Anger as residents left stranded in Ayrshire ghost tower blocks

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It has been almost two and a half years since South Ayrshire Council decided to knock down the high flats at Riverside Place in Ayr.While the majority of the 234 flats are now empty, between 30 and 40 residents remain.

That number keeps falling as those who have had to wait for new homes or simply don't want to give up until the last move on.Some are still furious at the council, claiming that no good reason was ever made for the demolition, that undue pressure was placed on residents, many of them older people, and remain angry at what they see as a 'twisting' of the survey that ensured demolition was chosen.David Petrie, a community councillor and resident of Riverside Place, said that even some of the residents who were promised new