Glasgow City Council last year carried out a major public consultation asking people who use Shawlands Town Centre for their thoughts on how the area could be improved. The findings of this consultation, which generated 1240 responses, are published in the report below.
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Following on from the consultation a Draft Shawlands Town Centre Action Plan was developed.
The Plan is intended to:
The Council invites you to support the Town Centre Action Plan and become involved. Please follow the link to the Draft Action Plan and its supporting documents and tell us what you think.
You can comment by:-
Phone 0141 287 6094 / 6097
Post to Shawlands Town Centre Action Plan , DRS, Glasgow City Council, FREEPOST SC05293 Glasgow G2 1BR.
If you would like to chat about the issues of the Town Centre with other Shawlands customers, businesses and residents you can also do this via our partners at Shawlands Business Association Facebook.
A drop-in event at Langside Hall has been organised from 10.00am to 9.00pm on January 23rd to discuss the plan. Feel free to drop in and have a chat.
You know, I was looking at the Shawlands Arcade the other day, wondering if there was any way that it could be made less spectacularly ugly and alienating. The covered arcade is actually not a bad idea, and I believe it also offers parking? The most difficult problem, IMHO, is with the raised walkway, which sets it apart from the street. I mean, the appearance could always be mitigated somehow, but that walkway is hard to get rid of…