Strathbungo Society AGM 2024

The AGM of the Strathbungo Society will be on Tuesday 12th November. The event is again in Queens Park Church of Scotland over on Queens Drive, and will begin at 7.30pm. Doors will be open from 7.15pm, with tea and coffee available beforehand and wine afterwards.  Do come and meet fellow residents of the area.

The principal business of the evening will be the Society’s report and accounts for the year. We will also welcome speakers from the Queen’s Park Neighbourhood Plan.

As noted in our last newsletter, this is a collaborative initiative by the neighbouring Community Councils for Shawlands & Strathbungo and Langside, Camphill & Battlefield that kicked off its work in May 2024, and you can hear of public consultation and survey results and progress to date..

Society Documents here:

We are always looking for new blood on the committee. Every community organisation needs to reflect the diversity of the people living in the area, and always needs a variety of different talents to make the machine work. We meet 10 times a year, in the den of The Bungo Bar on Nithsdale Road, and you can contribute as much or as little as you like, according to your interests and skills. Beyond committee work, we also need volunteers to take part in Bungo Cleanups, to help organise local events like Bungo in the Back Lanes, or even introduce new ideas for other events. Have you any time that you can give to your local community? Have you new ideas, but need some help to get them going?

The Society is only as strong as those who contribute, so it needs your support.

Please contact us for further information, before, during or after the event.

The future of Crossmyloof Resource Centre

Councillor Molyneux has tipped us off about some upcoming pre-planning public consultation by the developer Westpoint Homes. So if you want to see what Westpoint are planning, and wish to comment, get yourself along to one of the events.

In line with The Town and Country Planning (Pre-Application Consultation) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021, two statutory consultations will take place in relation to this project, both at Thornwood Hall, in The Point, the Queens Park Baptist Church community centre at 180 Queens Drive.

  • Wednesday 4th December, 2-7pm
  • Wednesday 5th February, 2-7pm

Feedback forms will be available at the first in-person event which can be completed and submitted to the project team until 25th December 2024.

The above consultation events will be advertised in the Glasgow Times a minimum of 7 days prior to each event taking place. Notified parties will receive correspondence confirming these details in advance.

Further information on the proposals is available from Iceni Projects via the below:

0141 473 7338
201 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 2LW
titwoodroad@iceniprojects.com

Bungo Clean Up

As someone who has his own pick up stick to clear litter from the area around the bins at the bottom of the QS/RPS back lane I would love to join the Bungo Clean Ups that you organise. However, it always happens 11-1 on Sunday, which is just when I am in church! Could you vary the times a bit, so I can both help clean up Strathbungo and worship? Cleanliness is next to godliness! Julyan Lidstone

Autumn 2024 Newsletter is here

The latest newsletter has arrived, just in time for our AGM! If it hasn’t made it through your door already, you can

Read it now!

Note there’s an error in the printed version of the newsletter; the AGM is next Tuesday, 12th November, not 19th as stated in the headline. Apologies.

If you want to write something for the newsletter, or even better if you fancy helping edit it or laying it out, please get in touch.

You can also find the newsletter, and old ones back to the 1990s, at the BygoneBungo Newsletter Archive.

Summer 2024 Newsletter is here

The latest newsletter has arrived, just in time for Bungo in the Back Lanes! If it hasn’t made it through your door already, you can

Read it now!

As well as Back Lanes news, there’s an update on parking restrictions, Queens Park Arena, and local news.

Thanks again to Kem Gammie for editing. If you want to write something for the newsletter, or even better if you fancy helping edit it or laying it out, please get in touch.

You can also find the newsletter, and old ones back to the 1990s, at the BygoneBungo Newsletter Archive.

Parking Update

Cllr Ghani has passed on a communication from council officers on the enforcement of the ban on pavement parking. It clarfies the council’s current position very well.

Essentially they have divided Glasgow’s roads up into ones where they will enforce the ban, becasue there is no issue (e.g. Pollokshields Road, Titwood Road) and those where they will defer enforcement while further work is undertaken (e.g. most of Strathbungo’s Squares and Gardens).

Our interpretation is that pavement parking will remain technically illegal, but there will be no enforcement, and no further nagging warning notes, until further notice, on roads coloured green. I suspect that might be for quite a while given the scale of the task.

Note there are some exceptions. The ban will be enforced on Titwood Road, Nitshdale Street, and at some of the entrances to the Squares, where the road is wider. Check the map; purple streets will have the ban enforced, green will not.

Excerpt from council map of streets

Map showing which streets will have the ban enforced (purple).

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Bungo in the Back Lanes 2024

SAVE THE DATE:
Bungo In the Back Lanes 2024
Sat 22 June, 1-5pm

RESIDENTS’ STALLS
BEER GARDENS
LIVE MUSIC
HOME BAKING
FOOD STALLS
TEA GARDENS
TOMBOLA
PLANT SALE
MAKERS MARKET
CHILDRENS GARDEN
All events take place in the back lanes between Nithsdale Rd & Vennard Gardens.
See you there!

See also our FAQ pages for further info.

Brighter Bungo is back

Bungo in the Back Lanes will be on 22nd June this year. Can you help us get ready?

Please do your bit to ensure the lanes are in good nick for the event by coming along for a half hour on Sunday 2nd June between 11 and 1. Litter pickers, bin bags and high viz vests will be available outside the former Zinfandel on Nithsdale Road. Hope to see you there, but if you can’t make it could you have a look at your own stretch and spruce it up for the occasion?

Makers Market

Also, the Makers Market returns to BITBL this year in the lane between Marywood Square and Vennard Gardens, after being a great success last year. If you’re a local craftsperson and would like to sell your products on the day, please email Nicola at soapetc@btinternet.com or DM her on Facebook at @bungosoapetc to apply.

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