A PLAN to restore the historic bandstand in Kelvingrove Park has been given a £60,000 cash injection.
A PLAN to restore the historic bandstand in Kelvingrove Park has been given a £60,000 cash injection.
It is one of a range of environmental projects to benefit from a £700,000 boost from Glasgow City Council.
The council is allowed to give a percentage of the cash it is due to pay in landfill tax to local organisations.
Since the scheme was launched, the council has distributed about £8million to more than 100 projects.
Among the latest to benefit is the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust, which will receive a £60,000 grant for the Kelvingrove bandstand.
The trust has drawn up two possible options for repairing and re-opening the bandstand for concerts and events - believed to cost around £1m - which are now being considered by the council.
The B-listed bandstand dates from 1924-1925. It was used for outdoor concerts from the 1950s to the 1990s but fell into disuse in recent years.
Stars including Belle and Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub and Franz Ferdinand have backed calls for it to reopen as a community facility.
The Scottish Wildlife Trust gets £46,640 for a project at Cathkin Marsh, almost £89,000 is allocated to Hogganfield Park local nature reserve and the Land Trust gets more than £110,000 to refurbish the Tramway arts venue.
The biggest grant of more than £131,000 is awarded to the appeal for the new Riverside Museum at Glasgow Harbour.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds will receive more than £7200, Castlemilk Environment Trust will get £50,000 towards the cost of the Downcraig green corridor, £96,000 will go to the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust for work on St Margaret's Church in Newlands, and Score Environment/EB Scotland will be awarded £50,500 for the King's Park stable block.
Jim McNally, the city council's executive member for land and environmental services, said: "It is important our communities are able to benefit directly from the taxes generated. These awards will ensure environmental projects across Glasgow worth tens of millions of pounds are supported."
