Stanely Firs pub to be demolished at last
The Stanely Firs will finally be demolished after years of wrangling.
Housebuilder Eadie Cairns will tear down the former boozer to make way for flats.
The derelict bar’s car park had become a hotspot for underage drinking and has been blighted by graffiti and fire.
Builders are onsite to tear out the interior before bulldozers move in to raze the building.
Provost Lorraine Cameron has repeatedly demanded action at the pub. She said: “I am relieved that the residents will no longer have to look at this eyesore.
“They should not have to put up with the vandalism and general anti-social behaviour this brought to the area.
“I look forward to the regeneration of the Amochrie Road site and pray that it doesn’t take them another 11 years to redevelop it.”
The Stanely Firs shut without warning in 2007. Workers met with closed shutters after turning up to start their shift.
It is overlooked by neighbouring houses but has been used for gang battles and drug use and is daubed with spray paint.
Eadie Cairns was granted permission to build 48 flats on the grounds of the Foxbar pub four years ago. But it lay empty since it shut.
The owners had insisted there was “concrete interest” in developing the site. The bar has become a target for trouble since it closed.
Proposals to turn it into a retail hub, with a restaurant, shops and bookies were rejected by planners soon after.
Worried residents staged a highprofile campaign against those proposals, with more than 170 objections sent to council chiefs.
The plans were booted out by councillors, despite being backed by the local authority’s planning officials.
Eadie Cairns lost an appeal to the Scottish Government to have the decision overturned.