City Strolls - events - meetings
Monday, June 13, 2005
Save our homes- Save our concierge -Save our community
* TENANTS QUESTION TIME: THURSDAY 16th JUNE 2OO5 T.3Opm
SIGHTHILL PRIMARY SCHOOL; FOUNTAINWELL TERRACE, G21
* GLASGOW HOUSING ASSOCIATION'S PROPOSED CHANGES TO YOUR 24-HOUR CONCIERGE SERVICE!
* RED ROAD - SAVE OUR HOMES - CAMPAIGN
CONFIRMED PANELLISTS:
Colin Fox MSP (SSP Convenor) Sandra White MSP (SNP) Sean Clerkin (Campaign Vs Housing Stock Transfer)
Elaine Ellis (Sighthill resident);
Also Invited are Paul Martin MSP (Labour) and
a GHA Ltd. Speaker
ALL WELCOME
Save our homes
c/o Flat 15/1, 32 Pinkston Drive, G21 1NG Email: sighthillsoh@hotmail.com
Mobile: 07940 937 241
GLASGOW 7 BRANCH G.M.B. TRADE UNION (CONCIERGE )
GLASGOW HOUSING ASSOCIATION'S PROPOSED CHANGES TO YOUR 24-HOUR CONCIERGE SERVICE!
1. Do you want your buildings patrolled on a regular basis?
2. Do you wish your elderly tenants to continue to enjoy the regular checks they are entitled to at present?
3. Do you wish your blocks to continue to be clean and vandal free?
4. Do you want a familiar face to continue to attend to your responses throughout the night particularly in an emergency?
OR
*DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT THE BUILDINGS WERE LIKE BEFORE YOUR SUCCESSFUL 24-HOUR CONCIERGE SERVICE WAS INTRODUCED?
*HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR?
*HAVE YOU EVER CAME ACROSS UNDESIRABLES ON THE BACKSTAIRS?
*HAS YOUR HOUSE BEEN BROKEN IN TO?
*HAVE YOU COME ACROSS URINE, VOMIT AND FAECES ON YOUR LANDINGS, BACK-STAIRS AND LIFTS?
*HAVE YOU CAME ACROSS BLOOD, DISCARDED NEEDLES etc, ON YOUR LANDINGS BACKSTAIRS etc?
GLASGOW HOUSING ASSOCIATION IS A TENANT LED ORGANISATION, YOU THE TENANT IS THEIR MOST VALUABLE ASSET PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR SAY!!!!!
TO HAVE YOUR SAY PLEASE CONTACT 0141-274-6200 TO OUTLINE YOUR CONCERNS, ALTERNATIVELY CONTACT YOUR LOCAL COUNCILLOR / M.P./ M.S.P.!!
>>>>>>>>> RED ROAD - SAVE OUR HOMES - CAMPAIGN <<<<<<<<<
No Information, No Consultation, No Tenant Participation, No Negotiation, Authoritarian, Aloof, Arbitrary, Arrogant, Contemptuous of its Tenants and above all Secretive and Unaccountable ......
GHA Ltd. Plans to Demolish Your Home
On the 9th of March 2005 your landlord, Glasgow Housing Association Ltd. announced its plan to demolish "one of the largest of the eight Red Road tower blocks". It is part of their, crazed Masterplan to flatten all the Red Road high flats? There have been rumours about a Secret Masterplan for years, now it's official so -We need to see it. We have a right to know!
Have the Glasgow Housing Association Ltd., got the approval of the Scottish Executive to demolish your home? Do they have your approval?
The first that many tenants knew of this was when it was on TV and in the Evening Times.
And, it was recently announced "Planners want to erect the 39-storey building on the site of the old Strathclyde Regional Council headquarters at the junction of India Street and St Vincent Street. If approved, the skyscraper would top the height of the city's Red Road flats - Europe's tallest homes at just over 328ft." The new city centre building would include luxury flats, offices, shops and a swimming pool. But would it include you?
In Edinburgh, the convener of the Edinburgh Council's planning committee, Trevor Davies, recently said the time had come to look at where it might be possible to site new tall buildings.
Tenants of Red Road Were not consulted !
• Well some of the Red Road tenants did not take kindly to being treated in such a disrespectful way. On April 5th a well attended Tenants' Meeting was held by the Red Road Save Our Homes Campaign.
• It was agreed to carry out a survey which would be independent of the biased manipulation of GHA Ltd. and the Local Hypocrisy We were not consulted by GHA Ltd so we are going consulting each other.
"We have been lied to and ignored; we have to do something about it."
Would it be better to break up the GHA by moving to Second Stage transfer with private sector finance? Well, David Orr as head of the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations thinks GHA has been a disaster but wants to do away with rent guarantees for tenants and move to higher rents as more housing associations come into existence. That's fine for him on £65,000 per year to advocate lofty rents.
"I want to move but will it be to something decent?" "I've lived here too long to move now." "These are sound buildings, it doesn't make sense."
Support our campaign for freedom of information for tenants in the Red Road.
Bob, 09:04
2 Comments:
The red road flats are the product of bad building planning, and very few people would desire to live there - bring them down - but as to the tenants not being consulted well, thats totally typical of the GHA who are in effect still suffering from the institutionalisation effects from when they where Glasgow City Housing (i hope your campain hits them hard - good luck)
John
John
Why were they badly designed, what made them that way, they seem to be ordinary flats to me (but with thin windows). The height seems to be what intimidates people most, but as the above says, the new 39 storey building in Glasgow is also 'tall'. Glasgow has seen too much demolition and replacement in the last 50 years, all without the consent of tenants.
