I commend Sanctuary for retaining the Nightingale blocks up Battlefield Road in addition to the listed administration block but the loss of the handsome interwar ward block facing Battlefield Rest (originally the Paying Patients' Annexe) - that is readily convertible to residential use - is simply unacceptable. I will be lobbying at the highest level to have this building and all major pre-war elements of the site spot listed by Scottish Ministers via Historic Environment Scotland as soon as possible. I would urge all others of similar mind to do so too. The locally made decision by HES not to list more of the site was ill-informed and unsound.

Can we have an isometric view of site showing what will be lost and what's to be retained?

Hear hear Paul, and I wish you every success in this.

It may assist you to know Historic Environment Scotland's letter of 4 December 2015 in response to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde's planning application reference 15/02741/DC concerning the extent of the demolition reveals that they reviewed the listing for the hospital in 2013 and decided not to extend it. However, I cannot find a handling report from the designations team related to this decision. Regardless, the decision reveals an unfortunate tone deafness and to my mind was a mistake. Even GCC City Design think the buildings worth retaining.

I know that the recent demolition of the Victorian villa at the northern end of the site was drawn to the attention of a senior HES officer who went out to have another look at the site so the hasty demolition in advance of consultation over the masterplan will come as no surprise to them.

So I hope they read the runes about just how unpopular this is - which is probably why Sanctuary are only prepared to have drop in sessions for the consultation and have ruled out any public meetings or presentations - and re-think it given the obvious townscape and aesthetic merits of the interwar elements of the complex.

Those buildings, including the handsome understated Private Annexe - which provides the perfect backdrop to the Battlefield Rest, indeed it is hard to imagine Battlefield without it - were by architects John Watson and his son John Watson Junior.

John Watson designed the superb extension to the City Chambers which in 1927 was awarded the first RIBA Scottish Architecture medal for the best city building completed within the preceding five years and was featured in last year's Scotstyle Exhibition for the Festival of Architecture.

John Watson Junior trained under both Sir JJ Burnet and E. Vincent Harris - one of the finest classical architects of his generation who designed the extension to Manchester's Town Hall Extension and Central Library - and his training shows in the restraint and understatement of the interwar and some of the postwar buildings which include some very fine neo-classical sculpture such as the superb and rare bas relief panel 'The Reaper' by a Douglas Bisset which sits over the entrance to the Pathology Department. How anyone could have looked at that and thought it not worth listing I do not know.

Would be good to organise a tour to show people exactly is being kept.
Also if the tour highlighted certain parts of the building that could be retained or re used elsewhere then this should be up for discussion.
New is not always good, Peter try to keep as much of the old character as possible
As once it's gone it's gone.
Even the old stone could be used for walls like the ones you see in the country.

I have to say I don't think they're going far enough here. We shouldn't be too precious about some of the more average average buildings that were built in Glasgow. Personally I don't think it would be a huge loss if most of what is there was razed. This kind of nicey nicey attitude to retaining old buildings has the air of independence supporting lefty liberals that seem to think they can change this country for the better, which will only cost more - bah!

I believe that Sanctuary paid £million with teh promise of a % of social housing and lareg consultation with locals. CALA offered £15M and were turned down in preference of the sensitive/community based approach promised by Sanctuary. NHSGCC would have been as wlel to take the better money. Sanctuary's flip flopping on community consultation and disregard of local opinion is indicative of the way the development will proceed. GCC have been lax in dealing this development.

Jack Onory, you have the air of UKIP voting Trump ,supporting idiocy in your comments. This building has been the heart of this area for along time physically and aesthetically.It would be a travesty if it were not preserved and replaced by some unimaginative piece of cheap housing with a shelf life of 50yrs at best.

I think more time and energy would be better spent trying to better our new hospitals and NHS in General, what a state thats in.....but thats a harder fight. It is an average building most of which isnt that attractive.
Not that great an issue for me.

#1. Good luck with that but you don't have much time as following a decision in the Court of Session following a challenge by Tesco for the Government buildings in Galashiels, HES will not list during a live planning application.

So they're demolishing the old x-ray department. Shame.

Could someone inform me of the whereabouts of the 'Grim Reaper' relief that used to be in the Pathology Department... Thanks.