Calton Community Council objects to the plan to show Football at TRNSMT into the early hours of the morning.
On behalf of Calton Community Council, and particularly on behalf of local residents who live near Glasgow Green who will be adversely affected by this Temporary Public Entertainment Licence, we wish to object in the strongest terms to the granting of this Licence.
Why? For the following reasons:
- There was absolutely no discussion of this event with the Community Council or any residents before the event was announced in the Glasgow Times of 23 December 2025.
- There was a token online discussion, arranged at 1 week’s notice between Glasgow City Council’s NRS and 2 members of Calton Community Council on the evening of 10 February. At this meeting, one of these 2 Community Councillors, whose home overlooks the Green and who suffered 6 weeks of disruption from the “Winter Wonderland” very strongly explained his objection to the proposal for the licence proposal for Friday – Saturday 19-20 June. NRS should have the record of that meeting for your information and it should be considered.
- TRNSMT has, this year, been brought forward into the school summer term and no doubt the attraction of showing a Scotland World Cup formed part of this move. However this reduces the opportunity for local residents to move outwith the area for the duration of TRNSMT, as many currently do. It also means disruption into the early hours not only for school children but also for their parents, carers and any school staff living in the area.
- All residents within hearing range of TRNSMT will have their night disrupted on 19 June by the noise coming from the enclosed area, with the noise carrying a considerable distance both north and south of the river into the early hours of Saturday. After the end of the game residents will be disrupted by the noise of private cars and taxis arriving at the Green to collect ticket holders, many of whom will have been drinking alcohol for much of the day, leading to raised voices and, no doubt, the need to urinate, drop wrappings from the food they have bought, as we can observe after many a football game.
- Being out in the open for well over 12 hours with alcohol available for all that time does not indicate that all attendees will be able to safely make their way home at 1am, particularly since there will be no public transport at that time.
- Many public houses – and there are many near Glasgow Green, since Calton is an area of over supply of alcohol licences, will be applying for a late licence, no doubt, to show the football games. Being inside a public house is a far safer environment, particularly at the times these games in the USA will be played. The staff are trained to recognise over consumption and will be able relatively easily to arrange for taxis to call for customers to transport them home. It is unlikely that TRNSMT will be able to show the same consideration for the vast number of people who will be on the Green and leaving sometime after 1am.
- Not only will many pubs and clubs be applying for late licences for not just this one, but all the games. In addition, as reported in the press, 27 February, the OVO Hydro at the SEC will show all of Scotland’s games “in a plan endorsed by the Scottish Football Association (SFA)”. This covered, purpose-built event space is a far safer and a far more suitable environment for people who wish to watch football live in the early hours of the morning. The staff are accustomed to looking after large crowds dispersing and there is plenty of space outside for taxis etc to congregate while waiting to ferry people home. Following this example, there is no need to use a potentially muddy field close to people’s homes
To summarise, the noise and disruption that this late licence will cause is unacceptable to Calton Community Council and our residents who live near the Green. These people already unwillingly tolerate TRNSMT each year and they, and the Green itself, are still recovering from the damaging effects of the recent funfair, euphemistically termed the “Winter Wonderland” During these noisy commercial events residents lose the peaceful use of their home and we are opposed to this further commercially driven disruption of their lives that approval of this exceedingly late licence would mean.