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To mark Glasgow Climate Week 2025, we are highlighting the growing number of projects across the city that encourage walking, wheeling and cycling - all of which help mitigate climate change by reducing our carbon footprint.

Parks and open spaces throughout Glasgow are being benefitting from an innovative £3m fund fully guided by community decisions.

A Glasgow charity has received a £50,000 boost from the Low Emission Zone Community Support Fund to breathe new life into discarded technology.

Glasgow City Council has agreed to a variation in the development agreement between the City Legacy consortium and the council for the second phase of the Athletes' Village, with this change allowing the developer to sub-lease to Cruden and CCG to build homes for sale and social rent.

The main contract for the transformation of George Square and the surrounding streets was awarded today (1 May) to Rainton Construction after a Glasgow City Council committee decision - the work on this contract will begin in June, with the Square itself expected to be complete by August 2026.

Glasgow children are getting behind their city's 850th birthday celebrations as a week-long Glasgow 850 Schools' Festival gets underway at primary schools across the city.

Glasgow City Council has teamed up with Bloomberg Philanthropies to support young people aged 15-24, and organisations working with this age group, to design and deliver environmental projects by awarding grants of up to £3,900 and a total of £70,000 available.

Glasgow City Council's Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP) helped to build over 1,000 additional affordable homes in the city in the past year.

Glasgow has been recognised by the Scottish Transport Awards 2025 - with three of our sustainable transport projects shortlisted for accolades across several categories.

The next phase in the radical redesign of Glasgow's city centre streets will begin next month.

The transformation of Glasgow's landmark George Square will shortly take a significant step forward, with works due to begin in the coming weeks.