[5] In 1966 Mrs Anne Maxwell Macdonald gifted the estate, including Pollok House, to Glasgow Corporation with the condition that it remained a public park.

It is located near to Pollokshaws West railway station on the Glasgow South Western Line which is the nearest to the centre of the park and near-adjacent to its main entrance;[18] Shawlands railway station on a different route (the Cathcart Circle) is approximately a 0.5 km walk from the main entrance.

Protesters, including local schoolchildren, attempted to prevent this using tactics such as building and occupying treehouses and tunnels.

[19] As campaigners feared, the motorway has disconnected the park from communities to its north and west (Pollok, Corkerhill and Mosspark) with almost no direct access - there is one walkway on the north bank of the White Cart from near Corkerhill); by contrast, the eastern side of the park has three vehicular routes and two more access points for pedestrians and cyclists.

Over five thousand residents objected to the proposals to site a high wire forest adventure in the ancient North Wood.