Parksquare/ Parliement Place

[SmithD]

If they aren't getting the help they are looking for they would go to the local housing office. If not their local councillor. Thats what they are there for! Or even their local CAB office.

I know this sounds harsh, but maybe some people just can't be a*sed! Some people chose to live like this, and some have no option. This kind of thing is everywhere. And Campbeltown isn't the worst. The people who lived in these house have been re-housed, and if I'm not mistaken are they not getting first choice on the new houses that are getting built? Maybe someone can clarify this?

[The Hitman]

I have heard a rumour that the only people getting first choice in the new houses are those who didn't take the £2000.00 to move house in order to allow the demolition to progress. Those who refused the incentive are allowed to move back into the area once the new houses are up. Not too many of them though, less than 5 I think!!

[petewick]

It's up to the housing provider to ensure that the premises are kept clean if the inhabitants cannot or will not do so, this has obviously not been the case in the picture we have seen, as someone has already stated this is'nt the 50's/60's when your neighbour was your friend, in the 70's when the districts were regionalised all the power and responsibility was moved out of the town, so you have all these faceless officials who make all the decisions living out of town and not iving a flying fart about the conditions of housing or the circumstances of those living there.

petewick

[The Hitman]

Ye canna blame officials for peoples general lack of hygiene!!!

If you don't brush your teeth and need to go to the dentist and get charged £300.00, can you blame the council for not having an official to tell ye what to do or even do it for ye?

[general jack o'niell]

how about an incentive to keep the bloody houses they had clean, a£99 tent oota halfords and a couple oh year pitched on kinloch green might get them to keep they're hoose in order, tho seeing as a good selection never had the energy to get their weans to school regularly i wouldn't expect them to be familiar with basic hygeine.

i thought thats wot the pill was invented for, maybe if a couple of generations back they'd pit it in the water there widnae be a problem


crisis loan for a new pram!!!!!!!!!

[petewick]

Ye canna blame officials for peoples general lack of hygiene!!!

If you don't brush your teeth and need to go to the dentist and get charged £300.00, can you blame the council for not having an official to tell ye what to do or even do it for ye?

Personal hygiene and keeping your house/close clean are completely different issues and cannot be realistically compared.
It's in the tennancy agreement to keep the home in a tidy state, it's up to the housing provider to ensure that this is the case.


petewick

[The Hitman]

Don't agree at all there Pete, Hygiene is all the same whether it is washin yersel or washin the dishes. If folk are unable to look after themselves they should be put into a hostel and their homes made available for young families who are trying to get on the property ladder!

[general jack o'niell]

hear hear!!!!!!

[gizmo]

If folk are unable to look after themselves they should be put into a hostel and their homes made available for young families who are trying to get on the property ladder!

Finally someone who speaks sense.... A good first step. Then we can get rid of the Poles, then the disabled and dont get me started on the Jews...

[general jack o'niell]

that would have been funny if you hadn't completely missed the point!!!

i think the general consensus in hitmans favour is the type, who if the pay rent at all, its only a fraction of the rent an upstanding tenent pays. who if a window sticks is on the phone complaining instead of freeing it themselves, same if a tap drips, or any other minor thing that goes wrong in any house, which you or i would attend to ourself, or if it was too big a job, get a man in to do it.

fair enough there are or were houses with damp etc and we all saw photos of rooms that nobody should have to put up with, but, if i had the first signs of damp i'd attend to it, not wait till it was growing doon the wall then contact the courier first.

its like an incident that i heard of the other day, which was a simple accident among playfull kids, everything was sorted out the way normal people would do, but no, one side of it has started spouting "quality of life" parasites the lot of them, if the former residents of parlly and thesquare want to get their good name back, the cooncil should get shot of the influx of parasites with their unproportionate broods of "disturbed" children, milking Argyll and Clyde health board and the system. and for the record, they are not poles. or ukrainians or jews or any other ethnic minority, they are weegies!!!!

[The Hitman]

I just hope that when the new houses go up, there is some sort of vetting system in place to stop this ever happening again!

When the former residents of Parliament Place, Broad Street and Park Square held their party to say farewell to the old buildings, I wa quite surprised the rest of the town never threw a party to wish them good riddance and I just hope the new properties get the tenants they deserve and make the three sites area to be proud to stay in again!

[general jack o'niell]

hear hear again, this is getting to be a habit, i used to be the milkboy for parly and broad st in the seventies and bar one or two the residents were all decent.

thats when you could say that about everywhere and there were only about a dozen what you would call problem families in the whole town

[The Hitman]

The old adage a few bad apples rot the whole barrel spring to mind!

[The Hitman]

See the buildings in Parliament are fairly coming doewn now, what a difference it will make having a clear site there for a few months before the new houses start going up!

[Rabmacd]

Parliament Place--that's with an "A" and not an "E".

I was brought up in No. 3.

Gen Jack, the only thing I remember about milk runs, is when my mum thought that one of the the MacKay brothers, can't remember which one, (reasonably sure it was Bobby) was delivering milk to the back door, and she found one of her Yorkie dogs, lying deid on the tarmac, under the milk van.

Oh how I laughed, until it regained consciousness.

Parliament Place was a great play area, when I was there. The odd clip roon the ear, when deserved, no harm done--juist get on wae it. Playing football oot the dryin' green. I fondly remember when Lorimer scored the volley against Zaire in 1974, me an' Lawrence Robertson went oot tae try and replicate the classic kick. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the auld wumin, whose sheets we used as nets.

Sadly, I think those times are long gone