grant planning approval f<\/a>or the nine-storey block, with their recommendations put before ministers for a final decision on whether to overrule Glasgow City Council or rubberstamp the approval.<\/p>\nThe move grants a reprieve for the A-listed landmark after the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society and others warned that the development by Vita Group and Haus Architects placed the Mackintosh Building at ‘significant risk’.<\/p>\n
Welcoming the decision to call in the development architect and GSA alumnus Alan Dunlop told Urban Realm: “A proper hearing and review is required which would give Glasgow School of Art and Historic Environment Scotland (HES) an opportunity to present their objections. It was clear from discussion at the planning committee that the impetus was to just have ‘something built’. This was crass and inappropriate given the international importance of Mackintosh’s school of art and the proposal\u2019s deleterious impact upon it.”<\/p>\n
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