Active Travel Strategy City Network

MESSAGE SENT ON BEHALF OF MARTIN HEATH

DIVISIONAL DIRECTOR (ROADS AND TRANSPORT)

Dear Elected Members

We are writing to inform you of forthcoming additional public engagement for the Active Travel Strategy City Network: Inner North and South areas, from Monday 27th January 2025.

Background

Glasgow City Council’s Active Travel Strategy sets out the concept of a City Network to provide a dense network of high-quality protected cycle ways and improved pedestrian infrastructure across Glasgow in a phased delivery approach. The Inner North and South is the first phase, as outlined in the approved City Network Final Delivery Plan. AECOM, Austin-Smith:Lord and WAVEparticle form the consultant team working with GCC officers to progress the two areas to Preliminary Design by the end of March 2025.

Earlier engagement and consultation

Stakeholder engagement for the network began in March 2024 with a series of ‘by invitation’ workshops and events, the audiences for which included internal GCC teams, elected members, community councils and different road user groups. This was followed with a programme of pre-engagement pop-up events, utilising the Beacon travelling map, during July and August. This preceded the formal public consultation which took place between Monday 9th September and Sunday 20th October. The consultation included 11 drop-in public events across the two areas, paper surveys and consultation materials made available at local libraries, and an online survey which garnered around 1,200 responses.

Network adjustments

During the consultation some additional routes were proposed for the Inner North network and a number of alternative routes proposed for the South network. In response, the project team have been investigating these further and have produced draft concept designs. For full visibility therefore, the forthcoming engagement aims to inform the public about the potential changes to the networks, to present the draft designs, and to gather feedback and commentary on these to inform the future design stages (at RIBA stages 3 and 4).

Details of the additional public engagement

  • Updates to the City Network StoryMap going live from Monday 27th January will include revised network maps, the draft designs for the additional and alternative routes and details of the drop-in public events. GCC’s City Network web page is also being updated to reflect the additional engagement, again for go-live on Monday 27th January.
  • Drop-in events will take place in both the Inner North and South areas as per the table below:
Date Venue Times
Wednesday 5 February Destiny Church, Gym Hall,1120 Pollokshaws Road, G41 3QP 14:00 to 16:00 and17:00 to 20:00 
Thursday 6 February Pollokshields Library30 Leslie Street, G41 2LF  16:00 to 19:00
     
Monday 10 February Spirit of Springburn Community Hub,Springburn Shopping Centre  15:00 to 18:00
Tuesday 18 February Clay Community Church,Bardowie Street Hall,206 Bardowie Street, G22 5AB Alongside the Saracen Street design consultation event.  15:00 to 19:00
  • Feedback on the amended routings will be gathered at the drop in events by way of a feedback form. Feedback is also invited via the project email: gccin&sconsultation@aecom.com

Next Steps

The collated feedback from this additional engagement will be appended to the overall consultation outputs and reports. A full summary of the engagement activities and consultation findings will be presented to the Environment and Liveable Neighbourhoods City Policy Committee in June 2025.

All outputs will be made available to future design teams taking the projects forward to the next RIBA stages (subject to available funding). Public consultation will be required at these future stages.

Martin Heath

Divisional Director (Roads and Transport)

Neighbourhoods, Regeneration and Sustainability