As I sat down to write my article, I thought I’d have to mention that the weather this last week has been great and I’m sure you’ll agree, long may that continue.

As my colleague Bailie Balfour wrote in his column a couple of weeks ago, we have a very unusual set of circumstances coming together in the constituency.

The Munro Court elderly persons care home was sold by its previous owner, Bield Housing and Care to Phoenix Futures Trust, a company that specialises in drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

This, on the face of it, is completely legal, as Phoenix are a UK-wide company that assists people who are entering the substance recovery process.

However, the methods that both companies have used to spring this proposed change on the local community has left a usually quiet corner of Knightswood seething and all four local councillor’s working together to get answers.

This situation has not been assisted by the city council planning department insisting the change of use as proposed does not require planning permission, as essentially the two companies run care homes, leaving all the local residents and their elected officials without a voice.

To my mind the issue that seems to have been missed out is that there are 27 elderly vulnerable people in the houses surrounding this complex that I’m told have shared equity 70/30 ownership with Bield. Not only have they not been consulted, it looks to me that their interests have not been considered by the companies nor the council’s planning department.

There is much more mileage in this story before the community will be anything like satisfied.

On a different note it’s great to see Knightswood’s BMX track getting to the final stages of construction with the external road works underway. I think it shows the best of what our city can do and look forward to its opening.

There were two major events in the Scottish Parliament in the last week that I think are especially worthy of mention. I was privileged to have been asked to host an event and conference by the Scottish Ahlul Bayt Society who had invited Adama Dieng, the UN under secretary general who specialises in human rights and genocide prevention.

The event was focused on how all the religious groups in Scotland can come up with a workable programme in the next six months or so to assist Mr Dieng in his vital work. I look forward to seeing the results.

The second event was the historic and unanimous cross-party votes rejecting Theresa May’s Westminster Brexit power grab (barring the Tories – no surprise there).

If allowed this would have massive repercussions for devolved powers no matter who forms the majority party in Scotland and thankfully the other parties can see that.

At this late stage all we seem to be being asked to do is to decide on the best, worst option and that’s simply not good enough.