February 8 2024

Drumchapel town centre is to benefit from a new public plaza, improved transport and new homes after receiving funding from the UK government's Levelling Up fund.

Councillors will press ahead with the £16.5m initiative after agreeing to top up the £14.98, award with an additional £1.664m, opening the way to a raft of focussed improvements including community facilities, flood defences and public realm centred on Kinfauns Drive.

Council leader Susan Aitken, said: “I’m delighted that having worked hard to secure this funding the long-overdue regeneration of Drumchapel town centre will soon be going ahead.

“The people of Drumchapel have every right to expect that their town centre meets their needs and aspirations for a vibrant and healthy environment."

A design team will now be assembled to begin works by spring 2025. 

4 Comments

#1 Posted by Fat Bloke on Tour on 9 Feb 2024 at 10:20 AM

Mental budget for a few lampposts and some trendy road markings.

How much will disappear into Bearsden and beyond by way of the usual middle class welfare conduits?

File under student level politics -- all pr / all big numbers / all ET hype with nothing about delivering meaningful change over the coming years.

All talk and no thought of maintenance.

#2 Posted by Gandalf the Pink on 12 Feb 2024 at 13:24 PM

If the images could be updated with the inclusion of missing slabs replaced with black tarmac infills, please? A sense of reality is important.

#3 Posted by Roddy_ on 12 Feb 2024 at 21:22 PM

No masterplan or design codes to underpin this investment spatially. It is classic cataclysmic money (see Jane Jacobs).

Where is/was the money to feed (as Jacobs says) the 'irrigation systems, bringing life-giving streams to feed steady, continual growth'? It just isn't there.

Like much of the Darwinian system of 'levelling' up, this will not bring about meaningful and lasting change, it is a mere sticking plaster and the Drum will be forgotton about for the next 5-10 years.

#4 Posted by Gay Gordon on 13 Feb 2024 at 09:49 AM

This looks like a dreadfully naïve, shallow and superficial response, and therefore potentially big money down the drain. Councillors obsessed with aesthetics, and the patsy's that enable this approach will never understand the failings of the 'levelling up' idea. A first year student fail!

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