THE property developer behind a tenement in Glasgow that was allegedly set on fire has hit out at the “false claims” that it was being renovated to house migrants.
NG Homes had been turning a building on Stonyhurst Street in Possilpark into affordable housing when a blaze broke out in the tenement on Sunday at around 5pm.
Six fire engines and specialist resources were sent to tackle the fire, and two remained at the scene on Monday morning to dampen down the remaining hotspots.
For months ahead of the blaze, rumours had been circulating online about the building’s future use, including that it could house asylum seekers.
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One group that spread the claims was the “Spartan Child Protection Team”, a hard-right vigilante group, which alleged in a Facebook video, while the fire was still burning, that the building had been “the source of a lot of chat that it’s being refurbished to house unvetted migrants”.
A spokesperson for the group said in the video: “The community had asked many times who are you refurbing it for, is it for local people who have been on housing lists for years, or is it for somebody else, and they were declined answers many times … so it now looks like something or somebody has taken it upon themselves to destroy that building.”
Last month, NG Homes did in fact issue a public statement saying that the refurbishment was to provide housing for local people on waiting...
THE property developer behind a tenement in Glasgow that was allegedly set on fire has hit out at the “false claims” that it was being renovated to house migrants. NG Homes had been turning a buil...