| Comment | One possible explanation for this corner of Port Glasgow having such notorious deprivation and long-term low land value, something that doesn't get talked about much, is that the A8 dual carriageway was originally planned to be on top of where Glasgow Road is.
In the dual carriage expressway would've run directly *next* to this estate of tenements, not on the other side of the railway to the north as it eventually did. You can see the signs of this plan that wasn't completed, in the wide-flared roundabout at either end of this Glasgow Road section. Instead the expressway curves to the north east before woodhalk station, skirting the area altogether.
Boring point maybe, but it's very similar to what happened around Gallowgate and Tradeston from the 70s onward. Planned expressways and motorways that never materialised, but as the plans remained on the books for decades, it permanently drove down land value and killed interest in any redevelopment/neighbourhood maintainance, fuelling neglect of the buildings that remained. |
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