Trees up to 200 years old are “laying like gravestones on the ground” at the Thornly Park campus after bulldozers moved into the Paisley site yesterday.
Miller Homes, which has planning permission to build 179 houses on the former University of the West of Scotland campus, instructed tree surgeons to start clearing the site on February 27.
A last-minute legal challenge from Save Paisley’s Green Space only delayed the felling by days when Renfrewshire Council said it was confident Miller Homes was acting according to planning permission granted by the Scottish Government Reporter.
