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The Lindsay Armstrong Support Group is still thriving in New Cumnock. I visited it recently: it has a charity shop in which it raises funds and, more important, it has a 24-hour helpline that is used by people throughout the country who have suffered in the same way that Lindsay suffered.
Some 1,900 properties are within 800m of the proposed stations on the new part of the line. The projection is that, by 2021, there will be a further 4,000 new dwellings in North Lanarkshire and double that number of new dwellings in West Lothian.
The STEP report to the 2001 Equal Opportunities Committee mentioned outreach working, and you bring it up again in your latest report. Are we letting these kids down?
Cumbernauld is the most extreme example as 70 per cent of homes in some tower blocks are owner-occupied. In the second round of the new housing partnership, resources were provided to authorities to deal with that problem.In the latest round of new housing partnerships the Government made it clear that new housing partnership money could not be used to provide grants to owners.
It is the council that says in its latest information leaflet that the scheme was backed by the recent public inquiry, whereas, as is well known, the inquiry was highly critical of the proposed exemption for city residents who live outwith the tolls cordon.