A new community garden is being built in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire.

Plans by Clydebank Housing Association (HA) involve developing the new facility on vacant land in Radnor Park.

In April 2017, CHA was successful in securing funding from the Scottish Government’s Climate Challenge Fund (CCF) for their Community Gardening and Cycling Project. The scheme will expand Clydebank HA's community growing project already in place at Centre81, Whitecrook, to Radnor Park by creating its own community garden as well as including a cycling aspect to promote wellbeing and sustainable transport.


In addition, the funding allowed the HA to appoint two staff members to manage the project; Andy McCann as Green Project Officer and Donald Campbell as Community Gardner.

Sharon Keenan, Chief Executive of Clydebank HA, said: "Of course all of this will not just benefit our Radnor Park residents by providing a community growing space for them to get actively involved in but it will also go some way to address climate change by reducing carbon emissions in the process.

"We have already received interest from some of our Radnor Park residents to get involved and we hope that this will increase and extend to other members of the community, the local schools and nursery groups as the project gets up and running."

(LM)