Rachael Smith

Install Co-ordinator, Paisley Museum Reimagined | Tom Wright Fellow | Provenance & Collecting MSc | Art History MA | Former Curator @VERBureau | Views mine

[Paul Sweeney MSP @PaulJSweeney]

I am extremely disappointed at the inappropriate, plan to build a ten-storey student flat block on the former ABC site, in front of Glasgow's crowning architectural jewel, the Glasgow School of Art.

I am asking for the refusal of this application and urging for a revised design of reduced height that respects the architecture of Sauchiehall Street.

You can read my full statement of my reasons for objecting below.

[Paul Sweeney MSP @PaulJSweeney]

𝙊𝘽𝙅𝙀𝘾𝙏 𝙏𝙊 𝙇𝙄𝙎𝙏𝙀𝘿 𝘽𝙐𝙄𝙇𝘿𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝘿𝙀𝙈𝙊𝙇𝙄𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉

A planning application has been made to demolish the Category B-listed façade of the former McCorquodale’s Printing Works on Maxwell Street.

They claim the façade is beyond viable repair. I am challenging this

[Historic Buildings & Places @hbap1924]

🚨 #LiverpoolStreetStation Redevelopment: We Need Your Support! 🚨

We are calling for a fundamental reassessment of the scheme. We must balance heritage conservation with sustainable, functional modernisation.

🔗 Read the full story: https://t.co/vTOSxu3snw

#SeeItSaveIt

[Historic Buildings & Places @hbap1924]

The decision to allow the demolition of the M&S building on #OxfordStreet highlights the need to reform our planning system in favour of urban regeneration that promotes the #sustainable and environmentally responsible #reuse of historic buildings.

https://t.co/RnYJzG6aJp

[SAVE Britain's Heritage @SAVEtoReuse]

"There is still no national policy on embodied carbon emissions. It’s a broken model that incentivises demolition and it needs to change." SAVE director Henrietta Billings writes in @Arch_Today as M&S get permission to demolish their Oxford Street store: 👀https://t.co/GBhRszA9pC

[Robert Kwolek @RobertKwolek]

This is infuriating and deeply sad. This is how the character of a city erodes away, building by building. It’s made all the worse by the replacement being a pile of trash and the glee of the company’s CEO to see it go.

[The Victorian Society @thevicsoc]

What people are saying as they donate to the #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation fundraiser:

"This hideous and ridiculous development has to be stopped. The city of London planners need to get a grip and say NO to this madness."
David Ellis

https://t.co/2EYhvoGAFO

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Angela Rayner has given the go-ahead for the Marks and Spencer Art Deco building on Oxford Street, London to be demolished and turned into a characterless, dreary and environmentally wasteful rebuild. Architecturally elegant buildings like this should be adapted, not destroyed.

[Stuart Robertson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 @SDRobertson54]

Left to rot or burn: How Glasgow is squandering the legacy of Charles Rennie Mackintosh https://t.co/yXOqAmv1Av
@theAHSS @SAVEBrit @HistEnvScot @scotgov @RIBA @GlasgowHeritage @gbptrust @newglasgowsoc

[SGSAH @sgsah]

📢 SGSAH has 25 new Internships which are now OPEN for applications!

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List of partners👇

[New Glasgow Society @newglasgowsoc]

Look forward to finding out more about the proposal, especially to the south side of River Clyde. #CarltonPlace is in need of an energetic intervention following the tragic fire at the old hospice building. Probably need a bit more than a pedestrian route.

[Niall Murphy @MurphyNiallGLA]

It is pretty cynical to tell people this 👀👇is made of plasterboard and plywood and is about to fall into Sauchiehall Street only to see contractors with jackhammers trying to demolish the grand arch while other are walking over the roof of the former #ABC #Glasgow cinema 😡🤷‍♂️!

[Niall Murphy @MurphyNiallGLA]

The petition to safeguard #Scotland’s built heritage will be considered by @ScotGov tomorrow so signatures can still be added. Make sure your voice is heard 😉👍! 2/2
https://t.co/kEeA7XC2LS

[Niall Murphy @MurphyNiallGLA]

Calling #GlasgowHeritage folk 👋! If you don’t want to see the #ABC #Glasgow happening again please support @SAVEBrit’s campaign for minimum evidence and for councils to be able to call upon their own conservation accredited engineers in such scenarios 👀👇1/2

[Paul Sweeney MSP @PaulJSweeney]

The old hospice on Carlton Place has been ruined in just 6 years. It has taken two fires in a year for the Council to start enforcement action. Could Merchant City inspire @NewGorbalsHA's masterplan for North Laurieston?

I discuss this with @kmckenna63 👇🏻 https://t.co/rA9dEa2IXT

[Kevin McKenna @kmckenna63]

‘There are vast financial rewards if you demolish these old buildings and throw up brick student shoeboxes in their place. Their fate is often sealed on a golf course or the hospitality boxes of Parkhead and Ibrox: my newspaper article for The Herald https://t.co/v7zOzfT8G0

[Rachael Smith @itsyourstofind]

📢 LAST CHANCE!
Glasgow's Tall Buildings Consultation closes TONIGHT
Will they transform or harm our skyline? 🌆
Have your say now! 🗣️ https://t.co/BA6eBPl5l8
I'd rather see sustainable, human-scale development that protects our historic city. 🏙️❌ Than this 👇

[SAVE Britain's Heritage @SAVEtoReuse]

🚨URGENT DEADLINE // Yet more demolition threatened for Glasgow, this time the B-listed Hillhead Baptist Church. Object to this unsympathetic and unwelcome scheme by midnight on Friday 20th September. #saveglasgowsheritage

[Paul Sweeney MSP @PaulJSweeney]

A developer wants to demolish the B-listed neo-classical Hillhead Baptist Church, built in 1883 by Thomas L. Watson, and replace it with a clunky block of flats.

The deadline to object is midnight on Friday.

You can use my objection letter as a template👇🏻https://t.co/H7rP3f3U50

[SAVE Britain's Heritage @SAVEtoReuse]

🚨BREAKING NEWS // @scotgov has informed us that our petition for a debate on the future of Scottish listed buildings will be assessed on 9 Oct. Help us get to 5000 signatures before then! This urgent issue must be debated in Parliament. 🏦 Share now!
✍️https://t.co/HhDtHB5RmY