Where's our doctor, dentist, new school? The sprawling Glasgow suburb lacking basic amenities

Key developments are emerging from the global stage. Where's our doctor, dentist, new school? The sprawling Glasgow suburb lacking basic amenitiesImage caption, Alana Muir says her son could face a 90 minute walk every day just to get to schoolByJonathan GeddesGlasgow and west reporterPublished5 hours agoWhen Alana Muir was a child growing up in the Glendale estate of Glasgow's Robroyston area, she could look out the windows of her house and see green space everywhere. Forty or so years later, Alana still lives in the area.

Her view, however, is of houses - lots and lots of them. Since the 1990s Robroyston has exploded in terms of housing, with more and more families coming to live there. The problem for locals old and new, however, is that nothing else has accompanied them.

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"It's just houses and houses", sighs Alana. "We have no doctors, no dentists, hardly any sports facilities - and there's hundreds more houses on the way. " More stories from Glasgow & West Scotland More stories from Scotland For many years Robroyston was mostly farming land, and best known as the location where William Wallace was betrayed and handed over to English soldiers in 1305.

It later was home to Robroyston hospital but after it shut in the 1970s, housing developments started to appear on the land - slowly at first, with Glendale in the 1980s, and then rapidly from the late 1990s onward. In 2009 the city council identified Robroyston and nearby Millerston as a community growth area, complete with a masterplan to bump up housing and infrastructure accompanying this. About 1,600 homes were listed, although the city council now estimate the final number will end up at about 2,000, due to extra homes outside the masterplan also being built on land there.

Several residents contacted Scotland's Your Voice to express frustration over the housing expansion not being accompanied by anything else. Betrayal on the scale of what happened to Wallace would be an exaggeration, but there is evident disappointment among people living there over what they see as broken promises from housing developers who have built there. "This area is bursting at the seams, but none of the benefits from so many people moving in has resulted in anything going back into the actual community," says Eamonn McCloskey, who has lived there for several years.

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"They sold houses on the basis of schools, shops and amenities coming in. Essentially we have the opposite problem to nimbyism in that we are desperate for anything in our backyard. "Image caption, Robroyston has become dominated by housing developmentsEamonn and Alana are among a group of residents sitting in a coffee shop in the area's retail park - built about 30 years ago and one of the few additions to Robroyston that is not just housing.

The surge in housing, many of which are bought by expanding families with young children at a time when Glasgow is facing a housing emergency, has led to practical problems. Alana's son Ethan still does not have a secondary school to attend after the summer holidays end.

The story has become one of the most prominent items on the global agenda.