Community Council Meeting - July 2021

Read the approved minutes of this meeting

AGENDA

  1. Welcome by Vice-Chair (Tam Coyle)
  2. Apologies
  3. Minutes of the last meeting, approval and action points
  4. Matters arising not on the agenda
  5. Report from the Treasurer (Gerald)
  6. Report on those issues forwarded to the police (Tam)
  7. Councillors’ Reports
  8. Planning Applications (Peter)
  9. Licensing Applications (Tam)
  10. Merchant City Park update (Peter and Eileen)
  11. Report on social media platforms and related matters (Niall)
  12. AOCB

 

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Community Council Meeting - August 2021

Everyone who lives in the Merchant City and Trongate areas of Glasgow is warmly invited to join us for our August meeting, to be held on 31 August 2021 at 7pm via Zoom.

AGENDA

1. Welcome by Chair (Duncan MacLaren, Chair)
2. Apologies
3. Minutes of the last meeting, approval and action points (Please read the Draft minutes before the meeting)
4. Matters arising not on the agenda
5. Report from the Treasurer (Gerald Hirst)
6. Report on those issues forwarded to the police (Tam Coyle and all)
7. MSP and Councillors’ Reports
8. Planning Applications, and a Plan for Pedestrianising part of the Merchant City (Peter Hayman)
9. Licensing Applications (Tam Coyle)
10. Report on the tour of the Waterfront on Clydeside (Scott Thornton)
11. Update on Merchant City Park (Eileen Mills and Peter Hayman)
12. Report from the social media manager (Niall McColl)
13. Local Issues: street cleaning in Trongate and the Merchant City (David Cowan); Ramsgate Graveyard (Duncan MacLaren); Drug Issues (Tam Coyle).
14. AOCB

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Community Council Meeting - September 2021

Join us for our September meeting, when we will have a presentation from BIG Partnership about the St Enoch Masterplan

AGENDA

  1. Welcome by Chair (Duncan MacLaren)
  2. Apologies
  3. Presentation on St. Enochs Masterplan by Big Partnership https://st-enoch.com/masterplan/
  4. Minutes of the last meeting, approval and action points. Please review the draft minutes before the meeting here
  5. Matters arising not on the agenda
  6. Report from the Treasurer (Gerald)
  7. Report on those issues forwarded to the police (Tam)
  8. MPs, MSPs and Councillors’ Reports
  9. Planning Applications, and a plan for pedestrianising part of the Merchant City (Peter)
  10. Licensing Applications (Tam)
  11. Establishing a 'Friends of the Ramshorn' Group (Duncan)
  12. Merchant City Park update (Eileen and Peter)
  13. Report on social media platforms and related matters (Niall)
  14. Addressing local issues - street cleaning in Trongate and the Merchant City (David); letter to businesses (Scott)
  15. AOCB

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AGM and Community Council Meeting - October 2021

Our AGM and normal meeting will take place on 26 October 2021.

Register for this meeting.

Annual General Meeting

  1. Welcome by Chair (Duncan MacLaren, Chair)
  2. Apologies
  3. Minutes of AGM held on 25th October 2019 (there were no AGMs in 2020 because of the pandemic): to be voted on. Draft minutes: AGM 25 October 2019.
  4. Chairman’s Report (Duncan MacLaren)
  5. Financial Report (Gerald Hirst)
  6. Appointment of Auditor

(Please note that office-bearers will be elected at the AGM in 2023 according to Steven Dowling’s office. However, if anyone wants to become a community councillor or, indeed, an office bearer, he/she should declare him/herself).

MCTCC: Ordinary Meeting 

  1. Minutes of the September 2021 meeting, approval and action points. Draft Minutes
  2. Report from the Treasurer (Gerald Hirst)
  3. Report on those issues forwarded to the police (Tam Coyle and all)
  4. MP’s, MSP’s and Councillors’ Reports
  5. Planning Applications (Peter Hayman)
  6. Licensing Applications (Tam Coyle)
  7. Establishing a ‘Friends of the Ramshorn Group’ (Duncan MacLaren)
  8. Update on Merchant City Park (Eileen Mills and Peter Hayman)
  9. Report from the social media manager (Niall McColl)
  10. COP26: discussion (introduction by Duncan MacLaren)
  11. Local Issues: Drug Issues (Tam Coyle), No Fibre Broadband in Glasgow City Centre (David Cowan).
  12. AOCB - Next meeting: 30th November 2021 at 7pm.

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Community Council Meeting - November 2021

Everyone in the Merchant City & Trongate community is invited to join us for our last meeting of 2021, to be held via Zoom. 

AGENDA

1. Welcome by Vice Chair (Tam Coyle)
2. Passing of MCTCC Treasurer Gerald Hirst
3. Minutes of the 26th October meeting, approval and action points
4. Report on those issues forwarded to the police (Tam Coyle)
5. MP’s, MSP’s and Councillors’ Reports
6. Planning Applications
7. Licensing Applications (Tam Coyle)
8. Report from the social media manager (Niall McColl)
    including the printing of leaflets
9. Local Issues: Warner Bros. filming meeting,
    Ramshorn Church, Distribution leaflets to businesses
10. AOCB

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Ghosts - A National Theatre Production

I am Glasgow.
Built with my blood,
My sweat, my dying.

A young man in 18th Century Glasgow, leads us on atmospheric journey of 500+ years of resistance through the streets of the Merchant City down to the River Clyde.

Download the app, plug in your headphones, and lose yourself in this poetic storytelling experience, exploring the myth of Scotland's collective amnesia of slavery and racialised wealth, of empire and identity.

Surrounded by AR visuals, haunting voices and music, Ghosts will take you on a physical and emotional journey. A lament to lives lost and an impassioned call to action in the present day. Take a socially distanced walk through the heart of modern Glasgow and see an essential vision of the city.

Written and Directed by Adura Onashile.

A National Theatre of Scotland Production.

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(Y)our Merchant City Workshops

How would you improve the Merchant City? What projects do you think would make a difference? What would you support and like to see happen?

An Action Plan and Framework for the regeneration of the Merchant City is currently being prepared by a consultant team appointed by Glasgow City Council. We want your input to help shape and influence the priority projects to improve the Merchant City.

The Merchant City, alongside the Learning Quarter, Townhead and Cowcaddens, is the focus of the current phase of (Y)our City Centre District Regeneration Frameworks. And now is the time to have your say.

Work To Date has included talking to the community and stakeholders and finding out you think the priorities and opportunities are. From over 5,000 comments we have pulled together emerging priority projects listed below. You can check out what’s been said so far and contribute your thoughts online at https://yourcitycentre2020.commonplace.is/ and http://www.yourplacemap.org/

All events are free and will be held on Zoom. Please see below Programme Events and attend any of the sessions that peak your interest. We will be running a full programme of events (see programme below) throughout the day so feel free to sign-up to as many of the sessions as you like! The day will kick-off with a Co-Design Launch with a series of exciting workshops taking place throughout the day. We will wrap up the day event with a final evening session where we will report back on findings.

Check out (Y)OUR MERCHANT CITY for more information

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REGISTER NOW - Glasgow Kelvin Constituency Hustings - Merchant City & Trongate (Ward 10)

REGISTER NOW - Glasgow Kelvin Constituency Hustings - Merchant City & Trongate (Ward 10) Thursday 29th April, from 7pm - 9pm, join us online for a hustings featuring the candidates standing for the Glasgow Kelvin constituency vote in Ward 10. 

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Community Council Meeting - April 2021

All residents of the Merchant City & Trongate area are invited to join our meeting via Microsoft Teams.

Agenda

  1. Welcome by Chair (Duncan MacLaren)
  2. Apologies
  3. Minutes of the last meeting, approval and action points
  4. Presentation by Denise Hamilton, City Centre Manager, GCC
  5. Report from the Treasurer (Gerald)
  6. Report on those issues forwarded to the police (Tam)
  7. Hustings on 29th April (Daniel)
  8. Merchant City Park update (Peter and Eileen)
  9. Councillors’ Reports
  10. Planning Applications (Peter)
  11. Licensing Applications (Tam)
  12. Report on survey of residents and using MS Teams and other relevant communication matters (Niall)
  13. Addressing local issues –Drug issues (Tam); proposed Jocelyn Square development (Duncan); Ramshorn Graveyard (Duncan)
  14. AOCB

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