Slowly and steadily, green space in Glasgow is disappearing before our very eyes, largely to provide residential accommodation, although not necessarily the kind of accommodation that Pauline McNeill was talking about.Ground that is zoned for residential development can be worth many times the value of ground that is zoned for leisure or recreational use, and councils are told to maximise capital receipts by selling off surplus land. There is also an insidious process by which developers help to pay for community facilities on the understanding that they can build on the rest of the site.