August 8 2024

Emergency demolition works are to be carried out at a former religious centre at 10 Great George Street in the heart of Glasgow's West End to make the building safe following the collapse of its roof and interior structure.

Dem-Master has been instructed to delicately clear fallen masonry and timber before bracing masonry walls with steel beams in a facade retention operation.

The demolition experts will employ a mobile crane dangling a protected cage for the dangerous operation while the remaining roof and floors are removed piece by piece using handheld tools. Working from the top down demolition will then proceed floor by floor, bracing each level to minimise the danger of further collapse.

The programme of work has been developed by Curious who recommend stripping the building back to its stonework. They wrote: "The building, as existing, is in a state of partial collapse due to extensive internal rot and decay and needs to be made safe and the external masonry walls/structure protected and repaired."

Temporary supports will be fixed to existing openings, leaving the ashlar stone undamaged. 

6 Comments

#1 Posted by Georwell84 on 8 Aug 2024 at 11:58 AM

Great that a real effort is being made to retail the facade here. Why can't this be done to the grand entrance to the ABC building in Sauchiehall street.

#2 Posted by Graeme McCormick on 8 Aug 2024 at 15:56 PM

Dreadful that the building has been allowed to degenerate to the current state. One of many! If Annual Ground, Floor and Roof Rent was levied on all public and private sector land and property whether occupied or vacant then owners would be obliged to steward their properties to meet the charge or find they couldn’t afford to keep them. We need a cultural change in ownership.

#3 Posted by Lovely on 8 Aug 2024 at 15:58 PM

It's a little better than nothing but why were repair notices not issued by the council to the owners at a much earlier point to prevent the complete loss of everything except for exterior walls?

If they didn't like it they could easily sell on in a valuable area and let someone else have a go.

As it is the conversion value has now increased rewarding the owners (intentionally or otherwise) due to there being nothing internally left to restore of work around.

Meantime the local area gets rewarded with many years of an eyesore, dereliction, danger to the street and the loss of most of the listed building still ongoing for a good few years yet to come.

#4 Posted by KB on 8 Aug 2024 at 16:24 PM

Hope the council charge the owner and slap a compulsory purchase order on it. This has been a festering wound for too long.

#5 Posted by Jon on 9 Aug 2024 at 09:29 AM

Expect to see a mysterious fire here in the coming weeks...

#6 Posted by KB on 9 Aug 2024 at 10:28 AM

#5 There's nothing to burn.

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