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Friends of Glasgow West Newsletter Friends of Glasgow West Newsletter Issue 46 fgw.org.uk May 2011 Preserving and enhancing the character and amenity of Glasgow’s West End FGW IS A LOCAL AMENITY SOCIETY WITH CHARITABLE STATUS SCO 24748 “FGW Conversazione” CONTENTS Friday 20 MAY 2pm – 3.30pm Conversazione 1 Grosvenor Hilton Hotel West End Festival Events 1 Great Western Rd at Byres Rd Summer 2011 Visit 1 Terrace Bar, First Floor Convener’s Column 2 Tea/Coffee/Scones - £5.50 a head Reports of Recent Events 2 Come Along and Pay on the Day Lansdowne Project 3 Planning Applications 4/5 3 conversation pieces of West End interest… Local Heritage Talks 6 and socialise in comfortable surroundings… Guided Walks 7/8 On Sale: Books/Cards/Hyndland Centenary DVD FGW Committee 8 FGW EVENTS LANSDOWNE EVENTS in the WEST END FESTIVAL in the WEST END FESTIVAL 22 FGW GUIDED WALKS Lansdowne Heritage Day with local history experts including GCHT’s Launch of G. Urquhart’s Lansdowne Book 18 FGW “LOCAL INTEREST” TALKS Sat 18 June, 10am – 4pm at Hillhead Library in assoc. with Glasgow Life, and Art Adventure Day supported by GCC Hillhead Area Committee Sat 11 June, 10am – 6pm Friends of Glasgow West August 2011 Visit West Meets East: Bridgeton Regeneration & CWG2014 Wednesday 17 August 2011, 1 pm – 5 pm with Ian Mitchell, author “Glasgow: This City Now” £15 per person in advance - Includes light refreshments If you wish to attend, PLEASE NOTIFY COLIN COX 0141 337 3735 or [email protected] CONVENER’S COLUMN REPORTS We’ve had a veritable plethora of events This year’s West End Lectures, once since the last issue – reported below. again very competently hosted and And check the front page of this issue - arranged by FGW Secretary Colin Cox, there are plenty more to come! gave a fresh in-depth look at 8 topics of Our planning applications team – current heritage, architectural, musical, Iain Wotherspoon, David Howat, Kate historical and social interest. Audience Richard and myself - continues working feedback was excellent. VERY hard to keep up to date with new The West End Lectures will run in 2012 Planning Legislation, and to look at all – either in Glasgow University DACE, or new proposals for Glasgow West – independently if the necessity arises. about three hundred a year. Recently, During the on-going public campaign we met with Enforcement Section staff to save DACE, FGW wrote a letter of (a separate entity from the one that strong support referring to high-value deals with Planning Applications) to local collaboration over 15 years. discuss some general concerns. Our Conversazione at the Especially notable in June’s West Grosvenor Hilton Hotel in End Festival are Local Heritage Talks March was a pleasant and which we’ve organised in collaboration sociable occasion with with Glasgow Life and Hillhead Library. lovely fresh scones, jam FGW was fortunate to receive support and cream! Roger Guthrie of £1000 from Hillhead Area Committee brought a very heavy cast for these. FGW committee member iron “Elmbank” baluster Mary Donald and I enjoyed working with (see left), David Martin told the highly enthusiastic and competent us about his “Taking Care Katrina Brodin, West Area Libraries of Older Buildings” course, Manager, and her team at Hillhead, to and David Robertson create this year’s new programme. spoke on Cottier’s and New West End Heritage Walks, 10am on Lansdowne. The brief Wednesdays in May, July and August, EGM held that day, will be from Botanic Gardens Main Gates. reported at the 2011 AGM. Introduction to the area and its buildings with David Alcock. Free of charge. At Trades Hall in February, a dozen Partick Heritage Trail by G. Urquhart FGW members were welcomed by Roy was originally published by Partick Fayre. Parkin, toured round many sumptuous Now, with their blessing, it has come rooms, and were then regaled with under FGW’s wing with our other Trails, Trades Hall history and afternoon tea. which we subsequently commissioned The Taking Care of Older Buildings from Gordon, based on the highly eleven-week course, currently running successful original Partick model. FGW at Glasgow Metropolitan College, has funded a recent update to this trail, and attracted a very worthwhile enrolment of Glasgow City Heritage Trust has twenty-three in all – people working in supported us to print 5000 copies of the property management, construction new version. Available at local libraries. trades, planners, an architect and p.2 owners of listed buildings. Lansdowne Heritage Day, 18 June 2011 10.15 am John Honeyman, Architect of Lansdowne with David Stark 11.30am Alf Webster and his Stained Glass, with Robin Webster 2.00pm Book Launch: “A Notable Ornament” Gordon Urquhart, publ Glasgow City Heritage Trust the author Lansdowne Art Adventure, 11 June 2011 Painting demos and workshops, including Alasdair Gray painting all day And Allan Richardson painting outside in the morning Art Photography, exhibition and workshops with Tom Donald Stained Glass Demonstrations: Steve Richard - Etched Glass: Junko Eager Further details on all West End Festival Events: fgw.org.uk HISTORIC SCOTLAND A NOTE FROM LANSDOWNE COTTIER CONFERENCE Lansdowne Parish Church continues its Held within the restored in Cottier fruitful collaboration with Friends of Theatre building itself, this Glasgow West, Four Acres Charitable Trust conference was entitled “Before and other interested parties from the Mackintosh: Daniel Cottier, William community. The church and halls are a Leiper and the “First Glasgow busy community hub, used recreationally, School” for music and arts, dance and theatre, social action and 'interest groups', health The conference coincided with and well-being, religion and spirituality... Sir Angus Grossart’s launch of the excellent new HS publication about Elsewhere you will find news of the West Daniel Cottier, “Cottier in Context”, End Festival Art Day, local walks and the edited by David Robertson. launch of historian Gordon Urquhart's definitive new book about Lansdowne. In An audience of seventy heard tandem with FACT and FGW we also fascinating presentations from a wide anticipate the formation of Friends of range of experts: David Robertson, Lansdowne in due course. Dr Hilary McCartney, Ranald MacInnes, Prof. John Hume, Michael The Church of Scotland's Presbytery of Davis, Simon Green, Linda Cannon, Glasgow is reviewing its strategic plan. At Max Donnelly, Dr Elizabeth Cumming time of writing I cannot say what the and David Mitchell. outcome will be. Meanwhile in Lansdowne we work with our parish grouping, The conference was so well received Presbytery and people of good will, towards that highlights are being run again on continuing an open, welcoming and Friday 24 June – see foot of p6. cooperative Christian presence within the site. Roy Henderson p.3 CURRENT WEST END PLANNING APPLICATIONS AN OVERVIEW of what we do… Of course a few proposals are Thankfully, three-quarters of the three irrevocably unacceptable, e.g. because hundred or so planning applications they involve unjustified listed building made annually in Glasgow West demolition, or major irreversible damage Conservation Area are fine, and will to the character of the Conservation indeed “preserve or enhance the Area: here we often work with character of the Conservation Area” as community councils and other local stated in Glasgow City Plan 2. residents in a vigorous public campaign. Such development delivers the kind of Where we have seen that the long-term improvement to the area’s independent, high-quality information Victorian and Edwardian building stock necessary for well-considered planning which we have all seen over recent years. decisions, is deficient or even lacking, we have commissioned professional Glasgow West Conservation Area: evidence, such as the Engineering - is a long-standing, already-developed, Structural Report for Botanic Gardens built-up neighbourhood, Garage by John Addison, and the more recent Conservation Appraisal of Otago - is covered by Article 4 directions Lane, produced by MAST Architects (additional conservation controls), with FGW’s Iain Wotherspoon. - has over three hundred listed Large increases in Licensing provision buildings, many of them grade A, have occurred in the West End: we - has a very high planning applications supported the “Overprovision” case for rate, both in city and national terms, Byres Road, and are very concerned - is a place where money-making from about the concentration and scale of development is relatively easy. alcohol provision in Ashton Lane. FGW guiding principles are based on: PROGRESS ON HOUSES OF MULTIPLE OCCUPATION (HMOs) - National Planning Legislation By Jean Charsley - Glasgow City Plan 2 We did it! Councils and licensing - Glasgow West Conservation Area Appraisal boards can now take into account over- - Our experience and understanding of provision of HMOs in an area, licensing local trends and the local scene. boards can refuse to consider a licence For any initially unacceptable proposals, until planning has been settled, and we often suggest various improvements most remarkable of all, Pauline in specific detail to make them more McNeill's amendments designed to acceptable under Glasgow City Plan 2. enable licensing boards to refuse a licence if a room has been subdivided We think this is worthwhile, as our or kitchens or bathrooms moved from suggestions (which technically we have original vertically stacked services in a to couch as “objections”) are definitely tenement, were accepted by unanimous taken up in some cases, often being vote. Jean and others were thanked by incorporated as “conditions of consent”. MSPs for their efforts. Our own FGW full appreciation is recorded here too! p.4 SAVE OTAGO LANE Campaign CLOUSTON STREET Having withdrawn the previous Otago This site, also known as North Kevin Lane development application in Meadow, is a large plot of GCC land, to January, the developer lodged a be sold to a developer for about £10m, reduced application in February with with the intention of being partly built much the same footprint, and broadly over, and some left as public space.
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