Campaigners and developers meet with council over plans to tear down old Langside nursing home

There are urgent calls to stop plans to tear down an old nursing home in Langside and replace it with a multi-storey block of flats.

Staff from Glasgow City Council's planning department will visit the building on 32 Mansionhouse Road this morning.

The proposed development by Surplus Property Investments Ltd would see 16 flats built.

Shane Sheridan lives on Camphill Avenue nearby and told Clyde 1: "This is a historic building which holds a huge place in the city's history.

"I understand that it is the place where the first manager of Celtic Football Club, Willie Maley, died when it was being used as a nursing home."

Campaigners and developers will then meet with the council at the City Chambers in Glasgow this afternoon before a decision is made on the building's future.

Shane added: "This is a fine building which is good to look at and it represents the character of the area.

"A lot of the other buildings on Mansionhouse Road have been upgraded and improved.

"Demolishing it would be a terrible waste of carbon and the materials used to construct it.

"I have been living beside this site for 35 years, I've raised my family there and I hate the thought that it could be ruined."

Gary Mappin represents Surplus Property Investments - the company submitting the proposals - and said: "Refurbishment is no longer economically viable.

"The cost of any makeover would likely exceed the value of the building on rennovation.

"We would like to create 16 modern flats which are energy efficient and studies show the property has been designed to prevent overlooking or overshadowing of other properties."

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