3 YEARS + 0 DAYS
since Thistle’s mismanaged Major Works Programme started on 7th January 2016
2 YEARS + 39 DAYS
since 30th November 2016 when “all of the works to all of the houses in Toryglen will be complete“. Today, 7th January 2019, still incomplete and still no completion date
Comments on the initial investigation into Thistle Housing Association by the Scottish Housing Regulator, August 2018
- serious delays and difficulties in managing a substantial contract
- weaknesses in Thistle’s approach to complaints handling
- widespread compliance failures across all six standards
- not compliant with the Regulatory Standards of Governance and Financial Management
- the governing body was unable to demonstrate that it has the skills and knowledge required to be effective
- serious weaknesses in Thistle’s openness and communications with its its tenants and service users
- Thistle is also failing to meet outcome two of the Scottish Social Housing Charter
- Thistle has not always delivered, or been very slow to deliver, agreed actions
- It has been unable to assure us that it has the governance and leadership capacity necessary to achieve compliance with the Regulatory Standards
Thistle’s failed management wonder why Toryglen residents have reason to complain?
More here
GrabTheThistle: The Toryglen Residents' Blog 
What people like crockwell fail to mention is the free driveways, yes that’s right FREE driveways that they got installed after the works even when they never had a driveway before all this. Him and all the rest of his gang who got new fences, new decking, new patios, new driveways and what ever else they complained about and got. What’s also been failed to get mentioned by mr crockwell is him drilling through the newly installed cladding to get power to his little shed, so now he has invalidated the warrantey of the cladding for that whole block.
So maybe some of the missing millions has been spent on all the free stuff the people got, so instead of accusing others maybe look a bit closer to home as all the works that’s yous got done for FREE really wasn’t free and had to be paid for some way or another.
I am not sure if he drilled the cladding before or after he dug through the gas pipe in his neighbours garden whilst doing work which involved all the 56 homes near by to be evacuated (I thought the war was over, sorry to the older folk who may have had flashbacks here) and involved numerous fire appliances and police emergency services time to be used because of his stupidity when they could have been elsewhere. And then Scottish Gas having to come and fix his cock-up.
Also how he doesn’t and never has had permission to have his driveway installed. No application has ever been submitted to the council to have the kerb lowered or to see if the pavement is adequate to be driven over (who knows, there could be a gas pipe under it being crushed as we speak every time he drives over it)
Let’s sum up, drilling through new cladding and invalidating warranty.
Digging up gas pipes causing evacuations.
Never requested permission for a driveway.
Driveway installed for FREE
I don’t expect this comment to be published as this is a one sided forum and we wouldn’t want the people to know what’s really going on and that nearly 200k was spent on all their freebies.
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