Bishopbriggs Town Centre Regeneration
Place and Growth Programme
This project element of the Council’s City Deal Place and Growth Programme will play a key role in the regeneration of Bishopbriggs town centre to create a more attractive town centre, with a high-quality environment that is sustainable over the long term and meets the needs of the community and its partners.
The Project Objectives align with national, regional and local strategies for business and economic development, infrastructure and spatial planning.
Objectives include:
- Attracting investment and reduce vacancy rates – businesses value proximity to public space and the quality of the streetscape to attract customers or tenants
- Attracting visitors – people are more likely to want to shop in a well-designed and more aesthetic environment
- Increasing tourism – investment in the physical environment is critical for attracting tourists
- Enhancing image and civic pride – high-quality public realm can improve perceptions and investor confidence in an area, building a positive image and reputation, and consequently providing a basis for growth.
This will be enabled through improvements to the wider public realm and physical environment with the creation of flexible outdoor commercial/community space in the form of a new Civic Space. An online exhibition was made available in the June 2023.
The improvements will be largely informed by the Public Realm Plan for Bishopbriggs town centre by adopting the actions implicit within East Dunbartonshire Council’s Local Development Plan (LDP), the emerging LDP2 and the Bishopbriggs Town Centre Strategy.
The project aims to create a well-connected, vibrant and sustainable local economy, improving quality of life for residents and attracting investment to the area in the long term.
Consultation
An online exhibition was published in June 2023, which presented designs for the new Civic Space in Bishopbriggs town centre.
These were available to view on 17 June 2023 in BetterBriggs Community Garden (at the Triangle Shopping Centre, next to St Matthew's Church) – where the new Civic Space will be created.
For more information, visit the archived Bishopbriggs Public Realm webpage and visit our News section.
Full Business Case
A Full Business Case for the Civic Space was approved at a meeting of the Council on Thursday 18 December 2025 and submitted to the Glasgow City Region Cabinet for approval, to release the funding.
Subject to all necessary approvals and consents, work is scheduled to start in March 2026, with completion in late 2026/early 2027.
You can view the report presented to the meeting of the Council by visiting the Committee Diary section.
Contacts
Michael Rice
Team Leader
City Deal
Bishopbriggs Civic Space
Bishopbriggs Civic Space
An online exhibition was published in June 2023, which presented designs for the new Civic Space in Bishopbriggs town centre.
These were available to view on 17 June 2023 in BetterBriggs Community Garden (at the Triangle Shopping Centre, next to St Matthew's Church) – where the new Civic Space will be created.
For more information, visit the archived page.
Contacts
Ceara Pimley
Team Leader
City Deal