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Bowling green beef in G3
There’s a battle bubbling away in a Finnieston backstreet, as residents of St Vincent Crescent have until Friday to decide whether they support a community buyout of the local bowling green — once home to Corunna Bowling Club. The catch? It’ll now be much more expensive.
The green was valued at £250,000 when surveyed in December 2024. But, after a March meeting of the council’s planning committee, where councillors were “minded” to grant planning permission for 20 flats to be built on the site, the land is now valued at over ten times more — £2.9 million — according to local campaigners.
Calum reported on the backstory for the dispute last September. Many of Glasgow’s bowling clubs, in the face of falling membership, have opted to sell some or all of their green spaces to developers who want to build housing on the land. In some cases, as with Mount Florida Bowling Club and in the present case of Corunna, club members personally benefited from selling up (to the tune of tens of thousands of pounds).
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