A HISTORIC council-owned cottage in a "prime" location in a Glasgow park is to be demolished after lying abandoned for years.
The quaint cottage in Pollok Park has been empty for about 15 years and questions were previously raised about bringing it back into use due to its “prime” location.
The 132 Dumbreck Road property is part of Glasgow City Council’s common good estate.
City Property, which manages the common good properties, has now recommended demolition due to serious structural defects.
A representative told the council’s finance and audit scrutiny committee this week: “We are still in discussion with the council about getting approval for a budget to demolish the property. We are hoping to try and get that concluded shortly. I believe the council have accepted our recommendation that it is the only solution for that property.”
Earlier this year a council report said City Property had to remove “significant overgrown vegetation in and around the property” to obtain safe access to the property.
The report said: “These works and the subsequent inspection has concluded that there are considerable structural defects throughout the building.”
In a meeting last year a further report said the council had “no operational need or budget to refurbish the vacant cottage” and had agreed “in principle to a sale”.
Previously councillor Jim Kavanagh pointed out that the bungalow has been empty since 2011 with no maintenance done. He said it was not in a “hard to sell site.”
Speaking at a finance and audit scrutiny committee in September 2025, councillor Kavanagh said: “I know Pollok Park very very well. The bungalow is in a prime site. It is not in a hard to sell site. It has been empty since 2011 with absolutely no maintenance done to it whatsoever in any way shape or form.
He added: “We are at September 2025. It has been empty since 2011. Either the council sat on their hands or City Property has not been asked to sell it. Or quite simply, which I believe to be the answer, it has fallen through the net and nobody is bothered with it or picked it up.
