WEST End residents are fighting a fresh bid for flats next to a catastrophic tenement collapse which could have cost lives. On August 27, 2007, emergency crews were called to 275 Wilton Street, near Queen Margaret Drive, in North Kelvinside after huge cracks appeared in the blonde sandstone building.
Firefighters evacuated five people, including a heavily pregnant woman. Minutes later, the building collapsed.
Police said it was "miracle" that no one was hurt.
Standard Homes Ltd, had started work on a six-storey block of 16 flats on the site adjacent to the building.
The community believes the collapse may have been linked to work that was being carried out to create an underground car park. But inquiries by the Evening Times suggest the cause of the collapse has never been established and the outcome of an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive is not known.
The development was halted and Standard Homes, which was headed up by Nahid Ali and Tanveer Ali, is said to have been dissolved.
The owner of the collapsed block of flats, Jagdish Bassi is understood to have abandoned efforts to bring a legal claim against the developers and the gap site has been lying vacant every since.
Now, a new company Dunand Ltd has been given planning permission to build 16 homes on the site between 259 and 275 Wilton Street. Nahid Ali and Tanveer Ali were listed as directors up until last year.
Dunand is registered on Company House at Ballantyne & Co, 60 St Enoch Square and the new director is listed as Robeena Kahlid. Ms Kahlid and Tanveer Ali are both registered as living at 70 Barrington Drive off Great Western Road.
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