Housing Plan to Erase High-Rise Gorbals Horrors

The ScotsmanJune 17, 2004

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DERIDED as Glasgow's version of the Bronx, with grim tower blocks and other architectural nightmares, Gorbals has become synonymous with social exclusion of the worst order.

Yesterday the Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) - the new landlord for 80,000 former council homes and their tenants - unveiled its plans to demolish two of the worst examples of post- war planning, with the pulling down of the high-rise flats at Stirlingfaulds.

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Housing Plan to Erase High-Rise Gorbals Horrors

Under the 15-year regeneration plan, high-rise living will be replaced with low-rise, low-density urban sprawl, replicating in social housing much of what has been achieved in pri...

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