Councillor Flanagan added he would not like to see the mistakes of the 1970s repeated, when the then council decided Govan should have a new shopping centre and built a new road.

"Streets were demolished and the population collapsed," he said.

cringe-inducing tabloid rag, the mouthpiece of the red-rosette wearing mafia.

hugo wrote:
The Evening Times should be renamed the Evening Trash. It insults the intelligence of the average reader. Shopping and tourist mecca, to rival the merchant city, all for a cost which bears no relation to the scale of the problem, who are they trying to kid. A more interesting story for the Evening Times would why Govan has be neglected and failed by Labour Councillors over the last 20 years whilst similar areas of the City have had major investment of both public and private money. Or a comparison of what money has been spent in what communities, and how effect has that investemnt been in transforming communities. However, it is unlikely that such articles would go down well in the City Chambers, as a result, we are fed dross and make believe stories, which are viewed as nothing more than 'the latest spin' from the city fathers delivered by their mouth piece, sorry the Evening Times

mike wrote:
Murraymint and others - maybe it has something to do with Govan voting SNP on and off for the last 40 years.

Murraymint wrote:

hugo wrote: The Evening Times should be renamed the Evening Trash. It insults the intelligence of the average reader. Shopping and tourist mecca, to rival the merchant city, all for a cost which bears no relation to the scale of the problem, who are they trying to kid. A more interesting story for the Evening Times would why Govan has be neglected and failed by Labour Councillors over the last 20 years whilst similar areas of the City have had major investment of both public and private money. Or a comparison of what money has been spent in what communities, and how effect has that investemnt been in transforming communities. However, it is unlikely that such articles would go down well in the City Chambers, as a result, we are fed dross and make believe stories, which are viewed as nothing more than 'the latest spin' from the city fathers delivered by their mouth piece, sorry the Evening Times

I have also often wondered why Govan has always been treated as the poor relation, with countless millions being spent in other areas of the city, notably the East End. As someone born and bred in the Elder Park area, it makes my blood boil every time I return to see what has been done to a once proud and thriving community. When I was a boy you were proud to say you came from Govan, and most of the area was nothing like Wine Alley, being populated by decent people who worked in the shipyards, Shieldhall and Hillington. Govan was once at least on a par with Partick in it's range of facilities, but has now been reduced to a poverty-stricken shadow of it's former self. The downturn occured after the implementation of the disastrous overspill plan, which removed large numbers of the skilled working class, together with demolition of perfectly good tenements with shops to be replaced by a new road and an atrocious new shoppping centre. If GCC think that tinkering round the edges with a pathetically small level of investment is going to make much difference, they are very much mistaken. It will take at least as much as is currently being spent on the East End to make any noticeable difference.

Murraymint wrote:

hugo wrote: The Evening Times should be renamed the Evening Trash. It insults the intelligence of the average reader. Shopping and tourist mecca, to rival the merchant city, all for a cost which bears no relation to the scale of the problem, who are they trying to kid. A more interesting story for the Evening Times would why Govan has be neglected and failed by Labour Councillors over the last 20 years whilst similar areas of the City have had major investment of both public and private money. Or a comparison of what money has been spent in what communities, and how effect has that investemnt been in transforming communities. However, it is unlikely that such articles would go down well in the City Chambers, as a result, we are fed dross and make believe stories, which are viewed as nothing more than 'the latest spin' from the city fathers delivered by their mouth piece, sorry the Evening Times

I have also often wondered why Govan has always been treated as the poor relation, with countless millions being spent in other areas of the city, notably the East End. As someone born and bred in the Elder Park area, it makes my blood boil every time I return to see what has been done to a once proud and thriving community. When I was a boy you were proud to say you came from Govan, and most of the area was nothing like Wine Alley, being populated by decent people who worked in the shipyards, Shieldhall and Hillington. Govan was once at least on a par with Partick in it's range of facilities, but has now been reduced to a poverty-stricken shadow of it's former self. The downturn occured after the implementation of the disastrous overspill plan, which removed large numbers of the skilled working class, together with demolition of perfectly good tenements with shops to be replaced by a new road and an atrocious new shoppping centre. If GCC think that tinkering round the edges with a pathetically small level of investment is going to make much difference, they are very much mistaken. It will take at least as much as is currently being spent on the East End to make any noticeable difference.

Big Al wrote:
I like Govan, I'd happily live there if they did it up a bit. Even though last time I cycled through, some worthie threw a fresh trout out a tenement windae at me !!! Naw ye cannae huv yer fish back Mrs !!!