Owners of a "hellhole" hotel have been slammed over plans to "cram in" more residents despite concerns that conditions are already "inhumane".

The Queens Park Hotel, where several people have died from drug overdoses, has been granted permission to create 17 more rooms. Despite Glasgow City Council pledging to end the use of homeless hotels, the expansion will allow for the accommodation of 76 residents - a 24 per cent increase.

Linda McVean, whose son Frankie died after taking street Valium at the hotel in 2023, said that she was appalled at the hotel owners now upping the capacity. She told the Record : "When I walk past that place I can only think of Frankie and the conditions that he died in.

"After all that has been revealed about what goes on there, I'm sick to hear that the o

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