The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Thursday 14 November 2024
Huge community woodland approved, Govan Graving Docks park plans, Living Rent rally, major plans for Glasgow Fort, Glasgow airport sold, Next flagship opens + two exciting restaurant updates
☁ Good Morning Glasgow. The Met Office forecasts another cloudy day with a high of 12C. Here’s Thursday’s Wrap…
🌲 Glasgow City Council is creating a new 15-hectare community woodland area in Cadder, North Glasgow as part of the Tree Plan. The green space will also feature recreational and outdoor learning spaces. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
🌳 Plans for a new public park along the River Clyde at the historic Govan Graving Docks have been submitted by Iceni Projects. Funding has been secured from the Vacant and Derelict Land Investment Programme. - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
📢 Living Rent campaigners are headed to George Square at 6.30pm tonight to call on the council to force developers to make 25% of their new developments affordable amid the housing crisis. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
↳ A council spokesperson said almost half of homes built in the city in recent years have been affordable.
🛍 Plans for a major extension to the Fort Shopping Centre that would see an additional 60,000 square feet of shop space developed have been sent to the council. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🎒 Glasgow City Parents Group’s plan to take the council to court over education cuts has failed. - Glasgow Times.
🏗 The demolition contractor for the O2 ABC has said the cast iron window frame, individual cast iron window panels, the horizontal cast flashing panel, two vertical column flashings and some of the ceramic pelmet finials from above the entrance have been salvaged. - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
✈ Glasgow and Aberdeen airports have been sold to a Canadian investment company for £1.53 billion. - Kristy Dorsey, The Herald.
📮 The Post Office branch on West Nile Street could be offloaded under a sweeping overhaul to boost postmaster pay by £250 million over five years. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
👷♂️ Keltbray Developments Ltd’s plans for a mixed-use development behind Lidl in Finnieston have been amended to replace 233 homes with 623 student beds “due to a changing market in Glasgow”. - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
🐕 A “furious” pet owner is considering legal action against a veterinary practice after she was slapped with a £17,000 bill for her dog’s care at Vets Now on North Street. - Amanda Keenan, Glasgow Times.
🏬 Homebase could be headed for partial collapse, leaving the future uncertain for its Pollokshaws store. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🔥 Three cars were torched on Jedworth Avenue, Drumchapel in the early hours of Wednesday morning, sparking a police probe. - Ryan Carroll & Jordan Shepherd, Daily Record.
👨⚖️ Alan Robertson has been jailed for a minimum of 17 years for the 2023 murder of Allan Dorris in Kennishead. - Connor Gordon & Grant McCabe, Court Reporters, Glasgow Times.
👩🔬 The University of Glasgow’s Social and Public Health Sciences Unit is to close as of 2025 due to a change in its funding model putting dozens of jobs at risk and “potentially bringing decades of expert research to an end”. - Garrett Stell, The Herald.
♻ Council planners have approved the redevelopment of the Easter Queenslie waste depot to improve recycling and “expand the range of materials that can be recycled through domestic bins”. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
🌳 The council needs £36.8 billion to meet 80% of its net zero targets, or £23.5 billion to meet 60% of the target. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
📢 Jeremy Corbyn has been announced as a speaker at a Stop The War rally at Glasgow Green on November 23. - Jonathan Blackburn, Glasgow Live.
💷 Third sector/community organisations can apply for funding from Glasgow’s Holiday Programme to deliver from Summer 25 to Spring 26. Closes December 9. - More info via Glasgow City Council.
👗 Next has opened a flagship in the former Debenhams building on Argyle Street, its first opening in the city centre for 25 years. - Morgan Carmichael, Glasgow Times.
🍴 A new restaurant, bar and lifestyle shop called Zibibbo (from the team behind Ralph & Finns, Vroni’s & Malo) is set to open in Princes Square next month. - Sarah Campbell, The Herald.
🍛 Award-winning restaurant Dishoom could be headed to Glasgow after plans were submitted to combine two units at Nelson Mandela Place (former Absurd Bird & Premier). - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
🎅 Buchanan Galleries has announced extended opening hours and a Santa’s Grotto for the festive season. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
🎄 The Style Mile Carnival will start at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall at 1pm on November 24. - People Make Glasgow, X.
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