Monday August 17th 2026
Queens Park glasshouse
Written by Local Democracy Reporter, Sarah Hilley
Efforts will be made to ensure the much-loved Queens Park glasshouse stays open to the public and cash is found to bring it back to an “excellent standard” and restore the dome, a meeting heard.
Campaigners presented a petition with roughly 13,000 signatures to a council committee yesterday demanding the council retain and invest in the landmark.
Now a consultation is to be launched and officials will try and find funding to transform the deteriorating community attraction.
The development comes after the council announced in June it would have to close in August as running costs were unsustainable.
It is claimed the council has been trying to work with and organisation regarding the future of the south side leisure facility.
Presenting the petition to councillors yesterday, Ben Kritikos said any moves to hand the glass house to a “private tenant” should be halted until a public consultation is held.
Speaking at the wellbeing, equalities, communities, culture and engagement city policy committee, he said campaigners “recommend the council retain and invest in the glasshouse as a publicly owned and council managed space.”
He added: “The glasshouse was built with public money, paid for by generations of Glaswegians and it belongs to us. It is not a line in a spreadsheet. It is a place of memory, respite, wonder and belonging and we won’t let it disappear through a decision that was never honestly put to the people who own it.”
All council parties agreed to undertake a “public and transparent consultation” and report back to a committee within six months.
It was also decided the council would publish “feasibility studies and investment requirements for Queens Park glasshouse,” and identify funding sources to “bring the building and facilities back to an excellent standard and reinstate and restore the Queens Park glasshouse dome”.
Among other measures, councillors also pledged to ensure “that any future use of the Queens Park glasshouse maintains public access and enhanced public facilities”.
Speaking after the meeting, councillor and MSP Holly Bruce said in a statement: “This is an important victory for the campaigners who refused to let this much-loved building be abandoned. Our amendment has secured action to save our Glasshouse in Queen’s Park.”
The Scottish Greens representative who attended the meeting added: ““The Glasshouse is a really special place for people across the Southside. Generations of families have created memories, visited, learned and spent time together there. It deserves the investment and imagination to give it a long-term future for more generations to come.”
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