A TEMPORARY city green space is likely to remain in place for the next 12 months.

Barrowlands Park, next to Glasgow Cross in the East End, was built earlier this year with around £700,000 worth of funding.

The land has always been earmarked for development - but residents launched a petition urging the council to make it the park permanent.

As the Evening Times reported a week ago, local man Thomas McMahon started the petition in a bid to save the park and its accompanying artwork, the Barrowlands Album Pathway.

He has now gathered more than 5000 signatures.

Now, a Glasgow City Council spokesman has said the park is unlikely to be redeveloped in the next year.

The spokesman said: "The park was always meant to be a medium-term solution.

"We always knew it might be developed three years from now or 12 years from now.

"At this stage it looks like it is not going to be developed next year."

The council stressed that the artwork is permanent - if developers tear up the site it will be moved to a nearby streets.

The artwork, which honours the nearby Barrowland Ballroom, lists the more than 2000 bands who have played there in the past 30 years.

It was created by former Turner Prize nominee Jim Lambie.

The council spokesman added: "The art work is permanent.

"If the space is developed the art work will be moved.

"We are considering two places in nearby streets."

Before the gap site was turned into a park in June this year, it was derelict, and at one point was the site of the historic Schipka Pass.

rachel.loxton@ eveningtimes.co.uk