High Street's Hidden Problems | Full Documentary

[@BellamyBlue]

Well done for raising awareness on this issue. I will be writing a letter to the council... Saw this video name in one of High Street's shops.

[@samanthacooper3988]

BellamyBlue Thanks for your support. Did you receive a reply from Glasgow City Council?

[@LoCals2024]

Amazing, I will be visiting the shops to support.

[@battlestarone]

shame on GCC for leaving an old part of Glasgow to go this way,,its one of the few places in Glasgow that still has the old Glasgow street charm.

[@Revolver1981]

battlestarone It doesn't have any street charm anymore you fool. All its medeival buildings are gone. The red sandstone tenements were built about 1900. The only medieval building left is the Old College Bar building.

[@Revolver1981]

@Frank Filthyfinger Hahaha why coz I'm telling the truth? The city council will never be forgiven for destroying that ancient medieval area.🤬

[@smartieplum]

Glasgow city council, GHA and other interested parties want the area flattened to build student accommodation for Starthclyde Uni (ask Gordon Matheson, former big knob at the Council, now with the Uni). They want rid of the tenements as they are seen as "run down". Why are they run down? Because the council and the factor have let them get like that!

[@Revolver1981]

@@samanthacooper3988 Preserve what? It's far too late to preserve anything on High Street. All the original medieval buildings are gone.

[@59jalex]

Sad to see the state of disrepair on High Street. From the mid 1850's to the 1890's, my family lived at 250 and 251 High Street and the New Vennel.

[@davidhamilton8108]

Just passed by the shop yesterday and was really sad to find you'd lost your fight for Ladywell. It's almost as if the council want High Street to fail. Just can't imagine why. It would be an ideal conduit for tourists from the cathedral to the city centre.

[@samanthacooper3988]

David Hamilton Thanks David. Ladywell's rotting alongside the other vacant shops here and our shop 23 Enigma of 22years is threatened due to the same damp and rot. Everyone agrees with you, Labour ran Glasgow for 64 years and ran down this vital tourist area, the birthplace and #HeartofGlasgow. Our new City-government pledged to save Glasgow's oldest street which gives hope but we need help asap. The ALEO landlord, City Property LLP set up by Labour have declined to comment on our film after blocking us on social media.

[@stevenwood1320]

I stay in Townhead,everything is being turned into student accomodation. Money,not cultural heritage is what these scumbags are all about.Protest at the offices of ALL those responsible & make the public aware of this travesty. It's up to the citizens of Glasgow,not the takers in the City Chambers,take the power back. Heartbreaking.

[@rabthecab]

Well done. Really interesting to watch this & find out why the High St is as it is. The last couple of times I've visited Glasgow (I'm a Weegie but live in London) I've walked up the street & it breaks my heart that GCC won't do a thing, either for the current tenants or to attract new tenants. It's shameful. Best of luck to all of the businesses struggling on, hope it all works out for you.

[@smartieplum]

GCC is swimming in money.

[@crisiscult9646]

Local elections are coming: finally a realistic chance to oust the Labour mafia in Glasgow before they destroy every last bit of cultural heritage.

[@samanthacooper3988]

RabMacPhoto Thanks Rab but after our 6 year battle, Glasgow City Council landlord, City Property LLP, evicted us from our rotting shop in March. We hope for better from our new City government.

[@robertwillis4061]

Once the places have been empty for 4 - 7 years there will be a mysterious fire in the building. The building will need to pulled down. So who is going to profit?!?! Happens too often in Glasgow. Should take City Properties to court, as landlords they are failing in their duties.

[@knicholson6003]

There should be laws to prevent people sitting on property just to let it rot, especially in such an historical and central location. So many areas of the city centre are an embarrassment.

[@mmg4216]

well done all involved in maing this video from InnerSpace Meditation Centre 277 High Street

[@brahmakumarisglasgow6991]

very clear presentation all good wishes to The High Street Positive Powerful Thoughts InnerSpace Meditation Centre 277 High Street

[@angelsoulart]

well done ! from InnerSpace Meditation Centre 277 High Street

[@benbhoy9]

Honestly....the Scottish Government,And Glasgow City Council ....should be Ashamed of themselves...... This is Glasgow’s oldest Street by far ....and they do NOTHING .... Can you imagine this Happening in Edinburgh ....Don’t think so ...... Shocking way to treat our Glasgow Heritage ......

[@Revolver1981]

Are you stupid? Edinburgh is lucky they haven't had their world heritage taken off them.

[@wildscotsman1]

I was born there in Rottenrow, it's a shame to see it being allowed to decay like this. It could and should be a thriving part of the true old centre of Glasgow.

[@ArcAudios77]

Was born in Rottenrow Maternity Unit as well. Big for our City. Regards

[@ferrit22]

Very few businesses survive at the top end of high street.They never last very long

[@samanthacooper3988]

Paul Far Correct Paul & our film proves why: Decades of neglect have caused the rot which has spread through the High Street tenements and destroyed our businesses and livelihoods. There should've been an enquiry into the previous Labour council responsible for this civic-vandalism and waste of council tax payers money long before now. Our new councillors for the city unanimously agreed to investigate the High St crisis so we await action on this.

[@petraresilio]

Its a shame the state of Glasgow these days.

[@Mintzik]

I'd be devastated if Ladywell closed. If it does there is Opal Moon in Glasgow's West End but people should have a variety of options, not one single shop that may be ages from their home, and I don't think they do workshops like Ladywell does.

[@ronmac9522]

Its now just over a year since this was published. Has city property change anything?

[@samanthacooper3988]

Ron Mac95 Yes, City Property LLP evicted us from Ladywell in March despite a 4 year media campaign and 5000 signature petition. We spoke out for the HighSt as no one else did and we lost our business. Shame on Labour Glasgow City Council and their landlord, City Property LLP. High Street is still rotting!

[@drunkensid2429]

Good luck to everyone involved in this video! I shared this with people I am friends with - hopefully generate a little more of awareness of this dreadful situation. No offence to students and the revenue that they bring into the city / educational establishments. it now looks like due to the wide spread planning permission given for student residencies that someone in GCC chain of command is getting a back hander - SHOCKING.

[@williamking9510]

Building Student Accommodation is in a bubble due to investment funds predicting yields of "9.2%". When it pops, it will be spectacular. I'll give it a couple of years.

[@samanthacooper3988]

drunken sid Thanks for your support but it seems a 12 storey student block with shops is going ahead at High St on an archaeologically sensitive site while our High Street shops rot!

[@alicewatt4154]

I am so sorry that you didn't win, it all comes down to greed! With the amazing success of the Outlander series worldwide people want to come to Scotland to experience its history not posh apartments. As a Scott who lives overseas I know this because people ask me about Glasgow all the time. It really annoys me that land that is so precious to who we are as a fine race of people will become sterile and modern. I hope that you all found great new places to lease

[@samanthacooper3988]

Thank you for your thoughtful reply, echoing what many feel: that Glasgow is disappearing under corporatism. The Labour council who neglected Glasgow for so many decades, evicted me from my business in 2017 for exposing the truth of their landlord, City Property LLP, rotting out the heritage and our shops. Despite agreeing to investigate CityPropertyLLP if elected to run Glasgow in 2017, the SNP-led council failed us: the shop Ladywell I was evicted from, was extensively refurbished under new SNP council who've tured it into an artist space! Rather than acknowledge our 5000 signature petition to save Ladywell and reinstate our much-loved 7 year shop, named after the medieval well here, a shop which helped regenerate HS, the SNP council let it for £1 per year for artists to use as part of their Meanwhile Space strategy. This is puzzling as this strategy is only meant to apply to units the council cannot let, and which lay vacant. If council had offered to reinstate Ladywell, we'd be there now, paying rent, open daily to increase footfall and help the other businesses here, and making our community safer; many elders pleaded for us to stay open as we know them and we're a welcoming face here. This decision to again rob communities here of the resources our shop Ladywell provided, will never be investigated and we will never receive justice, despite our 'unashamedly feminist' council 's pledge to 'throw open the doors and let light in' to the corruption of the previous Labour administration. We have support and will fight on Alice! Our thanks to those of you who fight with us to make the world a better place!

[@MegaLochgelly]

Why can't Glasgow look after its assets?

[@samanthacooper3988]

MegaLochgelly We'd like to ask the previous Labour administration who ran Glasgow for 64 years that question too which is why we ask for an investigation or public enquiry: Heritage buildings and our small businesses have been destroyed.

[@MegaLochgelly]

Samantha Cooper They could learn a lot from cities like Prague. Unfortunately I believe Glasgow is doomed to look like the new riverside buildings. High Street won't be saved, I'm sure of that. It's the Glasgow way, down with old up with the boxes.

[@samanthacooper3988]

MegaLochgelly The public want HighSt saved & so do visitors to an ever corporatised Glasgow so you're right, like the great European cities, every effort must be made. It's pathetic that High Streets City Improvement Trust's tenements are only just over 100yrs old and rotting in plain sight destroying our businesses too.

[@MegaLochgelly]

Samantha Cooper I hope they do, but everytime I visit Glasgow more is lost. Jamaica Street for example is recognisable and all the beautiful walls surrounding the hospital's are gone. So I don't see any evidence of things improving. It will turn into Coatbridge or the Gorbals with more ring roads.

[@TheGrowler55]

GCC should be ashamed of themselves, a disgrace.

[@spacer567]

same problem with factors hacking and paterson absolutley dont give a damn and about tennants only intrested in money

[@mozzy3663]

! What would Edinburgh think?

[@markwrethman4909]

Shocking!! when will the city fathers ever learn! Glasgows tenements are some of her biggest assets and time and time again they are left to fall into disrepair until demolition is the only option.

[@samanthacooper3988]

Mark Wrethman The only reason to dilapidate Glasgow's oldest street is to run it down and re-develop, making huge profits for developers and destroying unique Glasgow-born businesses. After 64 years of Labour governing Glasgow, why else would a council consistently ignore it's birthplace and oldest street? Thanks for your support.

[@malcolmcowan9554]

Glasgow following apart around seams. The roads are full pot holes at the high Street. glasgow city council should be ashamed of them Self's. It's not good for visitors or holiday makers those old buildings are part of our history. belguim looks after there roads streets there old buildings. There country is clean compared to This shite hole. In belguim the people pay 350 euros in council tax ayear they can manage. we pay to much council tax for little gain

[@BillyBobDingo1971]

That's sad how they just ley the place deteriorate. And that open sewer is shocking.

[@catherinefleming3112]

Its such a shame that Hight Street has been left to rot. I feel sorry for the shopkeepers who don't get enough help from whoever is responsible for this area. Yet there's many beautiful buildings still standing in Glasgow that's went right down the drain,, due to neglect and dilapidation, when these buildings could be sandblasted as well as foundations being renewed. Many tourists who come to Glasgow, don't just want to visit George Square, McClellan Galleries etc. They want to see old distinctive ancient buildings, inside and outside the City Centre . Many of these places of ancient history of 2000 years need a complete face-lift for the sake of more tourism, which would bring more money into the proud City Of Glasgow.

[@lido6457]

Glasgow is a disgrace nowadays. The streets are full of rubbish, dreadful pavements & roads. Buildings falling into disrepair and closed shops, offices & houses.. I don’t think I need go on. So, so sad to see

[@tracyyy99]

They (GCC) want the land for Student accomodation..it's that simple.

[@samanthacooper3988]

Update: A Year on from this film Sadly, despite a 5000 signature petition and against the wishes of our customers, local businesses and residents, our previous Labour controlled Glasgow City Council landlord City Property LLP evicted our successful 7 year old business, Ladywell, in March 2017 without offering us a like-for-like shop to relocate to. The media covered our 7 year battle to expose the horrific conditions of these shops rented from Glasgow City Council landlord City Property and we even made this film in 2016 to prove the extent of historic damp and rot on High St to City Property who haven't responded. Ladywell now lies empty in a row of vacant shops suffering damp and rot on Glasgow's oldest street. We look forward to regeneration of High Street as in our new council's manifesto. Thanks to all who've supported us & please read: t.co/00S0i56efn

[@r2dlee953]

and this is the goverment many are going to be voting for jesus

[@nellieneil5203]

And now they are being replaced with student accomodation. Makes me sick to know what Glasgow's supposed council are letting happen.

[@dannygmtg]

I wonder if the work Scottish watt have been doing there in recent months is to do with that open sewer. If it is it is too late for those businesses who have closed

[@terrytibs1977]

Am SNP council more interested in Independence than working for there constituents.

[@raycroal]

no the labour council in glasgow upto 2017 was clearly the problem here just ask the tennants

[@alanbbrady8196]

You can bet the Lord Provost will get his new fleet of cars every year and all the trimmings with their swanky dinners at the trades hall in stockwell street. They don't care. It's as simple as that...

[@stevenwood1320]

Fuckin rats,they only get away wi iy because we let them!!!

[@IronBhoy]

This is a public outrage. Why is Wee Nippola’s tartan gang not helping these people.?

[@raycroal]

the situation has had more hel[p since the change of labour council in 2017 but i fear too much damage was done possibly deliberatly during labours long concil tenure

[@calumpage]

Turn to Glasgow Celtic. I am a Celtic fan and this is exactly what a small part of the massive funds should go towards. It's what the club is there for and a few thousand quid to help keep the East End alive.

[@samanthacooper3988]

Calum Page That's a lovely thought but the entire High Street requires surveying to ascertain extent of historic rot etc and this will cost ££££. We need an investigation into why previous Labour council ran High Street down for 64years.

[@calumpage]

Hi Samantha - it is probably a massive long shot, but it might be worth getting in touch? But, you are right. There seems to be something more perfidious going on. Glasgow's urban fabric has been so badly damaged by the city's fathers. It's heartbreaking.

[@samanthacooper3988]

Calum Page Agree. We've publicised this since 2013 but the historic problems of High St were common knowledge when CityPropertyLLP was set up in 2009 and were imposed on we small business tenants as our landlord without public consultation. Why has this never bern debated even at council level? Why were CityPropertyLLP allowed to evict us after cancelling repairs to our shop in 2012? So many unanswered questions that we hope our new council will answer in an investigation. Thanks Calum.

[@terrencemunro]

But surely the councillors and MSP’s could step in here! After all they get HUGE, salaries of the back of tax payers!!

[@apassionforcarping5275]

The place is a shitehole and would be better bulldozed its all down to good old glasgow city council these problems didnt just happen in the space of a few years its decades of neglect that have caused these problems anx the council have passed the buck as is their usual practice

[@raycroal]

they have probably had backhanders and promises of more if they could just level the area for more construction, i am told the college bar isnt there no more which if true is just shameful

[@paddypete1]

nothing lasts forever,nobody likes change,however it will all get pulled down and new buildings will be erected,get your photo's while you can

[@lesleydevlin3656]

Stop flipping moaning I lived in ladywell for years