The next Strathbungo Society Monthly Meeting is taking place tomorrow at The Bungo at 7.30pm. With Bungo in the Back Lanes only weeks away. it’s a great way to show interest in helping out or just finding out more about the event.
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There are only just over six weeks to go until the area’s favourite annual event best underway: Bungo in the Back Lanes!
As most know, BITBL is a DIY event where people are encouraged to set up a stall somewhere in the back lanes and use the opportunity to sell all manner of items – from bric a brac and secondhand clothes to records, food and lemonade stalls. If you’re interested in being a stallholders, please contact us on bitbl@strathbungo.co.uk
Weans in the Lanes is on this Sunday between 10am-12pm – look out for bunting to tell you which lanes are taking part.
This year’s Spring Fling, which hosted the first ever Bungo Bake-Off, was a great community success. Over 200 people made it along over the course of a beautiful morning to a packed Queens Park Baptist Church to enjoy a variety of craft stalls and consume a LOT of tea and cake.
The Bungo Bake-Off competition grabbed the imagination of budding bakers in the area and 13 cakes were entered. There was an array of wonderful cakes on offer and we really were amazed at the effort people made! Thanks so much to everyone who entered, though a special mention goes to the winners:
Sharon Schwepps (1st prize)
Polly Le Grand (2nd prize)
Alison Crystal (3rd prize)
Alexander Thomson (Children’s prize winner)
They won prizes kindly donated by Gusto and Relish, Locavore and Rock n Rollers.
With so many cakes in the competition and tonnes of home baking made for the Spring Fling, we were still left with a lot of sweet treats at the end of the event. Not wanting it to go to waste, all leftover cake and biscuits was donated to Oxton House Care Home in Marywood Square and Glasgow City Mission.
We’re already thinking how we can better the Spring Fling for next year and possibly expand upon that baking competition….
There are only a couple of days left to get baking, ahead of the first Bungo Bake-Off at this year’s Spring Fling. All entrants are asked to drop off their Spring-themed cake by 10am on Saturday 19th March, to be judged before the Fling starts at 11am. Any type of cake is allowed, the tastier the better!
The competition is open to all and there’s a host of prizes up for grabs. For adults, this includes getting to be star baker at Gusto and Relish, Locavore vouchers and a free haircut. For the younger bakers, free milkshakes at Gusto and Relish and exciting baking goods are on offer. If you haven’t decided yet whether to enter, there is still time to don your pinny and get baking. See you on Saturday!
Following the Make Your Mark community planning consultation, a public meeting is to be held at 553 Shields Road, attended by Nicola Sturgeon MSP, Alison Thewliss MP, Cllr David Meikle, Bailie Norman MacLeod and Bailie Hanif Raja. There will be a Q&A session as well as an introduction by Bill Fraser and a presentation of findings by the planners.
Programme:
2.00pm Arrivals/Welcome (15-20mins)
2.20pm Introduction to Make Your Mark (5mins)
Bill Fraser, Chair Pollokshields Community Council
2.25pm Presentation of Findings (15 mins)
Jude Barber, Collective Architecture and
Andy Campbell, Dress for the Weather
2.40pm Political Panel in Conversation (20 mins)
(Chaired by Bill Fraser)
Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister/MSP
Alison Thewliss, MSP
David Meikle, Local Councillor
Bailie Norman MacLeod, Local Councillor
Bailie Hanif Raja, Local Councillor
3.00pm Make Your Mark – on-going involvement (30-45 mins)
Opportunity to note interest in Community Forum, share local information, sign up to short term actions etc.:
- ‘A week in Pollokshields’ – Share information about activities on a large ‘day-by-day’ chart
- ‘The Vision – 5 areas for action’ – Get involved/sign up to take short-medium term action
3.45pm Event ends
The next Strathbungo Society monthly meeting is taking place tomorrow, Tuesday 15th March at 7.30pm downstairs at The Bungo. As always, everyone is welcome!
(posted on behalf of Fiona Mackinnon and some other local residents)
Another year, another planning application for Sammy Dow…or Lebowski’s as it is planned for the future.
People living close by may have got a Neighbour Notification of the plans a month ago but this process was suspended as the wrong plans were uploaded to the Planning website meaning residents were unable to judge the proposals.
The Planning Department has re-issued the notification and the new date for final comments on the full planning permission is Friday 18 March 2016. For the Listed Building Consent plan the date was Wednesday 9 March 2016 (sorry this has been posted after the deadline).
The main proposal is to create a commercial kitchen at the rear of the extension. This means having to have a very low level kitchen venting system which has the potential to be very noisy and to create unpleasant odours from cooking burgers for neighbours. Some residents will know of the problems with the vent from The Bungo installed a few years ago. The Bungo vent is a high level one, so cooking smells are discharged above the roofline (though there is I believe still a problem with noise); these will vent into the back court gardens and near ground level!
There are also issues of overlooking and noise leakage with their desire to replaced solid glass brick light wells with new windows that will overlook homes in Nithsdale Road and Moray Place.
Please take a look at the plans online at the Glasgow City Council website – there are two applications but only one is still open https://publicaccess.glasgow.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=O1KJSBEX0L800
Attached is an objection written by local residents which should offer inspiration if you want to object. You can cut and paste from it or re-write as you like. Make sure that if you want to object, you put the word ‘object’ near the start of your response 69NithsdaleRdObjection2016
The Strathbungo Society will consider this at the meeting on Tuesday
Strathbungo Community Clear Up (Brighter Bungo)
Sunday 13th March 2016
Meet at the corner of Nithsdale Road & Moray Place (Sammy Dow’s/Lebowskis)
Time: between 11 am & 1 pm
If you have a wheelbarrow please bring it along.
We are delighted to announce the full range of prizes for lucky winners of the first ever Bungo Bake-Off to be announced on March 19th at the Spring Fling…..
For adults, the top prize is a voucher for lunch for two at Gusto and Relish, our wonderful local eatery, plus the fabulous opportunity to work with James and his team as guest baker and for your Bake-Off winning cake to be sold in Gusto and Relish – (James has kindly suggested that proceeds go to the Strathbungo Society, so that is a great prize for us too!).
Second prize comes courtesy of Rock and Rollers, our neighbourhood hair and beauty salon, who have given a voucher for a cut and blow dry plus some lovely hair products for the runner-up.
And for the third prize winner, our inspiring local social enterprise Locavore has donated a £10 voucher for their shop, and we also have an additional prize – a box of assorted flavoured coffee beans, mug and coaster.
And for the children’s competition, we are delighted that Gusto and Relish will give the top three prize-winners a complimentary milkshake. They will also receive selected baking-related equipment – such as cup cake cases, whisk, cake book – from the Strathbungo Society.
Thanks to Gusto and Relish, Rock and Rollers, and Locavore for their support of the Spring Fling and the Bungo Bake-Off. The Strathbungo Society is really grateful for your kindness.
Locavore has also kindly offered 10% of baking ingredients bought in the shop that will be used in baking your cake/s for the Bungo Bake-Off. Thanks very much!
So, we hope that has inspired everyone to get baking!
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