‘We’ve been abandoned… we just want a safe place for the whole community’

Chairperson of Glencairn Community Project Sonia Dickson of Glencairn Community Project helping pick litter in Glencairn estate (Luke Jervis/Belfast Telegraph)

Chairperson of Glencairn Community Project Sonia Dickson of Glencairn Community Project helping pick litter in Glencairn estate (Luke Jervis/Belfast Telegraph)

A campaign to build a community centre for one of Belfast’s “forgotten” estates is gathering steam with residents saying they want it to be the “heartbeat” of the area.

This summer a planning application was finally submitted for a purpose-built community centre in Glencairn — a project which has already been 10 years in the making.