CONTROVERSIAL plans to build almost 100 flats in a city conservation area have been raised in the House of Commons.

Leeds based Expresso Property plans a £40million development on Park Quadrant in the West End on a £6.2m site owned by the city council.

But the scheme has resulted in nearly 200 objections insisting the land should be preserved for the benefit of the local community.

Alison Thewliss, the SNP MP for Glasgow Central has submitted an Early Day Motion in Westminister condemning the plan.

She said: “I have been contacted by a number of constituents concerned about the proposed Park Quadrant development which is totally unacceptable.

The Early Day Motion I have tabled in the House of Commons merely reflects public opinion in the local community and I very much hope the decision makers will heed this very strong local feeling and respond accordingly.”

Members of Park and Woodlands Heritage Trust claim its proposal for public gardens and a pavilion on the site has been hampered by delaying tactics by the council.

They say officials have refused to process their planning application because they have failed to complete an environmental assessment for the site.

But trust members say their application to access the site to carry out an assessment was refused by planning bosses.

A spokesman said: “The whole thing is nonsense because environmental assessments have already been carried out on behalf of Expresso Property.

“Officials are refusing to process our application because they claim to be lacking information which we know is already in their possession. They are also preventing our environmental team conducting new studies.

“That is just one of the suspect tactics being employed to ensure our application never sees the light of day.

“Officials have taken up to a week to respond to each and every email from us knowing there is a time limit on the application process.”

The city council said the trust could not get access to the site due to essential health and requirement safety measures but insisted that was not why its application was refused.

A spokesman said: “The application was invalid for a number of reasons. We wrote to the applicant to try and resolve these issues but they were not addressed.”