THE announcement the city council will be spending £400million on a wide range of infrastructure schemes over the next decade has understandably sparked resentment in some areas.

Last year, the Scottish Government and Westminster agreed to contribute £500m each into a spending pot which was topped up to £1.1billion by Glasgow and surrounding councils.

Almost half the money will be spent in the city on schemes including improving roads and pavements, building new bridges to link communities, upgrading drainage, creating avenues of trees and segregated cycle lanes.

Other councils in the West of Scotland will also benefit from the cash bonanza.

Unfortunately, groups pressing for their own improvements can only look on in envy as the City Deal money is ring fenced and can only be used on government approved schemes.

But while some will feel they are losing out, spending so much cash on six key projects in the city will undoubtedly bring benefits to many thousands of people.

For some, the spending cannot come too soon as lack of cash has forced the council to hold back on projects it would dearly have loved to have pressed ahead with.

Today, the general feeling in the council is that the city has survived the worst of the recession in remarkable shape and thanks to the a cash injection for the Commonwealth Games has even moved forward.

The Velodrome and Athletes' Village may have been built for the Games but are now very much part of the city and its future, as is the stunning new Hydro.

Glasgow's confidence in itself is proving to be infectious and developers are again lodging planning applications for new housing developments.

For years, it seemed the only planning applications going before councillors were for student flats or from householders looking to improve their properties rather than move home.

The fact much of the city centre is going to be given a facelift can only further boost confidence in a city which not only survived the world spotlight of the Games but absolutely blossomed.