Thenue Housing praises Glasgow City Council’s East End regeneration plans

The Association has called on its tenants to take part in the consultation exercise to air their views on how they would like the East End to look.

The council has released a new document – known as a Strategic Development Framework (SDF) - that sets out a ten-year plan to transform a large section of the city. It aims to make the east of Glasgow a more attractive place to live, tackle deprivation and health inequality.

Thenue – which was founded in 1979 and is named after St Thenue, the mother of Glasgow’s Patron saint St Mungo - has its main office in London Road, Calton.

It has homes across the city including Castlemilk and Cranhill but a large proportion are in Calton, Dalmarnock and Bridgeton – two areas which fall under the scope of the consultation which runs until September 3.

Charles Turner, Thenue’s chief executive, said: “We warmly welcome this proposal from Glasgow City Council and are encouraging our tenants to take part and air their views.

“The local authority deserves great credit for devising such an initiative which will turbo-charge the efforts of so many organisations committed to helping the East End.

“As a housing association we have grown deep roots in our communities since our creation in 1979 and we have been building homes consistently in the east end and in other communities we are proud to serve.”

He added: “Our multi-million-pound development of 77 new homes in Abercromby Street, Calton will be completed this year. It is being built with financial help from Glasgow City Council and the Scottish Government – demonstrating true partnership working which benefits local people.

“But we accept that it is not enough to just build homes – we need to build communities and this step forward by Glasgow City Council is just what’s needed for the east end.”

The consultation covers a large part of the east and includes: Barrowfield, Bridgeton, Calton/Barras, Carntyne, Cathedral Quadrant, Collegelands, Dalmarnock, Dennistoun, the Games Village, Haghill, Parkhead, Shettleston, The Forge and Tollcross.

The council document goes into detail about plans to help the area “become a series of interconnected walkable and liveable neighbourhoods, creating a vibrant, inclusive, liveable and well-connected people-friendly place”.

Mr Turner concluded: “It will be a city district that is climate-resilient; fosters creativity and opportunity; promotes social cohesion, as well as health and wellbeing and economic prosperity.”

Similar consultation exercises have already been carried out for Partick/Govan, the Clyde, and North Glasgow.