pozbaird Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-37230405 All that will change with the arrival of the golf course, athletics track, velodrome, coffee house, fishing pond / salmon leap, changing rooms with showers for holidaymakers with parked cars, aquatic centre, direct monorail link to the airport, five-star hotel complex, and an upgrade to the Buddie Good Food Van's sausage and tattie scone doublers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TPAFKATS Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 It the poor folks in Upper Whitecraigs I feel sorry for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isle Of Bute Saint Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 Ferguslie is a much improved area from what I remember as a boy. I'm sure more can be done but it looks much better these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TPAFKATS Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 Ferguslie is a much improved area from what I remember as a boy. I'm sure more can be done but it looks much better these days. Yeah. It's the dome that's made the difference [emoji6] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whydowebother Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 It does say between there & St Mirren Fc.I think the 'deprived' reference is directed towards us fans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stu Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 I see, as is so often the way with these things, the various politicians have waded in blaming all parties other than their own. That matters not a jot to the folk living there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TPAFKATS Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 Isn't that a large area that's mainly empty streets with grass and the odd derelict building? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isle Of Bute Saint Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 What means deprived area on Radio Scotland , well they talked about all the positives in Ferguslie , housing that has been built with locals taking pride in their gardens, St Mirren's stadium. Deprived takes into a count numbers unemplyed, health, vilance. Renfrewshire council are going to build a sports complex nest to out stadium , get this with a running track. Stuart Dickson will be pleased. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linwood buddie Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 The Sports Complex has been an idea that's been banded about for many years , the Coo parks and Craigilea School site were the suggested area but I think I heard something about the old burn that ran by the school as being a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibbles old paperboy Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 This won't sit well with David Park on facebook with all his jokes about deprivation in Greenock... Greenock doesn't get a mention in the top 10. At least we're first at something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaside Nipper Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 5 hours ago, Isle Of Bute Saint said: Ferguslie is a much improved area from what I remember as a boy. I'm sure more can be done but it looks much better these days. Seriously, looks much better ? It must have been something post apocalyptic before the improvements then. Yet again Paisilee gets a caning, yon Cooncil must be very very proud. At least they are consistent in their unaccountability, all the usual swerving and finger pointing, as per usual. Anyway, what surprises me about the 'Top Ten' is that Govanhill isn't there. It was there in 2012. Are we to believe that the place has improved in the last four years ? Yerr avvin a giraffe, some political expedience at play here, hmmmmmmm. Anyway, Feegie,well it doesn't really matter cos a mega Sports complex is going in , we're gonna demolish all the hooses. Nothing to see here, move along then. Damage duly done on Paisilee once again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaside Nipper Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 When was Feegie redeveloped then ? Don't say when St Mirren relocated I'm maybe just a tad younger than yourself, however as for my tertiary alcoholic brain degradation, maybe mentally I'm older than you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 1 hour ago, Seaside Nipper said: When was Feegie redeveloped then ? Don't say when St Mirren relocated I'm maybe just a tad younger than yourself, however as for my tertiary alcoholic brain degradation, maybe mentally I'm older than you I worked on some of the first batch of targeted house refurbishments in Ferguslie (early seventies), at that time any house that became empty had new bathrooms and kitchens fitted along with re-wiring and new plumbing. It didn't last long though because all the copper pipes, tanks and wiring were gone by the next morning. There were lookouts sitting up on the roofs of houses and they could see and give warning of any approaching polis, at that time the main street had only the one way in and one way out for cars, it was organised crime i witnessed and a severe loss of public money. Years later i was working on the total refurbishment of all the houses in the Westmarch area where the ground now stands, a street at a time was done up and families moved in straight away, local security guys were employed and not much was nicked at nights, a few years later the houses were knocked down, again a huge loss of public money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original 59er Posted September 1, 2016 Report Share Posted September 1, 2016 It could be said that as Saints supporters we are deprived............................... of a good football team that can consistently stay in the SPL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isle Of Bute Saint Posted September 1, 2016 Report Share Posted September 1, 2016 I honestly didn't think you were young enough not to remember it before the improvements. Was thinking the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isle Of Bute Saint Posted September 1, 2016 Report Share Posted September 1, 2016 Good. Now can you explain it to me because I haven't a clue what I was talking about. No change there. [emoji4] First off I'm not saying Ferguslie is perfict. It now has new housing where locals take pride. There is also private housing. It has a doctors surgery. It has a new community centre, it has a pharmacy, it has a learning centre run by West Collage Scotland. It has artifical 5 a side pitches. It has a library. These are all thing not there in my younger days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isle Of Bute Saint Posted September 1, 2016 Report Share Posted September 1, 2016 I have been wooshed mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaside Nipper Posted September 1, 2016 Report Share Posted September 1, 2016 22 minutes ago, Isle Of Bute Saint said: I have been wooshed mate. Aye you sure have, twice actually, trying to categorise me in the same shifty free bus pass department as yourself and auld Gandalf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isle Of Bute Saint Posted September 1, 2016 Report Share Posted September 1, 2016 9 hours ago, Seaside Nipper said: Aye you sure have, twice actually, trying to categorise me in the same shifty free bus pass department as yourself and auld Gandalf You just out pampers mate it was not that long ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vambo57 Posted September 2, 2016 Report Share Posted September 2, 2016 I'm sure i read somewhere that if you just divided all the millions that have been thrown at Ferguslie over the years between each of the families there,they would have become overnight Millionaires. As an aside... the radio the other day, they announced that the total number of Millionaires in Scotland had fallen by 10%... to only 43,000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
windae cleaner Posted September 2, 2016 Report Share Posted September 2, 2016 I don't think Feegie is the worst in Scotland It's not the worst in Renfrewshire You can easily walk through it no problem unlike other areas full of junkies Parts of Johnstone and Linwood are worst for this and other parts of Paisley Still got it's bad name from the 70's and 80's that's all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
civilsaint Posted September 2, 2016 Report Share Posted September 2, 2016 It is a completely pointless PR exercise identifying the No.1 ranked area of deprivation. There's nothing between the top 500 zones (for the purposes of the study the country was broken into circa 7,000 zones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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