July 15 2025

Glasgow City Council has come forward with plans for a new community resource in Baillieston to improve the health and wellbeing of residents.

Baillieston Community Hub is to be sited within James Lindsay Memorial Park, catering to significant new housing development across the east of the city.

Set within parkland off the busy Glasgow and Edinburgh Road, the hub is arranged on two levels with sports facilities pushed above a ground floor library and community space.

Outlining the design intent behind the facility, the authority wrote: "The ground floor is further defined by the shared community spaces branching off the central ‘Community Street’, making all these spaces visually and physically connected. The sports facilities on the first floor have a sloped roof to provide a south facing roofscape which will maximize solar panel usage. This also provides higher ceiling heights within the larger studio and gym spaces on the north side without the building imposing on the park."

Meeting the park with a wraparound colonnade, the freestanding pavilion is to be finished in vertically arranged terracotta tiles in a variety of natural clay tones. 

3 Comments

#1 Posted by Roddy_ on 17 Jul 2025 at 00:44 AM

The images may only be conjectural (I hope) but please don't use that cladding.

#2 Posted by Mr Andrew Gallacher on 17 Jul 2025 at 08:22 AM

Hi I think before this new hub is built the bus services number 2 should be extended from South Scott Street to the Baillieston roundabout. After all there is the two bus stops which currently are underused the people who live at this end do not benefit from proper bus links

#3 Posted by Robert hammack on 22 Jul 2025 at 14:00 PM

Ongoing problems of cost regarding this building as it has taken so long to get to a this stage , would like to see cost of terracotta panel facade and installation costs
I wonder how much of the building design is actually wat the people of Baillieston asked for

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