That the Parliament calls on the Scottish Ministers to exercise their powers under section 46(1) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 to call in planning application 24/01680/FUL, relating to a proposed nine-storey student accommodation block at 292–332 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, which was provisionally granted by Glasgow City Council’s Planning Applications Committee on 17 June 2025, pending referral to the Scottish Ministers in accordance with the terms of the Town and Country Planning (Notification of Applications) (Scotland) Direction 2009; understands that the application must be referred to the Scottish Ministers by Glasgow City Council due to the formal objection lodged by the statutory consultee, Historic Environment Scotland, which, it believes, raises serious concerns that the proposed development would detract from the adjacent, internationally significant, category A-listed Mackintosh Building at the Glasgow School of Art by obstructing key vistas to and from its south elevation, as well as from the nearby category A-listed Centre for Contemporary Arts to the west, which was designed by Alexander "Greek" Thomson; notes the Glasgow School of Art’s objection, which states that the provisionally approved proposals “fundamentally compromise the category A-listed Mackintosh Building” and that the development places its commitment to “deliver the faithful reinstatement of the Mackintosh Building as a fully utilised, purpose-design art school at significant risk", and urges the Scottish Ministers to act in what it sees as the national interest by reviewing any potential impact of the development on what it considers to be Scotland’s most architecturally important buildings, and to determine the application accordingly.
Supported by:
Foysol Choudhury