City's new leader hits out at £300m project

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City's new leader hits out at £300m project

Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2007 / May 23

Ever since developers revealed controversial proposals to demolish part of Edinburgh's Royal Mile to make way for a £300 million project, campaigners have placed posters in shop windows in the Old Town showing dramatic "before and after" pictures of the buildings under threat. Now they have a champion in Jenny Dawe, the new Lib Dem leader of Edinburgh City Council, who yesterday described the new Caltongate development in the Canongate as "grotesque and hideous". Ms Dawe said designs drawn up by Malcolm Fraser, one of Scotland's leading architects, were completely out of keeping with the World Heritage Site. The proposed six-storey building which the developers Mountgrange want to build opposite the new council headquarters in Market Street would house shops, office space, a restaurant with a terraced cafe and a nightclub or bar.

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