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

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."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 ScotlandMore stories from ScotlandFor 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 BBC 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...