A timetable for when work on Sauchiehall Street will be complete has been produced.

Much of the pedestrian precinct on the famous street has been fenced off while work on the Avenues programme takes place.

The work between Rose Street at the western end of the precinct to Hope Street is now expected to be finished by December this year.

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Between December 19 and January 7, 2025, it is envisioned that all fencing will be off-site and the precinct open to the public during this time. 

Similarly, the work at Cambridge Street is due to be complete at the same time.

There will be some tree planning taking place early next year.

(Image: Gordon Terris)

Work will then move down the street to the stretch between Hope Street and West Nile Street.

The whole project is due to be finished and open to the public by April 2025.

Residents and businesses in the area have been provided with the update, which will bring welcome news of the street being fully open again.

As well as improving the look of the street the work involved contractors preparing a new drainage system.

This involves planting trees that will ease pressure on the main sewer network and allow development to proceed in other streets.

(Image: Gordon Terris)

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This new system being installed now will ease capacity on the drainage network to allow developments in other parts of the city centre to go ahead.

The rainwater will go into the tree pit, not into the drainage network as it does just now.

The tree pit is a root management system that directs where the roots grow to create healthier trees.

Beneath the pits where trees will be planted is a line of plastic cages that will contain the roots and soak up the rainwater.

If anything is left it goes into the drains and into the River Clyde.