WORK to transform a “dead zone” on the south bank of the River Clyde will continue with £1.2 million funding agreed to deliver the improvements.

Members of the Glasgow’s city administration committee approved the investment from the city deal which will transform Tradeston Bridge and the surrounding public realm. Barclays will match this with £1 million funding of their own.

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Another element of the work planned to continue the redevelopment of Tradeston - the ‘Tradeston Links’ - will see enhanced lighting at three nearby railway underpasses to encourage active travel to and from the emerging Barclays Glasgow Campus.

Council Leader Susan Aitken said: " This has been a part of the city which has been really neglected and on the verge of dereliction for a long time. That little bit of the south bank of the river has been something of a dead zone for quite a long time.