SNP MSP Humza Yousaf has called for a cross-party consensus over controversial plans to charge Govan residents to park outside their homes.

Labour-led Glasgow City Council is planning a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) for the G51 postcode area to prevent hundreds of staff who work at a new super hospital using the streets as a car park.

The proposal will force people who live near the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital to pay £50 a year for permits.

There are also plans for business permits which cost £700 a year, visitor parking permits costing £2 for six hours and pay and display meters which will charge motorists 20p for the first 30 minutes and then 20p for every 10 minutes up to a maximum of three hours.

Campaigners ‘G51 Free Parking Group’, who are against the plan, held a meeting on Wednesday which was attended by around 200 people, including Humza Yousaf, local Labour MSP Johann Lamont, SNP MP Chris Stephens and three Govan councillors – Labour’s James Adams and John Kane and the SNP’s Stephen Dornan.

Mr Yousaf produced a letter at the meeting which set out three options and urged politicians of all parties to sign it by noon today.

He said: “It’s clear that residents of G51 are quite rightly deeply upset and angry at the fact they are going to be punished by unfair parking charges.

“There is no point in politicians attempting to fight each other or pass the buck on this issue. What I’ve suggested as a way forward, where all politicians, regardless of political party, call on council leader Gordon Matheson to make the right decision and redraft the Traffic Regulation Order so that it takes into account G51’s proposals, or bring the TRO to full council so that councillors of all parties can vote on it, or he should hold a public inquiry and ensure that an independent Scottish Government reporter is appointed.”

Govan’s three Labour councillors have previously called for the plans to be referred to a Scottish Government reporter and people who attended Wednesday’s meeting appeared to back this.

Lisa Devlin of the G51 Free Parking Group said the meeting on Wednesday “went well with nearly 200 people attending”.

She added: “We asked all of the audience to raise their hands if they were in favour of it going to an independent hearing and everyone in the room raised their hands.”

A Glasgow City Council spokeswoman said: “It would be unusual for a council to refer itself to the reporter in this way. However the unprecedented scale of the development next to G51 means we may well have to do things differently.”

She added: “The statutory process is still ongoing. The statutory process will not be complete until a decision is made with the Traffic Regulation Order.”