Alex Glass wrote:Flyingscot
Did you see my posting on Pollok Househill & Hurlet topoic or have you seen the plans.
Work on the roundabout is to widen it for the expected traffic. I don't think they will have a problem marketing it. It already had Mark & Spencers and Debenhams. Together with the bigest TESCO Scotland. if not Britain.
When was the lat time you were in Pollok. It has changed a lot since the days of its bad reputation with lots of people moving back after a lot of the tenaments were cleared. ITS A GREAT PLACE TO "WORK, REST & STAY.
The plans you posted don't look like some of the CAD ones I've seen
. Seems to be a few discrepances but ho hum. I was aware the roundabout was to be widened, but just interested how they'd manage it, it's terrible as it is and widening would scare the crap out of some drivers!
You say they would have no problem marketing it but the name change (and how arsey they get if you use Pollok anywhere in it) indicates they obviously thought they would!
However the massive publicity about herion being sold to 12 year olds at the centre (however untrue) and the interviews with locals who talked about dodgy folk hanging around did nothing to help it. I know from someone who works with a shopping centre company that they are concerned about security and are very worried about it.
I travel through Pollok (depending on where I am going) sometimes every day and I know the immense work going into it. But then I also have good friends who live in the area who do nothing to help it's image with the comments they make about the people. Whilst I can see through it, trouble with people being in the 'wrong part' still exists. He likes the new houses they are building but does add "You can tart up the houses but the same folk are in them". Unfortunatly the phrase mud sticks is sad but true. Once an area has gained a reputation it can be hard to shift. Look at Ferguslie Park in Paisley. Nobody exists in that area that was there in the bad days of the 1990's but it still has the same reputation. Sad but true. Only time will tell whether people will be willing giving up the percieved safety of Braehead for what is seen as a Housing Scheme Shopping Centre.