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Dear all,
I would just like to say a huge Thank you for the clear up of Yarrow lane. I back onto Yarrow Lane and have done so for almost 6 years. I have tried valiantly to keep my area and along to the Wilton Street end ( at the corner shop) tidy. A forlorn cause.
What a wonderful surprise to come back from holiday to a beautiful tidy lane! The amazing thing is that, fingers crossed, it remains so.
I am sorry for my tardy response as I am aware this suburb effort was in April.
Once again Thank you.
Yours faithfully
Jill MacDougall
Thanks so much for your appreciation – we should have your comment framed! Hope you like our photos of the day. Come & say hello at the Queen Margaret Drive Festival on Sunday if you’re free.
While it’s great work cleaning up Can I just ask what’s happening with the mountain of rubbish left on my doorstep at the end of the lane? It’s now been there since Saturday and it is stinking
Thankyou Andrew
Hi Andrew – sorry you’ve been inconvenienced because of the rubbish not being collected. It has already been reported to the city council several times, including earlier today. On Saturday afternoon we phoned the council as soon as the cleanup was finished and we were given verbal assurance that the rubbish would be collected. We will be keeping an eye on this. Thanks for getting in touch about this.
Update: The rubbish was cleared a couple of hours later.
I was interested to learn that the £15m River Kelvin Environmental Investment Project by Scottish Water is about to commence; the claim being that it will “improve the environment and water quality in the River Kelvin. However, that may not be so!
Combined Sewage Overflow tanks are no more than a “Y” junction. The inflow is at the bottom and one of the two branches connects to the “continuation” pipe to the treatment works with the other outlet pipe spilling into a water course. They are essential to prevent flooding during heavy rain conditions.
However, the design of the many of the replacement Combined Sewage Overflow tanks in the Glasgow area have the same inflow as before but have a screen grating to divert solids to a throttled continuation pipe outlet with up to 72% reduced flow capacity to save costly treatment. In heavy rain conditions untreated liquid sewage and industrial toxins will spill over a weir within the tank and flow directly into the River Kelvin. This complies with the “Aesthetic Water Quality” designation, which in plain English means what people don’t see they will not complain about.
Worldwide there is concern that the design of CSO tanks with throttled outlets restrict the flow to treatment works but increase the amount and frequency of contaminated surface water, liquid sewage and industrial toxins into water courses and beaches.
The question to ask Scottish Water is: Do these tanks have throttled outlets?
And remember it’s not the diameter that matters; it’s the cross-sectional area.
Thanks for your enquiry. We put your question to Scottish Water and received the following reply. If you have further technical questions, please email us (NKCCsecretary@gmail.com) and we will put you in touch with the Scottish Water manager concerned.
Thanks again for getting in touch.
With regard to the trees that will be planted on site of new school to replace some that have been cleared,hope they will be planted in such a way that they have space to grow and develop and not placed too close together.A lot of what has been cut down was pretty dense in places and never seemed to be maintained or trimmed at any time.Will there be a maintenance programme in place for school site ?Too often is seems that items are planted and just left and never maintained after that.
Hi Alison
There is a landscape maintenance plan for the school site available on the GCC website:
https://publicaccess.glasgow.gov.uk/online-applications/files/CE90BFB892067C8AB1EF8D44EEAB9104/pdf/19_00733_FUL-LANDSCAPE_MAINTENCE-MANAGEMENT_PLAN-4167673.pdf.
If that link doesn’t work, go to the planning page for the school (https://publicaccess.glasgow.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=PO2AYJEXG4O00) and click on the button to the right of “LANDSCAPE MAINTENCE-MANAGEMENT PLAN”.
Hello,
I live in Kelvinside and I see that there is a grand land parcel abandoned next to the children playground at the corner of Kelbourne Street and Queen Margaret Drive. I think it could be a great project to transform this land into a community vegetable garden. If the community council agrees to such project, I would be willing to be involved and help to create it.
Kind regards,
Thank you for raising this. We understand that the land is owned by the Church of Scotland and don’t know what their plans are for it, if any. We are trying to find out more about the possibilities of community ownership in general and will discuss this at our next meeting (5th November – come along if you can!). Thanks again for getting in touch.
We have had some contact from the developer and hope they will attend a meeting in the new year. When they can confirm their attendance we will advertise the meeting here as usual.
Hello,
I live in Kelbourne street and noticed tonight that the kids playpark bordering Kelbourne and Hotspur street has been closed and marked as a construction site.It appears the climbing area with skides is gone. Does anybody know what is happening to it? Has the park been sold to the owners of the site of the ild church?My young son is going to be so upset if his beloved park is gone.
We understand that the park is being refurbished as a playpark (and has not been sold).