College Facilities: Local Amenities |
Easterhouse:
At the Easterhouse campus, students can access the new Culture & Sport - Glasgow swimming pool within The Bridge.
The Bridge incorporates a theatre, learning centre, library, gallery, dance studio and cafe area which are open to the whole community. The National Theatre of Scotland Young Company, which has its home within the new building, has already staged several highly successful performances in its Easterhouse facility.
The campus is less than half a mile from the stylish Glasgow Fort Shopping Centre, Glasgow’s most modern and easily accessible shopping plaza which boasts a wide range of quality stores and street cafes. Many of the jobs in the Glasgow Fort have been successfully filled by local residents. The area is well served by public transport.
The new, regenerated neighbourhoods of Easterhouse are unrecognisable from the schemes of the 1970s and 80s, where a massive rebuilding and refurbishment programme has radically altered the physical structure of the area. Although work remains to be done in some pockets, there is now a real positive attitude within the community and a great sense of civic pride in the changes that are taking place.
East End
The College’s new East End campus building boasts its own relaxing coffee shop
and is less than ten minutes walk from The Forge Shopping Centre which plays host to a wide range of high street stores, supermarkets and cafes, as well as a cinema complex.
The award-winning building is opposite the Bluevale Hall, which has outdoor basketball and football facilities, and it is ten minutes walk from the new Haghill Sports Centre at Haghill Primary School.
Similar to Easterhouse, the East End is undergoing a massive redevelopment and regeneration programme, linked to the Clyde Gateway initiative and East End Regeneration Corridor. The new National Indoor Sports Arena and Velodrome are planned for the area and will be sited a little over a mile from the new campus.
Excitingly, the Commonwealth Games in 2014 promises to ensure widespread regeneration of the areas south of the new East End campus, bringing new homes and amenities to the city.
Although already extremely well served by bus services, the area’s rail service is set to improve by the repositioning of the Parkhead station which will ultimately be a few minutes from the new campus building.