While so many of Glasgow’s playparks tend to represent hubs for anti-social behaviour, you can rest assured Novar Park is one of the safest environments to play with your kids. Packed full of parents during the day, this resource offers the usual playpark facilities as well as benches for mums and dads to gab and a deceptively-vast grassy area in which slightly older kids can stretch their legs. Situated across the road from Novar nursery school, the park is well maintained, clean and without a hint of graffiti or neds. In fact, rumours have it anyone who has ever taking sip from a bottle of Buckfast, even as part of an ironic student jape, is barred.