Posted by: jim, Glasgow on 11:11am Mon 14 Apr 08
Picture is awful cant see it.Saw plans before ,All very well But the Place is over run with junkies hanging around drinking etc.
Picture is awful cant see it.Saw plans before ,All very well But the Place is over run with junkies hanging around drinking etc.
Posted by: The Missing City, Glasgow on 11:24am Mon 14 Apr 08
[quote][bold]jim[/bold] wrote:
Picture is awful cant see it.Saw plans before ,All very well But the Place is over run with junkies hanging around drinking etc.[/quote] Yes Jim I agree that the thumnails are poor, hence the buigger images in print form when you buy the paper itself.
The original plan here (which was rejected) featured a muilti storey block as well as a copper faced building of around 10 storeys facing Speirs Wharf.
The reason why the place is full of drunks and alkies as you say is because it is North Glasgow, anything over that side of the motorway was socially excluded for many years with the Round Toll, Keppochhill, parts of Queens Cross and Possil lying redundant for as much as 40 years, so what did they expect in return?
Of course, this could be a catalyst for spreading the development which is taking place around the canal, you never know, after 10 years, First may even put on a City Centre bound bus service that uses Keppochhill Road, but I doubt it!
jim wrote:
Picture is awful cant see it.Saw plans before ,All very well But the Place is over run with junkies hanging around drinking etc.
Yes Jim I agree that the thumnails are poor, hence the buigger images in print form when you buy the paper itself.
The original plan here (which was rejected) featured a muilti storey block as well as a copper faced building of around 10 storeys facing Speirs Wharf.
The reason why the place is full of drunks and alkies as you say is because it is North Glasgow, anything over that side of the motorway was socially excluded for many years with the Round Toll, Keppochhill, parts of Queens Cross and Possil lying redundant for as much as 40 years, so what did they expect in return?
Of course, this could be a catalyst for spreading the development which is taking place around the canal, you never know, after 10 years, First may even put on a City Centre bound bus service that uses Keppochhill Road, but I doubt it!
Posted by: The Missing City, Glasgow on 11:27am Mon 14 Apr 08
[bold]Jim[/bold] wrote:
[quote]All very well But the Place is over run with junkies hanging around drinking etc.[/quote]
PS JIm, I've never known a Junkie to have a drink problem.
You may be entering new territory with your above quote!
Jim wrote:
All very well But the Place is over run with junkies hanging around drinking etc.
PS JIm, I've never known a Junkie to have a drink problem.
You may be entering new territory with your above quote!
Posted by: jim, Glasgow on 12:03pm Mon 14 Apr 08
My brothers family stopped walking along canal even at lunchtimes etc its too dodgy.Yes i hope it does turn the area around.Yes lots of Junkies has Drink probs Goes hand in hand.
My brothers family stopped walking along canal even at lunchtimes etc its too dodgy.Yes i hope it does turn the area around.Yes lots of Junkies has Drink probs Goes hand in hand.
Posted by: Big Al, Paisley on 1:07pm Mon 14 Apr 08
[quote][bold]jim[/bold] wrote:
My brothers family stopped walking along canal even at lunchtimes etc its too dodgy.Yes i hope it does turn the area around.Yes lots of Junkies has Drink probs Goes hand in hand.[/quote] I do believe this initiative is an attempt to convince the good citizens of North Glasgow that 'Heroin Chic' and 'Hash Brown' aren't just a pair of shady drug dealers fae the Milton...
jim wrote:
My brothers family stopped walking along canal even at lunchtimes etc its too dodgy.Yes i hope it does turn the area around.Yes lots of Junkies has Drink probs Goes hand in hand.
I do believe this initiative is an attempt to convince the good citizens of North Glasgow that 'Heroin Chic' and 'Hash Brown' aren't just a pair of shady drug dealers fae the Milton...
Posted by: angiebobs, possilpark on 9:53am Tue 15 Apr 08
I have walked regularly along the canal and have NEVER had any bother from anyone. Its a myth about alcoholics n drug users lining the canal!! Anytime I have seen anyone drinking - which does happen- I have had nothing but a cheery wave.
Some poeple just cant stand to even SEE poor people - we offend their sensibilities. Before you know it they will be 'regenerating' canl area and banning tracksuits and trainers!!
There is a wealth of widlfife - tufted duck, mallard,coot, greyheron,moorhen cormorant, mute swan and goosander along with deer and foxes to be seen along canal.This is why I walk there and I feel safer there than in city centre.
Having lived in Possil all my life I am all too familiar with the usual stereotyping of people - so lets hope 'regeneration' doesnt just mean'privatisation' to furtehr exclude us from enjoying our local wildlife.
(PS not too many puns in coming posts about wildlife and possil please, altho probably too much to ask)
I have walked regularly along the canal and have NEVER had any bother from anyone. Its a myth about alcoholics n drug users lining the canal!! Anytime I have seen anyone drinking - which does happen- I have had nothing but a cheery wave.
Some poeple just cant stand to even SEE poor people - we offend their sensibilities. Before you know it they will be 'regenerating' canl area and banning tracksuits and trainers!!
There is a wealth of widlfife - tufted duck, mallard,coot, greyheron,moorhen cormorant, mute swan and goosander along with deer and foxes to be seen along canal.This is why I walk there and I feel safer there than in city centre.
Having lived in Possil all my life I am all too familiar with the usual stereotyping of people - so lets hope 'regeneration' doesnt just mean'privatisation' to furtehr exclude us from enjoying our local wildlife.
(PS not too many puns in coming posts about wildlife and possil please, altho probably too much to ask)
Posted by: angiebobs, possilpark on 10:16am Tue 15 Apr 08
Have just looked at the plans and all three design options will exclude and remove any view of glasgow for wlakers. Why do they need to build so high in front of canal? Could it be that they are privatising our panoramic view from the canal side? Also if I lived in spiers wharf flast I would not be very happy at all- only the top floors any chance of retaining thier view.
Typical 'regeneration'!
Have just looked at the plans and all three design options will exclude and remove any view of glasgow for wlakers. Why do they need to build so high in front of canal? Could it be that they are privatising our panoramic view from the canal side? Also if I lived in spiers wharf flast I would not be very happy at all- only the top floors any chance of retaining thier view.
Typical 'regeneration'!
Posted by: theshawl, Glasgow on 2:45pm Tue 15 Apr 08
The plans don't look final. But anything that improves our city is surely for the greater good. In any development there are winners and loosers. I think in the whole this project will have many more winners. If there are junkies around this area then they will be polarised elsewhere. The users of the location will change. Their problem is a social one we need to sort not nessasarily geographical. Let Glasgow Flourish was a slogan we used to cherish. I hope we stand by this in the future.
The plans don't look final. But anything that improves our city is surely for the greater good. In any development there are winners and loosers. I think in the whole this project will have many more winners. If there are junkies around this area then they will be polarised elsewhere. The users of the location will change. Their problem is a social one we need to sort not nessasarily geographical. Let Glasgow Flourish was a slogan we used to cherish. I hope we stand by this in the future.
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