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e2wufos1 wrote:...In one sequence, in the flat designated for a makeover, Colin kicked a hole in the plasterboard walls in frustration at the conditions.
Timchilli wrote:e2wufos1 wrote:...In one sequence, in the flat designated for a makeover, Colin kicked a hole in the plasterboard walls in frustration at the conditions.
High heels can cause quite a lot of damage.
Tim
Mori wrote:Plea for cash to finish off Arden estate
THE bosses of a Glasgow housing scheme transformed by TV design duo Colin and Justin are appealing for more money to finish off the job.
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escotregen wrote:e2wufos1 what I could never understand about this programme was why did the director of the Glen Oaks Housing Association ever agree to his Association's participation in this programme in the first place? It simply helped reinforce with a UK tv audience, the overall, and misleading, image of Glasgow as a grimy, slum ridden scene.
Several months beforehand I got a call from an ex-colleague seeking a second opinion on a similar proposal. His housing project in a major English city had been approached by a TV production team to make such a programme. The only difference was that the intention then was to concentrate on a single street. What I heard was enough to warn me that this was typical of the current so-called 'reality' shows on TV that are made so that the 'better off' people can be entertained by the poverty and problems, and 'shortcomings', of 'poorer' peoples' lives. Fortunately, my ex colleague took my definite advice not to touch it with a barge pole.
From another angle, how could the association justify the diversion of resources, time etc. into helping with the making of this programme, when the housing association would have us believe it was already in a straightened financial situation? To say that such as programme is good 'because it showed the need for investment in the area',seems to show that the housing association seems unable to make it's case in the normal way that other associations do - showing how awful you can make a neighbourhood appear for tv entertainment doesn't seem a right and proper way to alloocate public funding.
Some local lads were so pissed off by the programme that with the assistance of admirable Steg from Sunny Govan Radio they have produced a short rap tape based in a close in Arden - now that ensemble is 'reality' and it is authentic and shows people doing and producing something themsleves! I don't think Justin and Colin would last 5 minutes in that close with those guys.
Targer wrote:"The Property Ladder of Life" 1Nov 07 which gives the best description of why our housing schemes/estates reach their current state/condition. There is no control on the type of people that are let into these housing schemes.
I should say I remember Arden as it wasin the 50's and this situation was not present.
Targer wrote:I fully agree with what you say Mark N but these people can't be allowed to spoil it for the rest/the majority. As seen in the program these people refuse to help themselves or be helped. Anything that was done for the good was destroyed. Yes, there are serious social problems but Glasgow Council (The George Square Mob) have had 4 decades to address the situation. After all this time of neglecting the issue it will be very difficult to correct. I should say I remember Arden as it wasin the 50's and this situation was not present.
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