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Anyone walking along Queen or Regent Park Square on Monday may have blinked and missed it but if they’d peeked down the back lanes running behind Moray Place they would have seen, for the first time in decades, a back lane being partially repaired.
There is currently a proposal to repair the back lanes once the ground consolidation works are complete with Glasgow City Council paying the cost. The contractors carried out a test today on a section of the lane (about 1.5m square) to see what state the sub base was in and whether the “cobbles” are salvageable.
As you can see, the stones are irregular but solid and the ash ‘pan’ underneath is sounds and feels like concrete. It was painstaking work, taking hours to complete just this section, but you can see the end result for yourself – an even surface, good finish and not dramatically different from what was there before – just better!
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This gives the contractors good news that the stones are salvageable and repairable, and the sub base solid. We will be writing to residents this week outlining the proposals for wholesale works on the back lanes affected by the mine workings.
A public meeting to discuss this will be held on Monday 20th February, 7.30pm Queens Park Parish Church, 170 Queens Drive. Once the community have fed-back their views to us we will pass on the consensus to the Council so the work can be carried out before the summer.
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Wow! This is really the best of all possible outcomes. A stable and usable surface and the historic look of the backlanes preserved. I hope that this goes forward and cheers to the Strathbungo Society for all of its hard work over the years.
Well it’s brill news for those in the lanes that are getting the money spent on but everyone else in lanes 10x worse than these lanes are looking on incredibly envious 🙁
Ah, Andy, but just think how un-envious you’ve been of the folk having their gardens dug up, streets closed, a giant dirty batching plant and 24-hour generator installed outside their front window…!
Andy – all hope is not lost – see the item on the results of tonight’s meeting.
https://bungoblog.com/general/back-lanes-meeting-outcome/
The option preferred by the lanes affected by the consolidation works (thus far – consultation closes on Saturday) is the cheapest and if this remains the case, when we report back to the Council we will be asking them and Forkers if it will be possible to extend the works to cover neighbouring lanes unaffected by the ground consolidation works. We will, of course, then meet with those residents to discuss the proposals.