I REFER to your article on this week’s Glasgow City Council meeting ("Locked-out residents on warpath as council backs Jordanhill homes", The Herald, November 22).

I note that Bailie Glenn Elder told residents who were denied access to witness democracy in action that their concerns over the development at the Jordanhill Campus would be dealt with "fairly and in an even-handed manner". At no stage since the University of Strathclyde opted to cash in on this prime 35-acre gem, featuring ancient woodland, ponds, a sunken garden, rare habitats and the B-listed David Stow Building, has the community of Jordanhill been dealt with in a way which resembles fairness or even-handedness. Rather, this has been a sorry saga of broken promises, bureaucratic bungling and finally the misrepresentation of the electorate by a planning committee whose arrogance and contempt appears to know no bounds.

These elected representatives not only saw fit to proceed with their deliberations over a highly contentious planning application with scores of residents locked out of the meeting but then chose to overlook the fact that the proposed development breaches the City Plan on several fronts, as pointed out in many of the 900 objections which were posted on the city council's planning portal. Bailie Elder and his committee showed similar disregard for the views of the three Ward 12 councillors who spoke against Cala's over-development of this valued site.

To cap it all, they delivered their lamentable verdict while the outcome of a judicial review into the proposed development is still awaited. This is truly staggering.

I fear for the future of Glasgow's built and environmental heritage with the current planning applications committee making such decisions.

William Dick,

Southbrae Drive, Glasgow.