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Author	eenbiertje
Comment	What you're saying honestly sounds a wee bit NIMBYish. I'm assuming you live in Tradeston. Barely anyone lives in Tradeston. No where near enough people at any rate. I mentioned before but it is a hugely under population area for a district directly adjacent to the centre of the fourth biggest city in the UK. I don't get why it should be controversial in the slightest for land that's either used for empty warehouse units or surface car parks to be built on, either for office use of residential, or a mix of both. I sympathise with what you're saying about park space. Glasgow city centre could do with so much more greenery, and maybe even small micro parks to break up the grey urban fabric. Along the river too. There are a few initiatives on the way that might go part of the way to solving this though. The city is committed to rolling out a dozen "Avenue" projects (next ones being Clyde Street and Argyle Street West of Central. Hope Street will get this too), meaning many more street trees and benches. There's also an ambition to drastically improve the public realm on both sides of the Clyde in the next few years. Trees, paths, seating, cycle lanes. I'm not sure an actual park is the best use of underused space in Tradeston. So long as the streets in it and nearby areas are made more for people and less for cars, this goes a long way to delivering benefits of parkland, while also allowing new development. AirBnBs are a huge issue. I'll grant you that. But the solution would be to legislate to put limits on availability of short term let's within Glasgow. It shouldn't be a curb on using vacant land to provide housing or office space. The city centre has been in decline largely due to the fact nobody lives there. City centre retail has next to no local customer base to see it past office hours, or through long periods where the ciy centre is largely vacant (as has been shown up through the pandemic). That twinned with the fact out of town shopping malls are much more appealing, pleasant shopping experiences, where pedestrians don't have to mix with vehicle traffic. Encouraging more people to live in the centre and nearby districts that are a walkable distance (i.e. Tradeston) by building more housing, is part of the solution.
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Created	Wed 13th Oct 2021 10:15am
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What you're saying honestly sounds a wee bit NIMBYish.

I'm assuming you live in Tradeston.

Barely anyone lives in Tradeston. No where near enough people at any rate. I mentioned before but it is a hugely under population area for a district directly adjacent to the centre of the fourth biggest city in the UK. I don't get why it should be controversial in the slightest for land that's either used for empty warehouse units or surface car parks to be built on, either for office use of residential, or a mix of both.

I sympathise with what you're saying about park space. Glasgow city centre could do with so much more greenery, and maybe even small micro parks to break up the grey urban fabric. Along the river too.

There are a few initiatives on the way that might go part of the way to solving this though. The city is committed to rolling out a dozen "Avenue" projects (next ones being Clyde Street and Argyle Street West of Central. Hope Street will get this too), meaning many more street trees and benches. There's also an ambition to drastically improve the public realm on both sides of the Clyde in the next few years. Trees, paths, seating, cycle lanes.

I'm not sure an actual park is the best use of underused space in Tradeston. So long as the streets in it and nearby areas are made more for people and less for cars, this goes a long way to delivering benefits of parkland, while also allowing new development.

AirBnBs are a huge issue. I'll grant you that. But the solution would be to legislate to put limits on availability of short term let's within Glasgow. It shouldn't be a curb on using vacant land to provide housing or office space.

The city centre has been in decline largely due to the fact nobody lives there. City centre retail has next to no local customer base to see it past office hours, or through long periods where the ciy centre is largely vacant (as has been shown up through the pandemic). That twinned with the fact out of town shopping malls are much more appealing, pleasant shopping experiences, where pedestrians don't have to mix with vehicle traffic. Encouraging more people to live in the centre and nearby districts that are a walkable distance (i.e. Tradeston) by building more housing, is part of the solution.