Where is our doctor, dentist, new school? The sprawling suburbs of Glasgow lack basic amenities.

For many years Roboroston was mostly farmland, and is best known as the location of William Wallace. He surrendered to the British soldiers In 1305 AD.

It was later home to Robroyston Hospital but after it closed in the 1970s, housing developments began to appear on the land – slowly, first with Glendale in the 1980s and then rapidly from the late 1990s.

In the year In 2009 the town council identified Robroston and nearby Millerston as a community development area, with a masterplan to develop housing and infrastructure.

About 1,600 homes are listed, although the city council now estimates the final number will be around 2,000, as more homes outside the masterplan are being built on land there.

Several residents spoke to him. BBC Scotland Your Voice To express frustration at the lack of housing expansion.

Betrayal is an exaggeration on the scale of what happened to Wallace, but frustration is palpable among those who see broken promises from the housing developers who built there.

Eamon McCloskey, who has lived there for many years, said: “This area is bursting at the seams, but none of the benefits of more people moving in have brought it back to a proper community.”

“They used to sell houses based on schools, shops and facilities. Basically, we have the opposite problem. to nimbism We are desperate for everything in our backyard.