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Old newspaper offices in Glasgow city centre can be demolished to make way for a 20-storey student accommodation block and co-living homes.
Glasgow City Council has approved a plan to transform a site at the top of Renfield Street which was previously home to The Herald, The National and Glasgow Times.
The applicant, MRP 200 Ren Ltd, part of construction firm McAleer & Rushe, intends to restore a C-listed fountain and reposition it at the heart of a new public square.
Plans include 381 beds in a purpose-built student accommodation block and 167 units in a 12-storey co-living development — where residents have a private bedroom but share communal facilities like kitchens.
A council report stated the development of the site layout and design has been “heavily influenced by the site’s major constraint”, the Subway tunnels running through the site, with taller buildings placed either side of this.
Commercial space that “could include food and drink, leisure or community offers” is also set to be provided. Councillors on the city’s planning committee approved the scheme on Tuesday.
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Cllr John Daly, Conservative, backed the application as the properties are “convertible”, so could be changed from student accommodation in the future if required.
He added the “role of this committee is to make sure we stand by guidelines and regulation and government policy”, but councillors also have “a duty to our city to make sure that we are providing housing, short-term, long-term, for rent and for purchase, and also to make sure that our city centre has a viable future”.
“There are plans here to bring young people to the city, who will spend, who will enjoy their life in Glasgow. I think that’s all to the betterment for Glasgow,” he said.
