Glasgow Council "has committed to refurbishing or rebuilding all of its primary and nursery schools" 

"Glasgow City Council said the revamp was necessary to help cope with an expected population growth among under-12s over the next 10 years"

Click on the above link to read this new story from the BBC today. 

East Dunbartonshire have already amended their projected school rolls for 2020 from an initial figure of 7,221 to a figure of 8,209.  Is it feasible that Glasgow City Council is expecting a rise in school rolls but that population rise will stop suddenly at Anniesland? We need to have confidence in the figures before any changes to our schools are planned. 

A small point, in St Joseph's Primary Milngavie the roll is predicted to remain static not fall. As many other schools have school rolls which are also predicted to stay the same, this make the accuracy of school capacity calculations even more important. I believe that any room that was previously used as a classroom is included in the capacity calculations. This does not take into account that schools have converted rooms for use as libraries, active learning spaces and as IT areas. All of these are considered important in a modern school and newly built schools will be constructed with additional spaces for these purposes. These same spaces which would be considered as contributing to a schools under-capacity in an older building.