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PAST PRESENT POSSIBLE

Welcome to the third edition of the High Street Area Strategy Newsletter. This newsletter is produced bi-annually for residents, businesses and retailers in the area to remain up to date with

the work and progress of the five year action plan for the High Street Area Strategy. For each edition of the newsletter we will provide updates of what is upcoming and how you can get involved.

• First phase of works in now underway

• Works will begin at top of High Street

• Chance for retailers/residents and visitors to get involved in the changing face of the street

• Contact [email protected]• Past, Present, Possible

launches on 30th November at St Andrews Street

The early city of Glasgow was a tale of two towns, the stone built religious centre at the

top of town and the burgh, beginning around the Saltmarket. Over time, they eventually grew together.

After researching the wonderful history of the High Street, we are about to install an

outdoor exhibition through the use of banners. This will begin to inform the community of the history of the area and will begin a visual reference of the street.

In the coming months, we will be seeking the communities views on the heritage interpretation and design for the public realm for the High Street. We will be holding a heritage charrette to ask your views and we will be creating events associated with the heritage of the High Street.

GHA CONDITION SURVEY

CITY PROPERTY CONDITION SURVEY

• Conditions survey completed on commercial properties as part

• of rolling programme

• Conditions survey completed on residential properties as part of rolling programme

TENANT LIAISONS OFFICER

• Tenant Liaison Officer available to meet with any of the tenants and can be found at 46 Albion Street

GREYFRIARS GARDEN RELOCATION

• Design for new Greyfriars Garden submitted by UOS students

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN COMING TO THE CHARRETTE PLEASE CONTACT [email protected]

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Welcome to the third edition of the High Street Area Strategy Newsletter. This newsletter is produced bi-annually for residents, businesses and retailers in the area to remain up to date with

the work and progress of the five year action plan for the High Street Area Strategy. For each edition of the newsletter we will provide updates of upcoming activities and how you can get involved.

The High Street Area Strategy aims to enhance the liveability, competitiveness, and

sustainability of the High Street. Work has not stopped during the Covid-19 emergency. However some projects had to be delayed as the construction industry paused during the Emergency. Where possible, projects have continued to be developed in the background.

Once lockdown restrictions are lifted, the High Street Area Strategy will

continue as planned.In the meantime Glasgow City Council is introducing temporary measures to provide additional space for physical distancing in public places for people to walk, wheel or cycle while Covid-19 restrictions remain in place, including along the High Street. Please follow updates on GCC’s website and social media channels for further details.

We thank you for your patience during this time.

PROJECTS UPDATE

• City Property (Glasgow) LLP has launched a Tenant Support Package and issued regular communications to tenants advising of GCC and government support available for businesses during the Covid-19 emergency.

• City Property Rent Reviews have now been completed.

• The Independent Retail Fund has been suspended during the Covid-19 emergency, but work on site will resume as soon as possible, in accordance with Scottish Government directives.

• Several projects which required high levels of community involvement, such as Past, Present, Possible and the High Street Interpretation Strategy, had to be suspended during lockdown. As social distancing measures might remain with us for a long time, innovative ways to interact with the community are being investigated.

Blind Alick lived in Fiddlers close just off the High Street in the 1700s. Fiddlers close may have

been named after Alick, employed by both merchants and the poor to play a good ‘reel’, well into the wee small hours. At first Alick made a good living from playing the fiddle, ‘eighteen pence for the first twa hours’ and ‘a penny for every reel afterwards’.Blind from a young age, Alick was described by Mr Sherriff Strathearn as ‘a man of middle size, his coat was green with stains, soiling and age’. From his coat he hung ‘a staff’, which he swung at street urchins, who followed him along the street. ‘He wore brown corduroy breeches,

grey worsted stockings and ill-fitting shoes tied together with string’. But as Alick grew older, he became even more down on his luck. He attended the Tron Church, where the minister, Dr Chalmers, gave his sermons and Blind Alick would stand at the door with his hat in his hand. By all accounts many took pity on the old blind fiddler and would donate a penny or two.

His love of his fiddle and the music he gave to the city were clearly appreciated and Blind Alick, never let his blindness stop him from composing or orating poems, and this is one of his first.

I left Inverness,And travelled up to Glasgow town,And arrived in great distress,I’ve travelled the world over,And many a place besides,But I never saw a more beautiful city.Than this on the navigable Clyde’!’

Alick lived in Glasgow at a time when the cities growth was due to commerce with the Americas and the trade in Rum, sugar, cotton, tobacco and slaves. It is remarkable therefore that at this time of wealth that this description of an ordinary citizen like Alick, who lived on the High Street 230 years ago, has been handed down.

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MORE INFORMATION: WWW.WASPSSTUDIOS.ORG.UK

The City Centre Strategy identified nine City Centre Districts and set a goal of creating a District Regeneration Framework (DRF) for each of them by 2025. Glasgow City Council has appointed a multidisciplinary team of local and international consultants to develop the four remaining DRFs : Cowcaddens, Townhead, the

“Learning Quarter” and the Merchant City. The High Street cuts across three out of these four districts and is a very important area of focus for this part of the city.

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Townhead:491,000 m2

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Glasgow City Council DRFs // April 2020 // Austin-Smith:Lord - Studio for New Realities © - Urban Movement // FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY

WORK IN PROGRESS

Townhead

Cowcaddens

Blythswood

St. Enoch

Broomielaw

Sauchiehall

Central

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Merchant City

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The team of consultants is led by Austin-Smith-Lord, in partnership with Rotterdam based Studio

for New Realities, Wave Particle, Urban Movement and Civic Engineers. The new DRFs will benefit from the experience developed in producing the previous DRFs for Broomielaw, St Enoch, Central, and Blythswood.

The purpose of a DRF is to seek ways to support each community to thrive. The documents will develop a multi sector strategy to respond to challenges and opportunities these communities face to enhance quality of life, health and wellbeing, sustainability, resiliency, economy, and the physical environment.

The action plan associated with each DRF will promote local and large-scale projects, with short, medium, and long term delivery timescales.

The DRFs will be developed during the course of the next three years in collaboration with local communities across all four districts. Consultants will be working in partnership with residents, businesses, community and civic organisations, as well as, Strathclyde University, Glasgow

Caledonian University and the City of Glasgow College.

The Covid-19 emergency and the social distancing measures associated with it will require a change in the way the consultants will work with communities.

The team are working with community councils, housing associations and local stakeholders,

to ensure that everyone in the community will have a voice in developing the regeneration plan.

Please follow updates on the DRFs journey on the City Centre Strategy blog: https://www.glasgowcitycentrestrategy.com/

If you have any comments, thoughts or ideas please contact us on [email protected].

DISTRICT REGENERATION FRAMEWORKS