Glasgow’s regeneration of “inner East” high streets, which will see town centre improvements, is expected to be completed by 2025 to 2026 council officers have confirmed.
The Barras, Duke Street and Tollcross town centre are among the areas in line for makeovers.
The scheme is part of plans to revitalise and transform Glasgow’s inner East city streets and neighbourhoods, which were approved by members of the city administration committee on Thursday.
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A final draft of the inner East Strategic Development Framework (SDF), which aims to regenerate and promote six town centres including the Barras, Duke Street, Bridgeton, Alexandra Parade, Shettleston and Tollcross Town Centre, will now be presented to Scottish Ministers for final approval.
Included in the proposals which will help to connect neighbourhoods such as Calton, Dennistoun, Parkhead, Camachie, Tollcross and Shettleston are plans to redevelop vacant sites to improve liveability, reduce traffic dominance, repopulate town centres and protect and enhance local historic assets.
The SDF also seeks to ensure that town centres benefit from better active travel and pedestrian links, improved green and open spaces and a greater choice of employment opportunities in the surrounding communities.
It is hoped this will enable local towns to develop themselves as attractive places that encourage social interaction.
During the meeting, Bailie Anthony Carroll, raised concerns about Glasgow developing high street projects on time.
Councillor Carroll said: “There are some good actions within the SDF however there is one in particular I wanted to get a bit more detail upon which was on the high street regeneration project.
“The city region funding was available from August 2020 but it was only recently that the outline design stage funding was secured to do this and it has a deadline of 2025.
“We are two years away in that process.
“Are we still confident on timescales such as this within the SDF for the high street regeneration?"
A council officer confirmed that with regards to high streets, officers were committed to creating a “full business case” by 2024 which would include part of the city deal funding.
The official said “[The high street regeneration programme] should be completed by 2025 to 2026 so we are still on target at this stage.”
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