STREET Named In Honour Of Couple Who Served As MP And MSP

Work under way at the site of the housing development on the site of the former King’s Glen School

A STREET in a new Greenock housing estate is to be named after a couple who served as MP and MSP in the Inverclyde area.

Councillors agreed that one of the roads in a development at the site of the former King’s Glen Primary School at Kilmacolm Road be called Godman Place.

Dr Norman Godman was Labour Member of Parliament for Greenock and Port Glasgow from 1983 to 1997, and for Greenock and Inverclyde from 1997 to 2001. He died in 2018.

His wife Trish was elected to the Scottish Parliament as Labour MSP for West Renfrewshire and served from 1999 to 2011. She died in 2019.

Cloch Housing Association is developing 57 flats and houses at the site which will have three internal roads. The Godman name suggestion was made during consultation with local councillors.

The other two roads will be called King’s Glen Place and Woodhead Road (after the former Woodhead Quarry).

Cloch Housing Association carried out its own consultation exercise which resulted in a number of suggestions including:

• Anderson Place/Road (after a former headteacher of King’s Glen School)

• Lind Way (after a former music teacher at King’s Glen School)

• Cloch Avenue/View • Kilmacolm Avenue

• Brown Road/Avenue/Court (after the first permanent director of Cloch Housing Association)

• Cassells Close (after a former Cloch colleague)

Inverclyde Council had previously said it did not normally name streets after individuals but it made an exception in 2018 in the case of former Morton chairman Douglas Rae and again in October last year for former council leader Robert Jackson.