The next meeting of the Adelphi Action Group will be held at 6pm on Tuesday, 9th Feb, in the Aberdeen Trades Council, Adelphi, Aberdeen.
We’ll be discussing ideas for improving Adelphi, security cameras recently installed by an Adelphi business, contact with police community safety and other things.
Come along if you can manage
Sam
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Adelphi could benefit by being part of Aberdeen’s new Merchant Quarter.
I met up recently with Gary Atkinson, of the Carmelite Hotel, one of the people behind the Merchant Quarter (a business initiative which I mentioned in a previous post).
Gary explained the idea behind it was to create a connection between the two shopping hubs of Union Street and Union Square. There’s a feeling that people will park up to go shopping in one place and if they choose to go to the other then they’ll use either Market Street or Bridge Street to get there, bypassing the Green and all the shops, pubs and streets in that central ‘block’.
Gary said it was felt Adelphi was outside of this central block, but that it could become part of the Merchant Quarter in the future. I think there’s huge potential in this initiative and it would be exciting to be part of it.
The Adelphi Action Group will discuss this at its next meeting and consider inviting Gary along to speak about the Merchant Quarter.
Come back to the site to read more about Adelphi’s progress.
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“I’ve even seen people taking a sh*t…just over there,” said a resident of Adelphi pointing to the pavement which his living room window overlooks.
“I’ve seen them pissing there – everytime I look out of the window, almost. Something needs to be done about that. It’s disgusting. I can’t let my children look out of the window because I never know what they’ll see.”
I was taking pictures of the cobbles in Adelphi – see the video slideshow in the box on the front page – when the resident approached me and asked what I was doing. After we established that we both live in Adelphi he began his account of all the things he’s seen people doing outside his window.
“I saw the guy drawing that the other day, as well,” he said pointing at some graffiti on the wall opposite his flat. (See the picture below.)
I lov
e living in Adelphi…but some people really treat it like a toilet or a dark alley to do as they please (crime, anti-social behaviour, prostitution etc).
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News of the Adelphi Action Group’s (AAG) plans to revive the fortunes of Adelphi has reached the Evening Express. AAG chairman Sultan Feroz gave the newspaper some quotes about our activities for this P.19 story on Saturday 9th January, 2010.
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