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Item 21

The future of this area

Disposal and Development Agreement - Barras Centre
Calton Entry/Stevenson Street/Bain Street/Moncur Street

Purpose of Report:

The purpose of this report is to seek Committee authority to dispose of the ground lease interest
of the Barras Centre at 54 Calton Entry, Glasgow, and enter into a development agreement with
Rock DCM to secure a comprehensive development proposals for the sites bounded by Calton
Entry/Stevenson Street/Bain Street/Moncur Street Glasgow, as shown hatched on the attached

Recommendations:

Is it recommended that Committee approves the proposed disposal of the ground lease interest
at 54 Calton Entry for £85,000 and authorises the Executive Director of DRS to conclude the
development agreement for the adjacent sites bounded by Calton Entry/Stevenson Street/Bain
Street/Moncur Street to secure an integrated development to support the regeneration of this
area, under the terms and conditions set out in this report.
plan.

can anyone smell burning?

That'll be the doughnut stand.

I made a posting on the Barras's thread yesterday and it has disappeared. My post was with regard to something Dexter had written (it has disappeared too!). Could someone please tell me what happened to my post?

I deleted it, and Dexters and Josefs and will be deleting this and yours once you've had time to see this.

Dexter, grow up.

Dugald, stop biting at his bait.

Josef, love ya!

Crusty_bint, someone else took the time to explain what happened to my post. I can't recall any reason why Dexter should have felt the need to reply sarcastically: there wasn't anything, as far as I recall, that was particularly objectionable. I simply questioned his early use of "netiquette", and his later correction of a miss-use of the possessive... I even mentioned that "netiquette" was both a useful word and idea, and that I too, would have incorrectly used "Barras". Don't have any idea about this fellow Stewart.

I'm not at all aware of having bitten any of Dexter's bait... wasn't even aware that he had offered any. So be it, I'll refrain from further comment. Thanks for taking the time to answer my inquiry. Cheers, Dugald.

PS I tried, in vain, to post this as a PM, but for some reason it was not accepted, so here I am!

Dugald wrote:I can't recall any reason why Dexter should have felt the need to reply sarcastically

It's his raison d'être Dugald my friend

and his later correction of a miss-use of the possessive... I even mentioned that "netiquette" was both a useful word and idea, and that I too, would have incorrectly used "Barras".

Misunderstanding of how to express a plural more likely. One Barra several Barras.

One could argue that Barra's is a contraction of Barrowlands and the apostrophe is used to indicate omission. I wouldn't suggest this myself however as it's obviously shite, but it would at least be an inventive excuse for illiteracy and probably merit half marks or better in the current Higher Still.

I was more concerned with the use of the apostrophe in the possessive 'its' which, in a sickening misuse of duty, was only corrected about an hour ago...

red_kola wrote:One could argue that Barra's is a contraction of Barrowlands and the apostrophe is used to indicate omission. I wouldn't suggest this myself however as it's obviously shite, but it would at least be an inventive excuse for illiteracy and probably merit half marks or better in the current Higher Still.

And it would, in any case, be Barr'a's

Josef wrote:And it would, in any case, be Barr'a's

Nope -'barra' being a Glaswegian form of 'barrow', 'Barrowlands' would contract to "Barra's"

- the Punctuation Police.

Apples and oranges. It's either Barrowlands or The Barras. Which is where Red_Kola came in, I suppose.

Please don't dis the Galloping Major

HollowHorn wrote:Please don't dis the Galloping Major

He's only a Major in the sense Special Constables are 'special'