{"id":340115,"date":"2025-08-13T03:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T03:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340115\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T03:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T03:22:16","slug":"firework-control-zones-confirmed-for-parts-of-glasgow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340115\/","title":{"rendered":"Firework control zones confirmed for parts of Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A ban had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd6ydzyx38qo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intended to be introduced in Pollockshields last year<\/a>, due to the area being heavily affected by trouble around Bonfire Night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Glasgow City Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn5zl71v1ryo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">missed the deadline to issue a notification<\/a> and the ban could not go ahead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pollokshields councillor Jon Molyneux  welcomed the move going ahead in the autumn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Molyneux, who has been campaigning for a citywide ban, said: &#8220;After a deeply disappointing &#8216;false start&#8217; last year it is good that a fireworks control zone is going ahead in Pollokshields, as well as in Govanhill and Broomhouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is vital that these restrictions are well-communicated so people know the rules and the consequences of breaking them. It is also important that they are part of a wider package of measures to prevent people misusing fireworks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Southside Central councillor Soryia Siddique was also in favour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the local community council in Govanhill had raised concerns, along with local residents there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A ban had been intended to be introduced in Pollockshields last year, due to the area being heavily&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-340115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115019313696158366","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}