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Fears over Cardross scheme

Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2004 / October 15

Heritage campaigners have slammed a plan to build new homes in the grounds of one of Scotland's most celebrated post-war buildings. The Twentieth Century Society and the St Peters Building Preservation Trust are deeply concerned about an “incomplete and in some respects ill-considered” scheme to try to arrest the decline of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia's grade A listed Cardross seminary. The seminary has stood derelict since 1980 and is now a burnt-out skeleton. The new plans involve selling off 12ha of the estate, with planning permission for 28 homes designed by ARM Architects. The Ł2.5 million raised would be used to strip back the seminary and create a dowry to help arrest the decline of the modernist gem.

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