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Fair points all round. Genuinely appreciate this type of back and forth, as you've said some stuff there I hadn't considered.

Especially on the fact the motorway itself, which I maintain is the structural issue behind Springburn's state today, was itself billed as *regenerative*. Need to keep that in mind. As I think you're saying, a development being billed as "regenerative" shouldn't be good enough by itself.

I guess to put it simply, my basic view is that this is essentially an area that should always have been "built up". That is wasn't, and that it had massive underuse for over half a century, is a bit of a historic oddity. This is a small part of correcting that.

My default position is any construction / redevelopment / regeneration, call it what you will in Tradeston specifically, should be expected, even encouraged, as a return to normal for a city centre adjacent area. In fact, being honest, I personally would view Tradeston as being part of the city centre core itself. It puzzles me a little that it's not talked about in that way (I think as a result of it being a blighted underused area more than anything else).

That's my basic, default view. Beyond that, on the issues around housing cost, publicly provided homeless housing, etc. There's no reason it has to be one or the other. We realistically need a suite of measures to fix the housing crisis. Including legislation on things like short term lets, rent caps, mandatory social housing in any new build apartment complexes, etc.