THE Greens are taking a campaign to save one of Glasgow’s oldest pubs to the Scottish Parliament. 

Glasgow MSP Patrick Harvie lodged a motion at Holyrood for the Old College Bar on Thursday.

The pub is situated on the High Street in Glasgow city centre. 

This follows the decision of CAMRA, Britain’s biggest consumer organisation, to back the campaign to save the city boozer. 

The Scottish Parliament motion cited the importance of the Old College Bar as one of the last “working men’s pubs”.

A petition to save the bar was also launched earlier this month.

Patrick said: “Even in the application to build student flats, it was recognised that the building is within a conservation area.

“This is one part of a long running campaign to save the built heritage of High Street, which is one of the most historically significant streets in Glasgow”

The building in which the Old College Bar is located has been in place since the 1800s with foundations said to date back as far as the late 1500s.

Christy Mearns, Scottish Green Party candidate for Anderston and City and Yorkhill, said: “It is important to see this in the context of years of neglect and failure to carry out maintenance and repair work on High Street.

“We have to ensure that businesses and students are not priced out of the market or forced into properties that are not fit for purpose”