March 5 2024

Glasgow City Council has published a draft city centre strategy that builds on the inherent strengths of its urban core to pull in more tourism, commerce and residents.

Governing the period to 2030 the document proposes to make its central areas a 'magnetic experience' by championing high-growth sectors such as digital, life sciences, climate science and the creative industries.

Crucially the document also extends efforts to encourage more people to live in the city centre, currently home to 23,794 people, to address a hollowing out of population from its peak.

New residents will be encouraged to the riverfront and a focus will be put on returning unproductive land and property back into use.

Councillor Angus Millar, convener for city centre recovery at Glasgow City Council said: “The City Centre Strategy sets out our vision for the future, and will form the basis of partnership working between the public and private sectors as we work towards a more vibrant, greener and mixed-use city centre. From the Avenues programme to our plans for the Golden Z and projects across the local neighbourhoods of the city centre, the strategy contains a range of actions which will help transform the city centre.”

The document will go before the city's administration committee on 21 March for approval.  

7 Comments

#1 Posted by donkey kong on 6 Mar 2024 at 12:20 PM

Maybe if every building wasnt built to let, and we didn’t have student housing everywhere there’d be a chance. All the Glasgow City council do is produce masterplans, comes to a big fat nothing. Remember lane culture?? -

#2 Posted by David on 6 Mar 2024 at 12:28 PM

I think some progress has been made already in repopulating the central core of the city...there are several large BTR and student housing proposals on site or in the pipeline, and these do add to the population....but I think more work needs to be done in the provision of housing units for sale, and the conversion of the upper floors of Victorian and Georgian office buildings that are now less desirable to the commercial market.

#3 Posted by D to the R on 6 Mar 2024 at 13:18 PM

BTR is dead - rents freezing has seen to that. Coupled with Planning delay and constant u-turning will kill off the rest. GCC have no chance of achieving the city centre living targets they've given themselves ... no surprise ... old news ... move on.

#4 Posted by Fat Bloke on Tour on 6 Mar 2024 at 14:59 PM

What happened to the last document?

Housebuilding in Glesga would appear to be focused on social housing -- 60% of the recent builds have been for some form of subsidised rent.

Not really the way to build a sustainable city population.

#5 Posted by Ben on 6 Mar 2024 at 18:43 PM

#3 One only needs to look at the proposals around the Kingston bridge to see that Glasgow is leading the way for BTR developments in Scotland. Perhaps check some of the other recent news articles on UR.

#6 Posted by James Hepburn on 7 Mar 2024 at 12:18 PM

Glasgow City Council has a strategy? Maybe they could start by cleaning up the city, its disgusting, covered in litter wherever you go.

#7 Posted by Parkguy61 on 12 Apr 2024 at 12:13 PM

GCC take heed. I would love to buy a new build in the city centre or city centre adjacent but they are as rare as hens teeth compared to the offer for Buy to Rents like Moda (who don't respond to people over 50 who join their mailing list) and student accommodations.

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