More than £9000 has been approved for this year’s Christmas lights in Dennistoun which will see key areas of the city lit up for the festive season.
As Glasgow prepares for Christmas 2022, the city council’s area partnerships have been organising and deciding where the festive lights should be placed.
So far it has been decided that a Christmas tree will be placed at Alexandra Park Gate along with its fixed lights. Christmas trees will also be displayed at Royston Road and Sighthill.
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An update was brought before the Dennistoun area partnership on Wednesday.
A council officer said: “You will recall that we had a paper in the June area partnership around the festive lights and I think we gave it a pretty good discussion at the time.
“Members were quite open to suggestions that you all had so I have been back to engineering colleagues and we have a proposal in terms of where the festive lights are going to go in the ward and some costs.
“There is a contribution from the council which will go towards these lights which is £3600. So if you were to approve what I have just outlined, the total cost would be £9491.”
While members unanimously agreed to the funding, chairman and councillor Allan Casey asked for future reports to be written down rather than presented verbally.
He said: “I would like to outline again and I know it can be confusing in terms of report writing but it would have been helpful to have a paper in front of us so we have the costs so we can scrutinise it.
“We have previously seen these numbers and we are happy to agree to the proposal.”
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