GISI Project Updates

Rising from the rubble of the demolished St Eunan’s Primary School site is the new Melfort Park. The site was contaminated, making it unsuitable for housing development, forcing a change of plan.

In 2009 the local community around Toryglen began work with Urban Roots to manage Malls Mire woodlands. Now open is the £3.3m Malls Mire Park, revealing a fantastic transformation.

Can you spot the Isle of Arran? Yes, that is how amazing the views are. Make sure you use the chute. Join Robert Alston on a tour of this site, and you will come away enthused with how people can really make a difference.

Adaica Rodriguez has certainly packed variety into her working life. She has enjoyed an interesting career. However, a stint working in Aberdeen on a Green Infrastructure site remains amongst her fondest memories.

Garnock’s Buzzing is one of 28 projects being undertaken by Garnock Connections, a landscape partnership funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

To spend time talking with Peter Livingstone is an uplifting experience. His enthusiasm for trees, planting, and habitat creation is infectious. Peter’s passion and knowledge have been key components in the Garnock Connections project.

The completion of ambitious works to transform greenspaces adjacent to Moss Heights high-rise flats.

The redevelopment of the former site of St Eunan’s Primary School into a thriving Community Park at a time when biodiversity loss and climate change concerns are high on the agenda is a significant success.

It is widely accepted that children who experience outdoor learning are likely to be healthier, happier and better motivated than those confined to indoor classrooms. This is where Scotland’s Green Infrastructure Fund comes in.

You have to journey back to around 1791 to trace the roots of the Forth and Clyde canal extension that links Hamiltonhill and Port Dundas. Then the existence of a thriving Clay Pit proved crucial in sourcing a local lining material for the expanding canal network.