Tenants in battle over Glasgow pub plans.
Ibrox.
A Glasgow tenants' association, representing nearly 1000 high flat dwellers, is preparing to do battle over a "fundamental human right."
It is demanding the right to protest over the sitting of two public houses near their three blocks of multi-storey flats which overlook Ibrox Stadium.
Iona Court Tenants' Association has already written to Prime Minister Edward Heath, and is to have its case taken up in the corporation by Councillor Dr Daniel Docherty, one of three Labour councillors in Govan.
The association, which speaks for more than 300 families, claims that when the public house licences were granted in October, 1969, it was unable to lodge a protest... because the flats had not been built!
"It seems grossly unfair that just because homes were not built at the time we were unable to object," says association chairman, Mr. David Ball.
"At the time the licences were granted the present residents of the multi-storey flats were spread all over the city. "if we do not manage to have the building of these public houses halted then we shall demand to be re-housed elsewhere in the city." The public houses are planned for Summertown Road at its junction with Broomloan Road and at Broomloan Road at Woodville Street.
A March?
The application understands that final planning approval for the public houses has not yet been granted and it hopes to prevent this from happening.
The association has had several emergency meetings over the past few weeks and it plans a march on the city chambers if its initial protests do not meet with success. A corporation spokesman confirmed that the applications for planning approval on both public houses had been continued. "The Planning Committee is always willing to hear views which are put forward."
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