Planning | Dennistoun Community Council

Whitehill Pool Working Group

Thanks to everyone who attended the meeting to revitalise the Save Whitehill Pool campaign last night.

Bill Stark chaired, welcoming new faces and introducing people who provided valuable support back in the early years of the original campaign.

The meeting itself provided great community input, in terms of personal experiences, and hopes for the future over the current closure of Whitehill Pool.

Video of Whitehill Pool Meeting Held on 8th April 2025

A follow-up meeting will be held in the upstairs room at Reidvale Neighbourhood Centre, 13 Whitevale Street, Glasgow G31 1QW, on Tuesday 29th April at 7pm.

Whitehill Pool Follow-up Meeting

We're still here! Save Whitehill Pool. — We’re still here! Save Whitehill Pool.

Dennistoun Community Council is following up on our recent public meeting about Whitehill Pool with a community-only meeting for people who’d like to be actively involved with the campaign to save the pool.

Whitehill Pool Meeting Summary

Summary

Last night’s meeting to address uncertainties about Whitehill Pool was productive.

Thank you to all members of the public who attended and contributed. The comments and questions left no doubt about how important the pool is to our community.

There is clearly no easy fix as significant capital funding is required.

Commitments

Glasgow Life gave several commitments:

They will improve communication and supply Dennistoun Community Council with monthly progress updates, leading to a Glasgow Life report presenting approximately 4-6 options to Glasgow City Council, to be completed by August.
They will liaise with swimming clubs about the possibility of supplying a bus service to other pools while Whitehill is closed.
There will be no further imposition of items such as the hated metal fence, without consultation. The exception would be if something was urgently required for safety reasons.

It was reiterated that Glasgow Life cannot opt for permanent closure of the pool: to do that would require councillors voting to do so.

Whitehill Pool 2025 – What’s Happening?

A meeting to establish the answers

Dennistoun Community Council (DCC) will be hosting a meeting to establish the answers to the many questions surrounding the future of Whitehill Pool.

The meeting will take place on Tuesday 8th April, at Reidvale Neighbourhood Centre, 13 Whitevale Street, G31 1QW.

Glasgow City Network Consultation

Cumbernauld Road Concept Visualisation
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Concept and Aims

Glasgow City Council has set out the concept of a City Network to provide a dense network of improved high-quality infrastructure across Glasgow, to be delivered by 2031. It is seeking your views on the latest proposals.

Engagement on Road Safety, Traffic and Parking in Dennistoun

Survey

Glasgow City Council (GCC) are seeking views on road safety, traffic, and parking in Dennistoun.

Dennistoun Community Council (DCC) encourages all residents, businesses and visitors to take part in the survey available via glasgow.gov.uk/dennistounparking, before the closing date of 13 October 2024.

Dennistoun and Royston Parking Survey

Glasgow City Council arranged for an external contractor to carry out parking surveys in five of the areas where commitments have been made to proposing parking controls. The parking survey results for the Dennistoun and Royston area have now been made available.

Neighbourhood Infrastructure Improvement Fund recommendations to Dennistoun Area Partnership

Glasgow City Council (GCC) have advised that, for the Dennistoun Community Council (DCC) proposals for pedestrian infrastructure improvements, in and around our area to be progressed as part of the £1 million per ward Neighbourhood Infrastructure Improvement Fund (NIIF), they require approval by the Dennistoun Area Partnership (DAP).

Since receiving that GCC response to DCC, the DAP meeting agenda for 19 September 2023 has been published. It can be viewed here. Item 3 provides an NIIF update report, accompanied by appendices listing various GCC proposals for £252,000 of road maintenance resurfacing work.

With the above noted, DCC provided the below information and recommendations to all councillors for the Dennistoun and Calton wards, and the GCC Neighbourhoods Liaison Manager.

A PDF of the below submission can be viewed here.

Proposals for Improvements to Pedestrian Infrastructure Provision

Dennistoun Community Council (DCC) recently compiled and submitted proposals to Glasgow City Council (GCC) identifying potential improvements to pedestrian infrastructure provision in and around our area.

A PDF of the full document can be viewed here. Images of each individual page of the document can be viewed below the summary that follows.

Updates: 12 September 2023: The GCC response to DCC can now be found at the bottom of this post. 18 September: DCC recommendations to the DAP can be found in a separate update post here.