Talk:Balornock

You are quite wrong when you say that the introduction of the concierge system had "minimal impact". I lived there for several years after it was introduced, and the level of crime was minimal. My neighbours told me various stories of the bad old days when crime and anti-social craziness was at its height, when anyone could get up the stairwells or into the lifts, and, even more importantly, out again carrying a stolen TV set or video or whatever, without being noticed. Your effort sounds like an advert for the Glasgow Housing Association's latest scheme, which is designed to yield millions of pounds in 'development' scams while tricking as many people as possible into debt, eventually forcing resisters into worse conditions if the GHA and its backers in business and the council get their way. Debt has always been a stick with which the rich have beaten the poor in Glasgow.

Red Road was a considerable improvement over the slums that people moved out of in the 1960s. It was a visible symbol of the working class victory in 1915 which forced the State to introduce council housing in the first place. This is why it is under attack.

Genuine criticisms of conditions in the flats would include, for example, the poor heating, for many years provided by the ridiculous devices called "storage heaters", which are rarely hot when you want them to be; and the related inadequacy of thermal insulation. These are of course aspects best known to people who have actually lived there.