en.Wedoany.com Reported - Glasgow City Council has approved a planning application to demolish a Category B listed former church building and construct a residential development on the site.

The application, submitted by Wemyss Properties Ltd, involves the complete demolition of Hillhead Baptist Church, located within the Glasgow West Conservation Area. The site lies on the periphery of the Partick/Byres Road Major Town Centre, within an established residential area with high public transport accessibility. The church occupies a corner plot on the west side of Cranworth Street and the south side of Cresswell Street.

The church was built in 1883, designed by Thomas Lennox Watson in the Greek Revival style, predating the surrounding tenement flats. The building complex includes a three-story caretaker's house facing Cranworth Street and a single-story hall (The Tryst) facing Cresswell Street. The main church hall has been out of use since 2004, with the remaining parts vacant since 2017, during which time the building's condition has continuously deteriorated.

The demolition of the building makes way for a development comprising 32 apartments, accompanied by landscaping and infrastructure. The planning application received a total of 332 objections, citing concerns over hazardous ground conditions, building scale and height, overdevelopment of the site, loss of community space, and neglect and disrepair of the existing building.

At the Glasgow City Council meeting on June 16, the application was approved with conditions by a vote of four to three. The decision was passed despite an alternative proposal from some councillors to continue marketing the property in order to preserve the building facade.

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