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Queens Park Arena Launch Event

3rd October 2012 / / 0 Comments

Queens Park Arena will be opening this Saturday with an all-afternoon launch event.

A few years ago the Society diverted funds from the unfinished back lanes pilot to the scheme to refurbish and reopen the area around the old bandstand which burned down in 1996 after decades of neglect.

The Arena is a project developed by all four local community councils and aims to be a community performance space. Curious? Come along and get a taste of what the arena will be used for and speak to those who’ve got it up and running.

A Local Shopping Wish List

27th September 2012 / / 7 Comments

It’s been hard to miss the speedy work being done to build the new Sainsbury’s Local store on Darnley Road. The construction is in the final stages and a lot of residents have been discussing the pros and cons of the new store opening and the impact on local businesses.

In fact, some residents have gone further than just discussing the issue and have written letters to Sainsbury’s to raise their concerns and suggest items the shop might stock and not stock!

Our small, local shops give the area a real buzz and unique atmosphere but almost everyone will use supermarkets for some if not most of their shopping – wouldn’t it be great if we could model our local supermarket to stock the items we otherwise travel out of the area to get?

I’ve attached a copy of the basic letter but everyone is bound to have a different wishlist of items, so if you want to try to influence the stock list, what have you got to lose? Now’s your chance! General Sainsburys list

The letter can be posted to the head office:

Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd
33 Holborn
London
EC1N 2HT

Govanhill Voices

21st September 2012 / / 2 Comments

Govanhill Voices is a new community singing project started this year by song leaders Harry Campbell and Jane Bentley, originally to sing in the Streetland festival in May 2012. The group performed for the first time at the Streetland festival on Friday 4 May, and are continuing to meet on Thursdays at the Govanhill Neighbourhood Centre, 6 Daisy Street G42 8JL from 7.30–9.15pm. Why not come along?

It doesn’t matter if you think you can’t sing, this is about bringing together adults from all backgrounds and nationalities to have fun singing together. We sing songs from around the world in easy harmony with some drumming. No experience or training is needed and there’s no charge.

CONTACT
You can contact us at GovanhillVoices@gmail.com or 07947 737187. As well as the mailing list we have a page on the Streetland website at streetland.ning.com/profile/GovanhillVoices  and we’re on Facebook and Twitter (@GovanhillVoices); we have some pictures starting to appear at http://www.flickr.com/photos/govanhillvoices/ and videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/govanhillvoices

New Conservation Areas

21st September 2012 / / 0 Comments
CONSULTATION – DRAFT SHAWLANDS CROSS & WAVERLEY PARK CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL
As planning authority, Glasgow City Council is required to consider which parts of its area are of special architectural or historic significance and where appropriate designate these as conservation areas.
 
In regenerating the area, developing and maintaining a quality, historic environment plays an important role. The Council are therefore considering the potential designation of two distinct new Conservation Areas in Shawlands and have recently completed a Draft Conservation Area Appraisal for both Shawlands Cross and Waverley Park.
These have been issued for consultation and can be viewed online at Draft Conservation Area Appraisal
 
There will be a public meeting to discuss the proposals on:-
Thursday 27th September 7.00PM
Main Hall, Shawlands Academy
31 Moss Side Road
Shawlands,
Glasgow
 
To Comment E-mail: appraisal@drs.glasgow.gov.uk no later than 2nd November 2012

A Window On The World

21st September 2012 / / 0 Comments

Glasgow City Council have recently updated their advice to homeowners on repairing and reinstating traditional windows. The Council have stepped up enforcement action in this area recently, so if you’re looking into fixing some draughty or damaged panes this is a good place to start. You can download the latest advice here.

Newest Newsletter is Ready! (I hope)

18th September 2012 / / 0 Comments

2012-09 newsletter prelim3

Hi, everyone. This should be the final draft of the newsletter. It’s the second edition I’ve edited and the first I’ve done the layout for. This version is in a facing pages format that should be easy to read online and to print. Now, I’m off to format it for the printer, as a 3-on-3. Thanks to Nikki Cameron, Andrew Downie, Monika Hozdekova, Laura Moodie and Natalie Morgan-Klein for their contributions. Thanks to Liz Macdonald for helping me to get up and running on the layout. Finally, thanks to everyone who has taken the time to read the drafts and has spotted needed corrections.

Shawlands Academy’s new outdoor digital design studio

12th September 2012 / / 0 Comments

Tonight sees the test launch of a new digital art projection facility that uses the  front facade of Shawlands Academy as its canvass. With funding from Glasgow City Council and Shawlands & Strathbungo Community Council and the involvement of Architecture + Design Scotland and the UK’s leading lighting designers Lighting Collective , the ‘Shawlands Gate’ project includes facilities that allow digital art works and designs to be projected onto the facade of the Academy.  Funded as part of the Shawlands Town Centre Action Plan, the aim is to brighten up this major gateway to Shawlands town centre, the “Heart of Glasgow’s (Cosmopolitan) South Side”.  The project has allowed the Academy’s young people to display their digital creativity and, in the future, may allow professional artists to use this unique “canvass” as part of Glasgow’s international arts festival, GI.  

Shawlands Gate has also led to new trees being planted to the front facade of the Academy (and getting rid teacher parking), given its young people the opportunity to to learn and design Public Art and get involved in the local community via their research into the history and businesses in Skirving Street.  And, as a result of the project young people at Shawlnads Academy are giving their views on new plans to upgrade Langside Halls.  Shawlands Gate is the first of many projects whose aim is to develop Shawlands as the Heart of Glasgow’s cosmopolitan South Side.   

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-19557547

http://www.glasgowsouthandeastwoodextra.co.uk/news/local-headlines/lighten-up-1-2521571

 

Railway Rumblings

10th September 2012 / / 4 Comments

Been woken by strange rumblings in the night lately? It looks like Network Rail are carrying out engineering works along the rail line parallel to Moray Place.

The last couple of Sunday nights they have been out and about in the wee small hours creating some form of concrete base structures along the line. This has involved trucks, bags of concrete, cut back vegetation and destroying fences.

As ever with NR, there seems to be no thought given to informing the public or even the Council of the works they are doing.

Residents at 52 Marywood Square have been in contact with City Councillors and the police. As a result, a fallen fence was put back on Wednesday – by wrapping a chain at each corner of the fallen panel and the adjacent part of the standing fencing and securing the chain with a nut and bolt.

Councillors have also written to Network Rail, the Council Regeneration Service and the Police

Take a look at the photos of the base. On the far side of the track, it is not possible to get a clear photo due to the vegetation so they are taken some distance away.

On this side, you can’t really see the large base as it is below the embankment.

The last photo, taken from inside the house, is to show where it is on Moray Place and how close it is to the front window.

You can see the gaps made by removing some of the shrubs for the base. It does not appear to be a traffic light signal as they don’t have a base.

So, does anyone know what the structures might be for?

What should residents do if the trucks turn up in the middle of the night again?

The same base structure has been built, one terrace down, outside 32 Moray Place but this time on the far embankment. It is only visible through the vegetation on this side of the embankment.

There have been piles of concrete slabs placed at regular intervals along the Moray Place Embankment  between Queen’s Square and Crossmyloof. They may be along the whole embankment but I can’t see through the vegetation further down.

Looks like there is more building work on its way…but will be we ever find out what is going on?

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