BUILDING conservationists have reacted angrily after demolition work began on a historic railway station built on land subjected to a controversial supermarket plan by Tesco.
Workmen yesterday sealed off the former Partick Central Station booking office in Glasgow in preparation for knocking down the building, which is thought to date from 1896 and has been praised by Historic Scotland and the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust.
The move surprised politicians and anti-supermarket campaigners, who have been locked in a bitter battle with Tesco over plans to build a new 7500-square metre supermarket behind Partick Cross, along with 900 student flats, 300 private flats and a 600-space underground car park.
However, it emerged yesterday that, although moves have been made to have the building and the bridge on Benalder Street listed or incorporated into the planning proposal, a building warrant authorising its destruction was granted in June last year.
Aileen Colleran, the councillor for Partick who yesterday visited the site, said it was "astonishing" that the demolition had been ordered before Tesco's plans had been decided upon by the council.
A spokesman for Tesco was unavailable for comment.
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