I am pleased to report that at its meeting today the Council's Safe, Sustainable Communities Committee agreed to include the Clune Park area of Port Glasgow as a priority in Inverclyde's Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP).
There is still a fair way to go however before we will see work start in Clune Park.
For that to happen we need to be able to agree a revised strategy with the Scottish Government. While discussions continue at officer level on how the Council and the Scottish Government can jointly address the issues in Clune Park I am disappointed that the Housing Minister, Alex Neil, has so far not accepted my invitation to visit the area to see for himself the challenges we face.
I firmly believe that a visit from the Minister would help in underlining to officers the urgency of coming up with a solution. It would also give a boost to the members of the residents' association, who are beginning to think that the Government has lost interest in their area.
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