The contentious issue of secondary school zoning for pupils attending Carmunnock Primary is to be consulted on by the Council in the Autumn.
At present children are zoned for Castlemilk High School but not one child has gone to Castlemilk High in recent years. This is having an effect on the population of the village and parents would like this issue resolved once and for all.
The position of Carmunnock is anomalous, as a village within Glasgow, bordering both East Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire.
Local Liberal Democrat Councillor Margot Clark said: “The consultation is planned to assess the views of local parents. I would urge everyone to take part.
Hopefully a satisfactory solution can be found. It would, however, be quite wrong if too rigid a view of local Council boundaries was taken.”

Bailie Margot Clark has been heavily involved in a campaign to secure better facilities for disabled people at Castlemilk Swimming Pool.

Margot said: “Castlemilk Swimming Pool is a great local resource and it’s a shame that the pool isn’t accessible to the whole community. When the pool was refurbished a number of significant improvements were made, which do benefit a number of disabled people but we urgently need a changing plinth to allow disabled swimmers to get changed. The pool has a disabled changing room and changing bench but this is not adequate to allow some disabled people to get changed safely.”

“We need to raise around £12,000 for the alterations and I am positive that we can achieve this. The staff at Castlemilk Swimming Pool are very supportive of our aim as are Enable Scotland who identified the problem and are leading the campaign.”

Local residents have complained to local Linn Councillor Margot Clark about the condition of the bridge over the railway beside Bowling Green Road/Linwood Court. The bridge is the main access to Clarkston Road for people living in Merrylee.
Margot has taken up the dangerous condition of part of the steps with the owners, Network Rail. They assure Margot that this will be attended to over the next few weeks as a matter of urgency.

Local residents are up in arms about the ongoing saga of the proposed housing development between Manse Brae and Old Castle Road. The most recent planning application for 46 flats was rejected by the Council's Planning Committee following 133 objections (including all the local councillors). However the developer, Southside Housing Association, have appealed the refusal to Scottish Ministers.

Local Linn Councillor Margot Clark said: "Many local people have complained about the proposed development where traffic is already heavily congested. The development is not in character with the surrounding are and is substantial over-development."

Glasgow Liberal Democrat MSP Robert Brown was also one of the objectors.

Robert Brown MSP said: "This is a highly unsuitable development for the area. You just need to see the level of existing traffic congestion on Friday afternoons for example to see the problem if this number of extra flats were approved."

Local residents are up in arms over the loss of the highly-regarded Castlemilk Stress Centre, following on funding cuts from the Labour-led CHCP (a partnership between the Council and the Health Board). The Stress Centre has been in existence for over 16 years and helped hundreds of people a year suffering from depression or anxiety problems.