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Sarah Hilley

Glasgow council launches £50 million bid to build garden covering M8

Plans to build a garden on top of a section of the M8 in Glasgow are getting closer to reality as council bosses try to win £50 million for the scheme.

They are preparing a bid for UK Government Levelling Up funding, which would create a public space cap over the motorway between Sauchiehall Street and Bath Street.

The council said it would make a “peaceful green space” and the “proposal is to completely reconfigure the Charing Cross area in terms of transport and public realm.”

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