New Funding to Move Meat Market Project to the Next Stage

The regeneration of the historic Meat Market Sheds in Glasgow's East End is to be boosted by £600,000 of additional Regeneration Capital Grant Fund and £400,000 of additional Glasgow City Council support.

The RCGF is a Scottish Government Programme that supports projects that deliver large-scale improvements to deprived areas and engage local communities to bring sustainable regeneration, and the additional funding for the Meatmarket Market project was accepted at a council committee. 

The additional RCGF and GCC support will enable the Meat Market Regeneration Community Interest Company to create world-class padel tennis courts at the Meat Market Sheds, and progress other elements of the project, including community and business space. 

The wider 10 hectares Meat Market site has been vacant since the turn of the century, and now features 500 new affordable homes, with the regeneration project led by the Community Interest Company to deliver not only the padel courts and community and business space, but a linear park, active travel route and other features. 

The total RCGF support for the project totals £3.932million. The additional GCC funding comes from the Bringing Property Into Purposeful Use Fund and the Community Asset Fund (£200,000 from each). Further project funding comes from the Glasgow City Region City Deal and the Scottish Government's Vacant and Derelict Land Fund. 

The next phase of the project is expected to begin in the autumn of 2026. 

Councillor Ruairi Kelly, Convener for Built Heritage, Development and Land Use at Glasgow City Council, said:

This project will further transform a key site in Glasgow and bring back to life a part of the city's heritage. This project complements the significant amount of regeneration work taking place in this part of the East End, with a huge number of new homes being built and improvements to local streets and spaces. The Meat Market Sheds project is a great example of a project that will benefit local communities economically, environmentally and socially, in a part of Glasgow that is becoming increasingly attractive.