Back in April a proposed block of student flats next to Glasgow School of Art’s (GSA) Mackintosh building was rejected by planners. We have now been notified that the developers have lodged an appeal with the Directorate for Planning and Environmental Appeals. If you wish to lodge further written objections relating to the appeal, then you need to send a letter to the following address by 12 September 2017:

Directorate for Planning and Environmental Appeals
4 The Courtyard
Callandar Business Park
Callendar Road
Falkirk
FK1 1XR

Campaigners said the seven-storey block would have restricted daylight, and would have obscured much of the A-listed building’s south facade.

A spokesman for Haus architects said the design aimed to enhance a negative view of the building’s gable end.

Glasgow City Council planning committee ruled 12 to six against the plans.

Jane Sutherland, chairwoman of the Garnethill Community Council, had made a plea to the local authority to reject the proposed building.

She said it would be like parking “an ice-cream cart in front of the Mona Lisa”.
The plot on the corner of Dalhousie Street and Sauchiehall Street is currently occupied by a brown brick building topped with a flat green metal roof structure, and most recently operated as a nightclub.

The planning application noted the current building’s “negative impact on the character of the Conservation Area”.

GSA had raised an objection to the proposed development behind the Mackintosh building, which was damaged in a fire in 2014. A spokeswoman said that restricting light into the building would undermine students’ experience of the interior. She added that Mackintosh-designed buildings as a whole, and the view of the building’s south facade, was just as important as any other part of the building.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-39501937