ALMOST £70,000 is expected to be granted to create a children’s play area and woodland community space in North Toryglen Transformational Regeneration Area (TRA).

Both projects sit within the wider greenspace strategy for the area, which aims to attract a capital budget of almost £3.3million.

Glasgow City Council’s city administration committee will meet this Thursday to discuss the ENV2 funding proposal for the project which comes from contributions from the development of Crudens’ housebuilding scheme.

North Toryglen is one of Glasgow’s eight TRAs with a greenspace group already set up.

They have benefited from funding from the council, the Scottish Government, Scottish Natural Heritage, Green Infrastructure Fund, SUSTRANS and Transforming Communities: Glasgow.

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The main partners of this sub-group - Glasgow City Council, Clyde Gateway and Urban Roots - have now drawn up proposals for improvements to the area, following public consultation events.

They include the delivery of new public space, parkland and a network of sustainable transport routes in a bid to make the area more permeable while raising the profile for residents and visitors.

The creation of the children’s play area and the woodlands community space will be important part of these proposals to come and will be delivered by the summer of 2022.

Extensive demolition of unpopular housing stocks has already cleared land for new houses, with 100 socially-rented homes for Glasgow Housing Association tenants displaced by demolition and 104 homes for sale built.

Another 127 for sale are either on site or planned. The area also now has a 120-bed elderly care home.

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Councillor Susan Aitken, Leader of Glasgow City Council, said: “While the standard of housing in North Toryglen has been transformed in recent years, there have been issues with the quality of open space, accessibility and connections to surroundings areas.

“The new children’s play area and woodlands community space will be the first of a series of projects to tackles these issues, allowing the community the chance to fully enjoy their local spaces.”

Proposals will be discussed later in the week by councillors.