ONE of the founding members of Govanhill Housing Association and stalwart of the community has died.

Ann Scott was "in with the bricks" of the association, having championed the community controlled housing movement since the early 1970s.

By the early 1970s, housing in the Gorbals had been decimated and the slum clearances were creeping into Govanhill.

Ann, who was 84, believed passionately in saving the tenements and community where she grew up, and the wider area.

Ann, alongside a number of others such as Betty Stevenson and Joan Laing, began holding meetings in each other’s homes, and thus formed what would eventually become Govanhill Housing Association.

Born on Westmoreland Street, Ann was a vocal advocate for the community she grew up in and spent her life in.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: "I was very sad to learn of Ann’s passing.

"She was a wise voice and a real fount of knowledge about Govanhill and its people.

"She will be very sadly missed and I would like to extend my condolences to her family and friends."

Ann was a great great aunt, a Brownie leader, played piano for Abbottsford Chalmers Church, taught evening classes at Langsdie College, served on the committee of Thenue Housing Association and had a career in administration.

In her later years Ann lived in the Association’s Jamieson Court Sheltered Housing Complex, which she first visited in 1985 before it opened.

In 2015 Ann shared her memories on the thirtieth anniversary of Jamieson Court.

She said: "Govanhill has always had a changing population with, initially, Highlanders speaking Gaelic, Irish people speaking their own Gaelic, and Jewish people speaking Yiddish.

"Then Asians settled in the 1950s and 60s and now we have Eastern Europeans moving into the area.

"They will soon integrate into the community as have those coming before them.

"I am proud to say I’m from Govanhill."

A spokeswoman for Govanhill Housing Association said: "Ann was a steadfast, reliable, principled lady who gave countless hours of her time and energy to the community in which she lived.

"She will be greatly missed."