Council sets up extra session to discuss designs after complaints

RESIDENTS have complained they were not involved in a community consultation on ambitious proposals to redesign a South Side area.

Battlefield Street Design is an ongoing project to make the centre of Battlefield and Battlefield Road more pedestrian and cycle friendly.

Community engagement on the scheme, developed by Sustrans Scotland, took place last year.

But locals in Queen’s Drive, which is attached to Battlefield Road, said they were left out of the consultation process.

Now Glasgow City Council bosses have said they will hold another event – and Queen’s Drive residents will be contacted directly to invite them.

Local councillor Soryia Siddique said: “Queen’s Drive residents contacted me regarding not been included in the Sustrans consultation.

“I raised this with Glasgow City Council and they have now arranged another session allowing residents to discuss the concept design drawings produced by Sustrans.

“This is an opportunity for the local community’s views to be taken on board.”

Although it is not part of the nearby South City Way, a cycle route being developed to run from Queen’s Park, down Victoria Road to the Merchant City, the potential new cycle route would form a connection to it.

This would run along Battlefield Road to the Battlefield Rest and on to Mount Florida.

Last year design ideas were on display from March 19 for three weeks to give locals the chance to see the street design project plans.