Glasgow communities can now benefit from a grants programme to enable them to temporarily take on and rejuvenate sites which are currently stalled or unused.

Glasgow City Council, in partnership with Glasgow Housing Association (GHA), has announced the first 21 projects to be given support up to the value of £2500 each, as part of the Community Support for Stalled Spaces initiative.

By promoting the installation of temporary landscaping on vacant sites, Glasgow City Council believes that not only will local people and neighbourhoods benefit, but developers and land owners as well.

Leader of Glasgow City Council, Councillor Gordon Matheson, stated: "Sites in our city which lie empty and unused can depress people and neighbourhoods. We believe that stalled spaces should be an asset in their local community not a magnet for anti-social behaviour.


"Glasgow's innovative approach will assist communities, land owners and developers to gain maximum benefit from a stalled construction site or land which owners haven't been able to sell or develop in the face of the current economic difficulties.

"Although the grants are small, we believe that it will make a great difference to help a community kick start activity on a site to give it back a purpose for all local people to enjoy."

GHA's Executive Director of Development and Regeneration, Alex McGuire, said: "We are always looking for ways which we can improve our neighbourhoods and make them a better place to live for our tenants and factored homeowners.

"We're delighted to be working in partnership with Glasgow City Council to support these community led projects which address local priorities and which complement the investment which we are making throughout the city."

The Stalled Spaces initiative is also assisting with Glasgow's objective to become one of the most sustainable cities in Europe within the next 10 years through the Sustainable Glasgow initiative. Glasgow Stalled Spaces Funding

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