Egyptian Halls on the market as a development opportunity
July 25 2025
Marketing of Glasgow's Egyptian Halls as a development opportunity has begun ahead of a potential compulsory purchase order (CPO).
Commercial property agent Ryden is advertising the property on the instructions of Glasgow City Council as a commercial opportunity for anyone wishing to pursue the repair and reuse of the listed landmark. Currently under private ownership, the council will weigh any submitted proposals before selecting a preferred bidder and making a final decision on exercising its powers to wrest ownership.
Meanwhile, the current owners are appealing against the CPO but remain engaged with the council and are in the process of preparing a pre-application submission for a fifth planning application.
Councillor Ruairi Kelly commented: “Securing a commercial operator to take on the repair and reuse of the Halls is a core part of the CPO process which began earlier this year. In gauging the market interest we’ll know what the opportunities for the future of this architectural gem can be."
Derek Souter, director of USP & USI said: "... we look to continue to work with Neighbourhoods, Regeneration & Sustainability’s Mandy MacDonald and core team to get to a mutually reconcilable position as soon as that can be delivered to allow the Mackintosh-Thomson Mews concept to become a submitted pre-application, which of course would reduce massively all combined scheme development design, engineering, public safety complexities and causal uncertainties. We believe once this document is objectively assessed by GCC and by specific Scottish Government ministers/advisers this will be achieved."
A closing date for offers has been set for Friday 17 October.
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All it would take is one or two cases of the council actually following its legal obligations and using its given powers for word to go out and to stop this treadmill of dereliction and nonsense on the built heritage of the city.
If you look at it in terms of the number of lost buildings , the present administration are much less culpable than, say, the Labour administration of yore that lost vast swaths of the city and about a couple of hundred listed buildings from the mid 70's to late 90's. But that is not to give the current admin a pass- they have nailed their colours to the mast in deploying Ruairi Kelly to convene these issues. Set the timer and lets start counting from now on.
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