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Glasgow Homes GHA News The Scotsman report that the board of Glasgow Housing Association is set to quit, after the Scottish Housing Regulator questioned the organisation's management and its strategic direction and purpose. The SHR is conducting an audit of GHA, due to be completed at the end of June. GHA is Scotland's largest housing association with 63,000 tenants and 26,000 factored homeowners. 13 Jun 2009 Glasgow housing : Houses in Multiple Occupancy Homes for the Future Tower Block Demolitions – News Update Dec 2008 Following demolitions in 2008 at Royston (1 block), Gorbals (2), Sighthill (2) Pollokshaws (2) & Millarston (3). Of the 223 blocks remaining, around three quarters are multi-storey towers - 12 storeys and over. The Red Road flats are the highest at 31 storeys. Glasgow Housing Association plans to demolish two more tower blocks - at Shawbridge Street and Sighthill - early next year with more to follow. When GHA took over the housing stock from Glasgow City Council in 2003 it inherited 238 high-rise blocks comprising 22,467 flats. Red Road Flats Demolition – News Update May 2008 Glasgow’s tallest tower blocks set for demolition in £60m rehousing initiative for tenants: Red Road flats owned by Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) since 2003. To be replaced by over 200 houses. Recent Glasgow Housing projects - Links Bell Street Clyde St Housing Cochrane Square Crown Street Custom House Quay Festival Park Glasgow Cross Homes for the Future 2 Lancefield Quay Macfarlane House Matrix Housing Monument Building Oswald street Paisley Housing Queen Elizabeth Square River Heights Lancefield Axiom Flats The Pinnacle Vantage Glasgow Waddell House Keep up with news re emerging projects on the Glasgow News page Glasgow Housing News 2007 Gorbals housing photo: Keith Hunter Page & Park Architects’ Glasgow housing project Glasgow Housing News 2006 Glasgow housing - photos © Adrian Welch Images from the large development at the east end of Ingram St, northeast Merchant City: 050506 Glasgow housing - photos © Adrian Welch G1, Ingram Street / High Street / College Street, Merchant City 2006 Halliday Fraser Munro housing + retail development: 62 units ; 2 retail spaces Feature Property: glasgow harbour + graham square housing images from architects Scottish Housing Projects Dumbarton housing Millbrae Feature Property: A chrannag image from architects Pollokshaws housing image © Adrian Welch Glasgow Housing - Tower Blocks Glasgow tower blocks - images © Adrian Welch 2005 The city is well known (in Scotland at least) for the Comprehensive Redevelopment Areas which decimated slums in the fifties and sixties, replacing them with brave new world tower blocks and slab blocks. Some examples above from just south of the Crown Street area (left) and from the Gorbals (right). Queen Elizabeth Square housing by Basil Spence was demolished and has now been replaced by a CZWG masterplan (led by Gordon Duffy now of Duffy & Batt). Glasgow tower block mural - scanned image © Adrian Welch 1988 Drumchapel Housing Clyde Salvage Site Housing, Waddell Street, Gorbals 2007- Page\Park Architects Adj. Buildings : Queen Elizabeth Square & Crown Street developments Glasgow Council Housing - History Current Glasgow Housing - Buildings, 2005-06: Queen Elizabeth, Glasgow - CZWG Architects Glasgow housing - image © Adrian Welch, Oct 2005 Queen Elizabeth, Glasgow - Elder & Cannon Glasgow housing - image © Adrian Welch, Oct 2005 Queen Elizabeth, Glasgow - Page/Park Architects to south: Glasgow housing - image © Adrian Welch, Oct 2005 Crown Street - CZWG Architects crown street: image from CZWG architects Crown Street, Glasgow - Hypostyle Architects new gorbals: images from Hypostyle architects Dumbarton Housing - Cooper Cromar Architects Housing image from Cooper Cromar Architects Jan 05 Bell St Housing - Gholami Baines Architects Glasgow Houusing image from Ali Nov 2005 Vantage apartments - Jewitt Arschavir & Wilkie Architects Clyde St Flats image from Jewitt Arschavir & Wilkie Architects Scottish Housing

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