Hope House (Homeless Shelter) on Clyde Street Closed?

[bAzTNM]

Just noticed that this mad place has closed down. Boards all over the windows of the first couple of floors.

Why was it closed? Did somebody go bust? Just that they've been trying to close it down for years, then suddenly it closes all of a sudden.

Halle-freakin-luya! Or something.

Cheers!

[groovyclown]

This was a planned/phased closure with the number of residents decreasing over the last couple of years.

As a former resident of Clyde Street it will hopefully make a vast improvement to the type of people that you find using the river walkway - currently being upgraded.

The things I have witnessed there over the years - open drug use and sex in daylight hours. I'm sure you get the picture.

[bAzTNM]

You get the feeling the owners just didn't care at the end. Every time I walked, or cycled past, on a Sunday morning (last couple of months) you were liable to see a couple of idiots lying sparko outside it conked-out.

[The Egg Man]

I believe the Salvation Army are using the savings in running costs + (possibly) the sale of the site to fund a shiny new citadel on Houldsworth Street.

[brickwall]

Surely worth two bob to the housing developers out there.

[groovyclown]

You get the feeling the owners just didn't care at the end. Every time I walked, or cycled past, on a Sunday morning (last couple of months) you were liable to see a couple of idiots lying sparko outside it conked-out.

The last couple of months!

There have been idiots hanging around there for at least ten years - they used to shoot up next to the river at the corner of the Victoria bridge in the former 'Carrick' car park, until Carrick Quay residents including myself got the little hut that used to be there removed. They then moved to under the 'City Union Bridge' opposite the shelter. If you look the council put a load of boulders there to make access more difficult to stop them and fenced off the area under the bridge since then there has always been a mottly assortment of characters hanging around on either side of the road in front of the place.
Glad it's closed but I guess the problem has just been moved somewhere else.

[The Egg Man]

Surely worth two bob to the housing developers out there.

The reason I said 'possibly' is because I'm not sure the site actually belongs to the Salvation Army. There was talk it had been 'lent' by Glasgow City Council for as long as it was needed as a hostel.

[The Egg Man]

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Glad it's closed but I guess the problem has just been moved somewhere else.

The trend seems to be for Glasgow City Council to apply a condition to financial support for social housing that a certain %age, depending on the funding, of the housing development be earmarked for homeless folks - either direct from GCC list or via the likes of the Simon Community or the Salvation Army etc.

[bAzTNM]

It would be a perfect bunch of flats for someone. You'll have to fumigate the place about 200 times to get the "junkie" away from it though.

[Sydney Rosewater]

It would be a perfect bunch of flats for someone. You'll have to fumigate the place about 200 times to get the "junkie" away from it though.

productive contribution.

[InkMan]

It would be a perfect bunch of flats for someone. You'll have to fumigate the place about 200 times to get the "junkie" away from it though.

It didn't seem to take two hundred fumigation sweeps to renovate the Great Eastern or any other place that I can think of.

I detest the casual use of NIMBY as a petulant insult to for example insult the residents near the Childrens Home in Hollowglen Road in Springboig where, in fact, each concern raised prior to its opening proved to be justified. Such concerns were made with respect to the work done within the facility and included examples of trouble from such a home being placed in the middle of a residential area in another area of - surprise surprise - the east end of out city.

Your sweeping generalisation; apart from being incorrect to the group you intend to insult, shits on residential groups when they make relevant complaints as it gives the sneering, preening and above all perpetually self-serving "what you all have to understand" political, social or professional commentators an example to tarnish their concerns with.

I don't like to have a pop at anyone but your comment isn't necessary.

Shuggy

[hamsco]

There is an application in at present with the City Council to redevelop Hope House as Student Accommodation. Passing by today, the FOR SALE sign has been removed and there were guys in working on the modern built bits of it.

[Fat Cat]

It would be a perfect bunch of flats for someone. You'll have to fumigate the place about 200 times to get the "junkie" away from it though.

It didn't seem to take two hundred fumigation sweeps to renovate the Great Eastern or any other place that I can think of.

Shuggy

The Great Eastern just used the frontage. The rest of it was falling down so was demolished.

[hamsco]

It is being developed into private student accommodation and renamed Clyde House. 90 student 'pods'. Opening September 2014. Looks like the same idea as the development on St. Andrews street of the old district court building. Glad to see a nice old building being used.