Council inspectors have told the owners of the hotel - which receives £1m a year in a taxpayers cash - to carry out urgent repairs.
A hotel in Glasgow that receives £1 million a year in taxpayers' cash to house the homeless has been ordered to improve living standards. Glasgow City Council inspectors have told the owners of Queens Park Hotel in the south side to carry out urgent repairs after its filthy living conditions were exposed.
The hotel gets £2,800 a month in housing benefit per homeless couple for a double room and also charges the local authority £1,400 a month for a single room with shared toilet facilities, reports the Daily Record. Read more: Glasgow hotel 'being run like open prison' rakes in £1m a year in taxpayers' cash to house homeless Sign up to Glasgow Live's newsletter Get all the latest Glasgow news and headlines sent straight to your inbox twice a day by signing up to our free newsletter.The morning newsletter arrives every day before 9am and the evening newsletter, manually curated by the team, is sent between 4pm and 5pm, giving you a round up of the most important stories we've covered that day.One room seen by a reporter had a chair, a bed, a broken chest of drawers, a stained carpet and mattress, and a TV hanging off the wall. After the conditions were revealed last month, the council sent a team to carry out room-by-room inspections. They gave Queens Park Hotel owners Malvin Dale Ltd a six-week deadline to bring it up to an acceptable standard.Neighbours of the property wrote to Scottish Labour MSP Paul Sweeney to complain about antisocial behaviour. They also raised concerns over residents’ welfare after witnessing altercations with staff. Sweeney said: “It is welcome that Glasgow City Council have sent inspectors to the hotel and provided the owners with a list of essential repair works. “However, we only got to this point because of media attention rather than a genuine willingness to listen to the concerns that had already been raised privately. “Residents had been engaging with the council and others for months. Not a finger was lifted despite repeated warnings that the safety of those living in and around the property was in jeopardy, so I’m sceptical these inspections will elicit the level of change required.” A meeting was held earlier this month between neighbours of the hotel, Glasgow City Council, police and politicians. The council said: “We work with the owners of establishments to ensure accommodation is of an acceptable standard. When standards are not met, we fully expect owners to put remedial actions in place.”Glasgow mum saves drowning toddler found face down in park pond'Irreplaceable legend' Paisley DJ dies from rare cancer as tributes pour inGlasgow drug deaths 'unacceptable and shameful' as support groups urge early intervention
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