east of the city.

Food waste recycling is once again available for residents in flat and tenements across the whole city with collections of grey bins from backcourts beginning again in Glasgow South.

A major project that will see an attractive waterfront area created by extending the River Clyde's north bank outside the Grade A-listed Custom House, and an enhanced green space on the opposite south bank at Carlton Place, has got underway with the appointment of the multi-disciplinary design team.

Glasgow needs to make the most of its waste if the city is to challenge climate change.

Glasgow is set to begin the phased roll-out of Covid-19 asymptomatic testing aimed at identifying positive cases in communities and breaking chains of transmission.

We'll soon be starting work on Cambridge Street to enhance existing active travel infrastructure with the addition of a new, two-way cycle lane complete with soft segregation.

Around £8 million will be spent extending St Paul's High School and Carntyne Primary School to meet increasing demand for school places in the local community.

Pollok will soon benefit from new active travel provision, with pop-up cycle lanes set for Brockburn Road. The new cycle lanes which will be fitted with soft segregation where possible, will run in both directions between Peat Road and Crookston Road.

Braidcraft Road will soon benefit from new active and sustainable travel infrastructure with the addition of pop-up cycling measures, and bus/cycle/taxi lanes.

At the end of last year, we set out details of our plans to encourage connected walking, wheeling and cycling, whilst reducing or preventing access to 'through' motor traffic in the Dennistoun neighbourhood

The city centre will soon benefit from enhanced active travel provision with improvements set for a cycle lane on Howard Street. The existing (advisory), contra-flow cycle lane which runs along this one-way street will soon have soft segregation fitted where possible, between Jamaica Street and Dunlop Street.

A new Forestry and Woodland Strategy for Glasgow City Region is set to boost the number of trees in the area by a further 18 million over the next 10 years.