Sauchiehall Street: Culture and Heritage District

A black and white images of Sauchiehall Street.

Sauchiehall Street: Culture and Heritage District is the development of a bold 10-year plan to renew Sauchiehall Street. With funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund UK-wide Heritage Places programme, and in partnership with Glasgow City Council, we completed an Exploration phase programme working with cultural organisations, businesses and communities to celebrate the past and plan for the future by:

 

Uncovering its roots: examining the stories that shaped Sauchiehall Street’s history. 


Animating the streets: hosting events and activities that bring people together. 


Renewing its charm: revitalising historic buildings to sustain our communities.

 

Sauchiehall Street is the spine of the project, bookended by the Mitchell Library and The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. The project also takes in the adjacent streets: Bath Street and Renfrew Street, as well as the Garnethill community. 

In 2026, if successful in our next stage of funding, we will deliver a Proof-of-Concept phase. This will be a two-year programme of work to test out ideas and new, collaborative ways of working with cultural organisations, businesses and communities.

Highlights & Upcoming

Explore our interactive heritage map, find out about our full programme in our project space, or upcoming activities here.

A black and white image of the old ABC cinema on Sauchiehall Street, from street view. Image courtesy of Glasgow City Archives

Uncovering Sauchiehall Street

Uncovering focuses on bringing the area's intangible heritage to life. We invite artists, researchers and community groups to capture the history which lives in the memories and stories of the people who live, work and visit the area.

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Garnetbank Public School: exterior (children at drill), 1916. Image courtesy of Glasgow City Archives

Animating Sauchiehall Street

Working with cultural organisations, this strand of programme focuses on public cultural activities, which create moments of collective joy and animate the street.

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A black and white image of people lining in a queue for the bus on Sauchiehall Street from 1958

Renewing Sauchiehall Street

Working closely with Glasgow City Council, we will identify future ambitions and new uses for heritage buildings on the street, looking towards their renewal.

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Groups of people sitting down at tables look at a PowerPoint screen during a workshop at the Centre for Contemporary Arts on Sauchiehall Street.

Project Context

Find out more about National Lottery Heritage Fund's new UK-wide Heritage Places programme, the context behind our discovery phase project, and what comes next.

Read more here

We want to hear from communities, organisations and people who would like to contribute to the development of Sauchiehall Street: Culture and Heritage District.

Have your say by getting in touch at: amcv@glasgowlife.org.uk

Header image used with the kind permission of the Herald and Glasgow Times. 

Archive images are courtesy of the City Archives at Mitchell Library.