1 Residents’ parking

Land and Environmental Services of Glasgow City Council (otherwise known as the Roads Department) carried out a consultation on the possibility of introducing residents’ parking schemes in the west of Glasgow including Jordanhill.

We contacted Land Services at the beginning of June to find the result, but we were told it may be the end of June before anything is available.

2 Jordanhill Campus

Strathclyde University has produced a large report (Campus Plan Stage 2) on the future of the college site which has been submitted to Glasgow City Council Planners. This report which seeks to justify the development of most of the site for housing, covers many aspects including a traffic impact analysis, the effects on flora and fauna, and tree surveys etc..

During discussions with the University officials, it was confirmed that the large areas of grass and the playing fields will be retained, and the latest we have heard is that the playing fields are to be transferred to Jordanhill School Educational Amenities Fund. The Campus Plan states that the housing developer will build a new changing room facility, but details are not yet clear. The Stow building (the large red sandstone building which dominates the site) will remain but will be converted to flats. The unsightly tall concrete library building will be demolished, as will most of the other buildings except the two halls of residence which will also be converted to flats.

The University held a public exhibition on the evenings of. 6 and 7 February within the College attended by some 200 residents and the University has now submitted a report on how they dealt with questions raised by residents during the exhibition..

The full report can be studied on the Strathclyde University: website at http://www.strath.ac.uk/jordanhillreview

3 Scotstoun Traffic Management Order

On Friday 17 November, the Herald carried a Public Notice regarding the City Council’s proposal to introduce a Traffic Order within Scotstoun. The Order will apply during events within the stadium and will affect all the streets immediately south of the stadium (between Danes Drive and Dumbarton Road). On specified dates parking will be banned on these streets except by residents who will have to apply for permits.

This subject has been aired in the past during the earlier major redevelopment proposals for Scotstouns Stadium (now more or less abandoned) and similar schemes exist around the Hampden and Ibrox grounds.

There is however the possibility that the introduction of the Order could have a knock-on effect on streets in South Jordanhill such as Westland Drive, Essex Drive and Mitre Road where visitors to the stadium may choose to park instead..

We have not been consulted on the Scotstoun scheme and the first we heard of it was throught the Public Notice. We will follow this up and raise the matter with our city councillors.. The debate must be on whether or not the scheme should be extended into South Jordanhill.

JCC Secretary has spoken to an official in the City Council since the notice appeared. It appears there have been no local meetings in Scotstoun recently on this subject, the last occasion was about 18 months ago chaired by their local Councillor McFadden The official said that she expects that the permits will be required on only two or three occasions annually, the permits will be free to residents and do not need to be renewed annually, visitor permits will cost £10, and the fine for parking without a permit will be £60. She also said that there should be adequate parking within the stadium such that overspill parking should not occur in Jordanhill.

The Order was finalised and a notice to that effect was carried in the Herald this month (June 08)

4 Dawsholm civic amenity site

The new upgraded site is now open, every day, 8.00 am till 8.00 pm. There are now facilities for recycling cardboard, good furniture, textiles and all types of batteries.

5 Private and public lanes in Jordanhill

During the last few years there have been several requests by individual residents for information on whether or not their lane is public or private. We have now obtained a definitive map from Land Services showing the situation clearly and this is attached for information. The lanes shown in red are maintained by the City Council (the formal term is “adopted”) wheras the lanes shown in blue are private.

A word of explanation may be required. A public lane means that the City Council maintains the surface of the lane whereas in the case of a private lane, the responsibility for maintenance falls to the adjacent houseowner. Both types of lane are “roads” under the Roads Scotland Act and the public have right of access. Owners of private lanes cannot gate them. For the sake of clarity there is a third type “road” known as a “private access road” (such as the roads within the Jordanhill Campus site) where the owner of the site has to maintain them but has the right to exclude the public from them.

It is worth noting that the random distribution of private lanes resulted from a consultation undertaken by the former Glasgow Corporation a few years before the setting up of Strathclyde Regional Council in 1975. The Corporation generously undertook to take over the maintenance of all lanes in the city unless there were objections from adjoining owners. At that time, a number of totally misguided activists demanded that their lanes remained private and that is what created the present situation. Most likely all these misguided individuals have died or moved away, but we are currently left with the unsatisfactory results of their actions.

Glasgow City Council website contains a wealth of information and we have now discovered that it is possible to obtain the attached map by following a devious trail through the site as follows: go to http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/ then on the home page click on Residents, /then Getting around, /Roads, /Statutory List of Public Roads, /Online mapping, / “access online mapping here” and finally inserting a street name in the table which appears.

Latest: (29.11.07)

Since this website appeared we have been asked what would be involved in having the private lanes adopted by the City Council. When the matter was last raised a few years ago, we were told that adjacent houseowners would have to pay to have the lanes fully reconstructed to a high standard.

Notes last revised 11 June 2008

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