Scotland’s Chernobyl Britain’s cheapest flats, Clune Park estate Port Glasgow Robert St GHOST T0WN

[@3681086]

My dad was brought up here and my gran continued to live there until she died in 2005. She kept her flat like a wee palace and all the neighbours took turns cleaning the close and tidying up out the back. It was when that older generation died out in the 90s and replaced with junkies it rapidly went downhill! Towards the end of my grans life she had people chapping her door asking for tinfoil and poor thing was clueless as to why they wanted it! If she had lived even a year longer we would had to have got her out of there it wouldn’t have been safe. I have so many good memories of this place it is sad to see it this way

[@Normanskie]

Senior architect told his staff that you can design a dwelling with a flat roof commensurate with your resignation.

[@livingoffgridinscotland]

Every flat roof I’ve seen rots out due to condensation and lack of ventilation to the underside of the boards…

[@chrisreynolds3700]

Fascinating!!!, but shocking aswell, how this sort of thing is allowed to escalate into such a state. Its a shame that this happens

[@livingoffgridinscotland]

It is such a shame. It’s mainly down to foreign investors and investors from the south of England that have bought them up at auction cheap, then can’t get builders to renovate them and can’t get letting agents to manage them…. The council should hold their heads in shame, as they should step in and get everyone in each block together and get them sorted.

[@Normanskie]

@@livingoffgridinscotland The Council will only try once to renovate and if it doesn't work it becomes a money pit, it only takes one person to bring the street down and decent people start to leave, then the wrong people move in and the private landlords do not vet them so they take anybody who pays the rent bringing the whole neighbourhood down. You have got to remember that a large majority of landlords purchase houses from an auction without ever seeing them. I dealt with a landlord regarding his house and he told me he had it for several years and had never seen it, he was taken aback when I told him that half his slates off his roof went 2 weeks ago and the other half went last week.

[@craigjones3793]

Such an eerie vibe! I d be a bit scared to go there ahhaha

[@livingoffgridinscotland]

It’s the Wild West

[@dorotheevanlunar5141]

It looks very similar to Copsa Mica, an extremely polluted place in Romania...

[@connorsabandonedandcamping3175]

I stay up the road from there alot of fires happen i love this place in 1 of the stairs there a total 4 floors in 1 room that has collapsed

[@livingoffgridinscotland]

Council needs to step in and steel shutter every empty flat. They have powers to enforce on the owners or buy them off the owners due to being “empty homes”

[@spence7884]

U wouldn't believe the money that's was spent on that place a few yrs ago all on the streets n cctv but not the flats I stayed down that way yrs ago

[@livingoffgridinscotland]

I remember the streets being done

[@misterraze745]

perfect place to self isolate :))

[@livingoffgridinscotland]

Yep Or everyone club together and buy a whole block, renovate them and look after the area!

[@jamesbond4981]

@@livingoffgridinscotland i would be down for that#

[@kevinchak5507]

oh I didn't even think there was such a thing on earth

[@gabriellegoth1832]

The place looks desolate! it's post-apocaliptic-ish

[@livingoffgridinscotland]

Totally deserted...

[@miketrevors3295]

This place looks abandoned, are you sure people still live there?

[@livingoffgridinscotland]

Yes still a few do

[@antoniovulcan1900]

Looks so empty! Do you happen to know how much would a flat be ?

[@livingoffgridinscotland]

Around £4,000 right now

[@antoniovulcan1900]

@@livingoffgridinscotland What ?! I can't belive that !

[@johnaitchie3803]

@@antoniovulcan1900 believe it

[@mikegoldwing5897]

Didn't know that are places like that in Britan, this looks more like Ucraine.

[@tropicalpalmtree]

This is the only place of its kind in the entire UK, and it's being demolished soon.

[@legandrydirk]

Most of the small industrial towns had its old housing pulled down or even feel down in some cases and the workers moved to cousil scheames after WW2,but there was still a lot of buildings from past history still up railway stations old factories that got bulldozed to put other houses on if people don't want to move and own it they shouldn't be forced to though especially if that is the case,the foreign investors will hold out to sell the land that my why they are in no rush to take small offers from counsil

[@gerrynicol3951]

Poor build flat roofs

[@kellygoesrawr5276]

The streets look clean. I've seen and lived in worse in the US.

[@livingoffgridinscotland]

They are clean It’s inside the buildings that are bad Too many landlords who have never visited the area and won’t work together to get things done Council aren’t interested either I’m sure with a social project and government grants and loans every property could be sorted. There is a massive shortage of rental properties at present

[@rolexnotimex9995]

Still doesn't compare to an average ghetto in the USA lol

[@rolexnotimex9995]

Still is redeemable and looks way pretty than some of the projects ive seen in my city in Ohio. Good luck y'all but this ain't as bad as y'all making it seem or maybe im just desensitized to this type of enviroment

[@rolexnotimex9995]

@DPhoenixPoet I highly doubt that there’s any home that’s considered a project home in the US that is nice enough to be worth 500k in ur country. Most projects are huge buildings with small apartments stacked like sardines, so I know that can’t cost 500k. Maybe the whole building? Idk what you mean it’s not making much sense lol enlighten me

[@jamesbond4981]

for 1.6 million you could buy the lot then? imagine having 5 million quid, and a plan. that would turn that place in to a gold mine.

[@livingoffgridinscotland]

Rental demand is poor But if you could buy a block of 8 flats and own a whole communal close, you’d have a fighting chance of securing it, cctv and turning them around! We are starting on a similar block of flats in Greenock first thing Monday morning!!

[@Pac-ct8cv]

I stayed there 😆

[@livingoffgridinscotland]

Many thanks for your comment!

[@kayleighmooney4579]

mate a go er all the time a live kinda near er

[@livingoffgridinscotland]

Many thanks for your comment!

[@philiproche8115]

Here we are kranki constituency how disgusting while shes screaming it off so it's only since the snp came into ruling

[@legandrydirk]

It's Port Glasgow in Inverclyde its not Sturgeon constituency it has nothing to do with the Scottish government its got more to do with private owners and landlords unlike Labour and Tories the SNP has been building more counsil houses hospitals and schools so do one

[@philiproche8115]

@@legandrydirk ha ha ha ha she spends more on her new house in portugal of your money sucker

[@legandrydirk]

@@philiproche8115 Sorry that didn't make sense maybe it did 8n your head but you maybe want to try again,listen she might be a lot of things but at least she wasn't partying when everyone else was under lockdown like that Johnston was he is a disgrace and anybody supporting him should be ashamed off themselves

[@legandrydirk]

@@philiproche8115 Sturgeon consistency is Govanhill in Glasgow this isn't Govanhill its Port Glasgow in Inverclyde,imagine raging about a person and you don't even know what your slavering about

[@philiproche8115]

@@legandrydirk our nicola has been partying for 15 year sucker