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Author	Torran_Toi
Comment	I blame the council. Areas seem to go up and down in Glasgow and I bet if we looked deeper at the reasons why, the common denominator would end up being council investment in an area. It seems the council mostly ignore and neglect some areas to focus on others until a certain breaking point, which when reached forces the council to regenerate and invest in the area. The area improves and is labelled up and coming. At this point the council thinks 'job done' and goes back to ignoring and neglecting that area in favour for the next regen project. By the time the cycle completes the first areas are back at square one. It might be because of the seriously overinflated costs of local government work. Every project they do seems to cost significantly more than comparable works on a private scale. Plus the level of neglect is so gross that when it gets to the point of forcing action it takes real drastic and costly action, such as having to raze entire areas and built from scratch (like Red Road or Sighthill). So, just now, all the focus is being placed on particular areas that stretch the budget too thin for them to give a fuck about other areas. Those other areas will go downwards till it's time for the same treatment. Once the council get round to dealing with Cardonald and Hillington, then go do Springburn, bits of the east end, drumchapel and wherever else... 30 years pass and Sighthill will falling to bits again. Rinse and repeat.
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Created	Sun 30th Aug 2020 4:15am
Status	normal ()

I blame the council.

Areas seem to go up and down in Glasgow and I bet if we looked deeper at the reasons why, the common denominator would end up being council investment in an area.

It seems the council mostly ignore and neglect some areas to focus on others until a certain breaking point, which when reached forces the council to regenerate and invest in the area. The area improves and is labelled up and coming. At this point the council thinks 'job done' and goes back to ignoring and neglecting that area in favour for the next regen project. By the time the cycle completes the first areas are back at square one.

It might be because of the seriously overinflated costs of local government work. Every project they do seems to cost significantly more than comparable works on a private scale. Plus the level of neglect is so gross that when it gets to the point of forcing action it takes real drastic and costly action, such as having to raze entire areas and built from scratch (like Red Road or Sighthill).

So, just now, all the focus is being placed on particular areas that stretch the budget too thin for them to give a fuck about other areas. Those other areas will go downwards till it's time for the same treatment. Once the council get round to dealing with Cardonald and Hillington, then go do Springburn, bits of the east end, drumchapel and wherever else... 30 years pass and Sighthill will falling to bits again. Rinse and repeat.