In 2022, Glasgow City Council awarded £1 million to each ward through the Neighbourhood Infrastructure Improvement Fund (NIIF) for residents to decide how they would like it spent. The Mount Florida Community Council area is likely to get in the region of £150 – £200k for projects. This allocation must be spent on capital projects, namely Council infrastructure i.e., physical things that will be in Council ownership, but not ongoing repairs.
In Mount Florida, we have recently undertaken two major consultations which have identified possible projects; the Liveable Neighbourhoods consultation and the development of the Local Place Plan. These have been used to identify projects that fit the criteria for NIIF and were classed as high priority for short term implementation. You can find more information about the actual projects in these documents. In summary, these are
• Letherby Triangle – works should be on site soon.
• Greening and providing seating on key routes where pavement space is wide enough, for example near the bottom of Prospecthill Road; junction of Cathcart Road, Clincart Road and MacLellan Street; between Cumming Drive and Somerville Drive; and near to The Day Today store.
• Upgrading pavements – sites would need to be identified.
• Improving Cathkin Park, for example by the addition of childrens’ play equipment.
In October, we asked you to prioritise these projects and the results are shown below. The graphs show the overall priority and the tables show the number of times items were mentioned in the comments section.
A number of ideas have been rejected by Council officers, eg street trees due to underground services so we have now put forward three projects to be costed. These are
● Seating and planting at the junction of Clincart Road, Cathcart Road and McLellan Street. Hopefully the concentration of tree planting and seating into one area will allow officers to identify underground services, given this is happening elsewhere in the city
● Play equipment at Cathkin Park; and
● Raising the level of the roads at junctions along Cathcart Road to make it easier to cross
