Glasgow City Council (CC) has issued a ‘building preservation notice’ on a former cinema building halting demolition, as demolition work had begun on the building before the council granted listed status, reports Glasgow World.
image for illustration by emma mykytyn / Old Mecca/Vogue Cinema, Balmore Road, Glasgow – Commons Wikimedia
… HES will now designate the building with the C listing…
Glasgow World writes:
Glasgow City Council planning department on 15 January issued a Building Preservation Notice on the Balmore Road building which used to be home to the Vogue Cinema in Possilpark.
This notice makes any further alterations or demolition works illegal for a further 6 months…
It is understood that since this action has been taken to protect the building, HES will now designate the building with the C listing it has found the building worthy of.
The building originally opened as the Mecca in August 1933, with it being designed by James McKissack who is best known as the architect of Glasgow’s first purpose-built ‘art-house’ cinema – the Cosmo…
The auditorium space has not been used for over 25 years…
Demolition work had begun on the building but will now halt for at least six months.
