By Chris Irvine ONE OF Glasgow's most notorious high-rise flats is to be demolished in just three months, it emerged today.

By Chris Irvine

ONE OF Glasgow's most notorious high-rise flats is to be demolished in just three months, it emerged today.

The Stirlingfaulds flats in Laurieston took three years to build from 1970 to 1973.

Now it is expected the black "twin towers" of Glasgow will have been razed by June - although housing bosses have not set an exact date.

Preparation for the demolition work started on the site in September last year.

Of the 552 total properties in both flats, all now lie empty.

Despite taking close to three years to build, the demolition will only take about 15 seconds for both blocks.

A GHA spokeswoman said: "Work is progressing well and the buildings will be demolished by controlled explosion."

Glasgow MSP Frank McAveety said the news of the demolition was good news for the Gorbals community.

He said: "In recent years Stirlingfaulds has lost its way - it's been a problem for a while so people will be looking forward to getting them down.

"A lot of people have stayed in the Faulds' over the years and will have fond memories of it but it's a good signal that they are coming down.

"It's part of the massive plans for the regeneration of Laurieston and the Gorbals on the whole and people in the community can look forward to that."

The Glasgow Housing Association inherited 238 high-rise blocks, 22,467 flats, from Glasgow City Council in 2003.

After half a decade GHA has invested more than £560m across the city on modernising, improving and refurbishing tenants' homes to make them warmer, safer and drier.

Work began last month on some of GHA's new-build programme, with construction starting in the Balornock area on 239 homes.

As well as the controlled demolition of the two towers at Stirlingfaulds Place, the tower blocks at Norfolk Court are also due to come down.