During 1987, a group of residents in the James Nisbet Street area of Royston got together to find a way to improve their desperate housing conditions for themselves.
During October 1988 James Nisbet Housing Co-operative was registered with the Housing Corporation in Scotland (who then became known as Scottish Homes). On 1st April 1989, the Co-operative took ownership of 264 tenemental properties from Glasgow City Council. Of these, 38 properties were demolished and the remaining 226 comprehensively refurbished during the period 1989-1996. The Co-operative then undertook it’s first new build project in partnership with a private devloper in 1996. This resulted in 40 properties for the Co-op to rent, a mixture of 2, 3, 4 and 5 apt homes including cottage flats, terraced and semi detached houses. These houses were the first of their kind in the Royston area and remain highly desirable to this day.
At the same time Garngad Housing Association were busy improving the properties that they had bought from Glasgow City Council in 1991. Regeneration of this part of Royston took a leap forward with the demolition of nearly 300 inter-war tenement flats and in their place, Spire View Housing Association built a rage of properties that changed the face of Royston forever.
Today, Spire View Housing Association owns a range of properties that are the equal of any homes in the City both in the public and private sector.
