August 22 2024

Glasgow City Council is considering a finalised framework governing investment and development priorities for the Greater Easterhouse area.

Highlighting recent initiatives such as the Seven Lochs Wetland Park the document sets out how the residential area can grow through to 2050 by establishing the area as an attractive destination, promoting sustainability, green infrastructure and connectivity.

Councillor Ruairi Kelly commented: “By using the Framework at local and very local levels, the council and our partners will work together to deliver the vision for Greater Easterhouse as a more vibrant, sustainable, connected and resilient place.”

Among the presented proposals is a new materials recycling centre to improve collection services in the east of the city. A reconfiguration of the existing household waste centre at Easter Queenslie Depot will open the site up to charities and social enterprises engaged in the re-use of items such as bikes and furniture. A visitor centre will also foster greater public awareness of recycling.

The draft strategic development framework will now be presented to the City Administration Committee for approval and subsequent adoption as supplementary guidance into the City Development Plan.  

3 Comments

#1 Posted by Fat Bloke on Tour on 22 Aug 2024 at 12:05 PM

144 pages of hopes / dreams / middle class waffle -- beyond parody given the reality of today.

144 pages of warm words and edgy diagrams that will butter no parsnips or indeed fix the roof leaks at the Bridge where you have to navigate an obstacle course of buckets to get to the library books.

Plans are great -- but they need to be credible.

And to be credible the public sector needs to look after all the stuff they built in the last masterplan.

Until that happens all the powerpoints / thick bound frameworks / spatial design strategies are just much hot air / so much middle class welfare that parodies the real needs and wants of the area.

Planning until 2050 -- it won't make till the next Olympics. It is just public sector control freakery gone mad.

More economic activity in the area and the locals can work it out for themselves.

#2 Posted by Spike on 22 Aug 2024 at 15:01 PM

Build private housing for sale in the areas already designated for growth ie between Lockwood Farm and Netherhouse which will provide a better demographic and economic mix and this will stimulate economic activity in the area

#3 Posted by Piers on 22 Aug 2024 at 15:24 PM

You need more private property. No area in Glasgow ever thrived without tax payers intervention when its demographics were low skilled and low educated.

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