Paved With Gold.
Friends and readers. As you meander down Pennywell road in a relaxed mode of thought, day dreaming of the delights that await as you near the hub of activity that is the Muirhouse Shopping Centre, you may pause for a moment to ask yourself that burning question that has kept you awake for hours night after night, who actually owns this covered delight of shopping heaven?
Well Pilton Sucks can at last put you out of your misery. After intense research which took all of 5 minutes it turns out dear friends that our shopping mall is owned by none other than Prudential Muirhouse. Who are they we hear you cry out, well they are in fact not a local lot as you may think on first seeing the name, but a Glasgow operation who buy so called run down shopping areas in Communities like ours, and then try to flog them off at a profit.
But wait on dear friends it gets better and the plot thickens. Enter stage left our old friends Lothian Health and their wad of cash burning a hole in their trouser pockets. Add the sum of Muirhouse Prudential and Lothian Health, and what might some conspiracy minded individuals get, why a nice little sale of our covered delight to cash rich Lothian Health and lo and behold, one new all singing and danceing Health Centre.
Makes Strictly come dancings quick step look snail like in comparison. But hold on a mo and let’s take a couple of steps back and have a closer look at this. £800,000 of taxpayers hard earned cash to put a roof on it possibly not the best investment there’s ever been, but that aside, heavy almost impossible to open steel doors,which if someone is coming the other way in a hurry might hurtle you backwards at some considerable speed, with you only being saved by the piles of Lottery and betting slips scattered around breaking your fall.
Can’t remember the last time the inside of the mall was ever washed, so a familiar pungent oder eminates around as you casually walk through at breakneck speed hoping that the monster steel doors at the Library end will open for you and you can enter into the rarified air that is Muirhouse Cresent.
Think on dear friends, all that could be lost to us if a clandestine deal is done behind the Communities back as is usual with cash heavy no sense Lothian Health and the McCauber like instinct of Prudential Muirhouse. That begs the obvious question, if something akin to that did indeed transpire, where would the punters go to revel in the delights that they currently enjoy within their covered mall? Morrisons perhaps, where one can enjoy all the fruits of modern shopping and even relax in their en suite cafe, being careful if you are of the female persuasion not to use the powder room as a number of unfortunate ladies have come into contact with a mysterious male member of staff who insists for reasons only known to himself to check them from time to time when they are in use, yes strange but true, must be part of Morrisons customer satisfaction policy.
Another little tip for the more enlightened shopper. Don’t attempt to use the cafe during the Telford College dinner break it’s full of scallywags whose mobile phones seem to go off incessently with tunes if you can call them that so loud there should be a health warning on them. Don’t forget it’s a feeding frenzy so be warned, abandon hope all ye that enter here, at that particular time anyway.
But back to the real issue and the slight of hand that might transpire between in the red corner Lothian Health with of course the Communities best interests at heart [not] and in the blue corner our maximising profits at any cost Prudential Muirhouse. Who may win this cash battle, certainly not Joe punter they merely get in the way of progress. It’s likely to be a close run thing but who cares as long as the public are kept in the dark and don’t realise what’s going on until it’s to late.
One other thought to horrible to contemplate, Prudential Muirhouse sell to Lothian Health and God forbid Halcrowe get the design contract AAAAAAAAAAAAAA.