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Sarah Hilley

Historic Glasgow school house 'too dangerous' to enter to become family home

A derelict listed schoolhouse in Glasgow could be saved from ruin after plans were lodged to turn it into a five-bedroom home.

Parviz Akhtar’s restoration bid for the former janitor’s lodge at Holyrood School in the Crosshill area has been praised after he bought it from the council.

Among a long list of problems, the decaying property on Dixon Road has no windows or doors, collapsed ceilings and floors according to a letter lodged with the council. Service pipework and cabling has been removed or vandalised and plants have been growing from the brickwork.

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