It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss The Red Road flats were back in the spotlight once more.
The top halves of the two remaining buildings were left at an angle, meaning up to 2,500 people were blocked from their homes for around an hour longer than was scheduled.Built in the mid-sixties, the Red Road complex towered above Glasgow at 292ft (89metres) – making them the tallest buildings in Europe at the time.Over the four decades that the buildings served the community, they became a polarising force, according to Professor Lynn Abrams, head of modern history at the University of Glasgow. There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts Danny Lawson/PA Wire Red Road’s last tenants have been scattered across the city, and the fate of the site is still up for grabs pending a public consultation. The Slatefield Street area in Gallowgate has been earmarked for redevelopment and the competition was a way of involving local people with the planners to come up with homes people wanted to live in. “The flats undoubtedly became the symbol to some of all that failed in the city's high rise experiment, associated with isolation, anti-social behaviour and crime,” she said.“To others, however, it was home. Added on 22/07/2020 by Moving Estate Agents, Glasgow . The development will include a restaurant, public hall and neighbourhood shops, new roads, relocation of allotment gardens, improvements to Richmond Park School and Richmond Park and a new ‘Oatlands Square’.Designs are for 221 homes – to be upgraded or rebuilt – in the Gallowgate, Glasgow.
they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. The most disliked section was the Charing Cross part of the inner ring road, linking the Kingston Bridge to the St George’s Cross interchange in 1972.The Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal (GEAR) project was set up to redevelop 3500 neglected acres in the east end; it was finished in 1987. Controversial plans to tear down the apartments in a televised broadcast for the Commonwealth Games were scrapped after critics said it would be insensitive to former residents and to asylum seekers who lived in the sixth block. The Red Road blocks were turned to rubble as researchers in the Housing, Everyday Life and Well Being team at the University of Glasgow carry out a study into the long term experiences of the flats’ tenants during the 1960s and '70s.Professor Abrams has asked for tenants of Glasgow’s high rise flats during this period to share their memories with her team.
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A Glasgow Housing Association spokesman said:"The original plan for today's demolition was that 10 floors of the blocks would remain for dismantling, post blowdown, by machine.
Please Email already exists. Late 1960s, a view of the recently constructed Red Road flats, the infamous modern high-rise housing development in Glasgow, Scotland. The buildings became a symbol of isolation, anti-social behaviour and crimeThe demolition of iconic blocks of flats in Glasgow did not go to plan after two of the six buildings remained partially upright, leaving residents of nearby properties unable to return home.The Red Road multi-storey blocks were brought down as part of a Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) plan to regenerate parts of the city and build thousands of new homes.