| Tenant businesses and members of the local
community have been celebrating recent news that a proposal
to create a waste dump in the Linthouse area has been withdrawn.
The plan by Clydeport and WH Malcolm
was to reprocess demolition rubble at the Govan site for redistribution
around the country. The operation would have involved around
700 HGV movements on local roads every day.
The campaign was finally won as a result
of concerted action by the community and local businesses.
Gerry Belton, Managing Director of MI Technologies, one the
longest serving tenants at Alexander Stephen House, commented:
“This has been a wonderful victory for the local community
which has halted a proposal that would have done untold damage
to Govan. We can all look forward now to something better.
Special congratulations are due to Govan Workspace for the
campaign which they led and ultimately won.”
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