Council to clean up city centre lanes

A Glasgow City Council plan to improve lanes in the city centre's gone out for public consultation.

Some have always been well used, and more recently some have transformed into successful public spaces.

However many others are plagued by anti-social behaviour, unauthorised parking and lots of rubbish.

The strategy contains potential actions like events and pop-up activities; improving recycling; public health and community safety; and parking and surfacing.

They want to know what people think of these ideas and so have put it out to public consultation.

A spokesman for Glasgow City Council said: “The lanes network in the city centre is flourishing in some areas, but could undoubtedly be improved in others. The regeneration of these lanes would play a significant role in the ongoing transformation on the city centre, and this draft strategy aims to deliver that. The public consultation will help shape the final plan for the network, and we ask everyone with an interest in the city centre to take part.”

We spoke to Will Christie, the assistant manager of Tabac on Mitchell Lane, he says it's a challenging environment at times:

But he's hopeful this plan could change things: