Streets for All, Garnethill & District Community Projects

Streets for All

Working with the community of Garnethill & Sauchiehall to create new public spaces for play, biodiversity and making connections across the motorway to Woodlands and Woodside.

Since summer 2021, we have been in conversation with the community of Garnethill & Sauchiehall to design, fabricate and install a series of improvements across Garnethill & Charing Cross, Glasgow to help to create a safer, more inviting and pedestrian friendly neighbourhood.

These interventions begin to address key concerns from the community and have been focused on key routes connecting communities across the M8 and respond to the Suachiehall & Garnethill District Regeneration Framework developed during the pilot Avenues programme for Glasgow City Centre.

We have worked with local schools to help identify locations for improvement, launched a competition for students of the Glasgow School of Art to define elements of the design, as well as joining many local meetings to understand how best to work alongside existing projects to create a set of small interventions that will make a positive impact together. 

Community feedback has helped shape the priority list for the project.

The designs include a new mural for Glasgow under the M8 and thermoplastic pattern additions to a pedestrian overpass to help create stronger identities to connections across the motorway. For these items, we worked with an artist, Jemimah Vaughan, who was commissioned after winning a student competition run through Glasgow School of Art.

Other interventions include bespoke planters and more practical additions for the immediate safety needs important to the community. We are excited to include a palette of sustainable materials, including cast hempcrete and a repurposed timber boardwalk from our Sustainable Glasgow Landing project for COP26 and Glasgow City Council, which was donated by Cities4Forests to the Glasgow Landing Hub.