Regent Property was hoping to knock down the listed former printworks on Maxwell Street and use the site for a Radisson hotel that has a rooftop bar, The Herald reports. 

In November 2025, the application was refused by Glasgow City Council because of the size of the proposed scheme and its effect on the surrounding conservation area. 

The plan’s objectors opposed the loss of the old Mccorquodale’s Printers building.

The firm called on the Scottish Government to approve the development, with the appeal claiming that there is no alternative viable project, of a different scale or design. 

Regent Property has been looking to get listed building and conservation area consent for the demolition alongside planning permission for the hotel to be built.

The reporter, Susannah Moore, concluded that the principle of a hotel is “generally acceptable” and there is “justification for the demolition of the listed and unlisted buildings on site”. 

But Moore felt the “proposed design, by reason of the building’s massing, scale and height, fails to respond sensitively to the streetscape… and would result in harm to the character and appearance of the central conservation area and the setting of nearby listed buildings”.