Ł200m hotel plan 'will spoil capital's historic skyline'

The Scotsman

Edinburgh's most powerful heritage group is on a collision course with another developer over a multi-million-pound hotel scheme. The body responsible for protecting the capital's World Heritage Site is warning that classic views of the city will be ruined by a 16-storey Haymarket complex being planned by the Irish developer Tiger. The Edinburgh World Heritage (EWH) Trust has demanded that the plans for the scheme are scaled back, because of the impact it claims it will have on views all across the Unesco-designated area. Trust officials have already warned the council that the world heritage status is being put at risk by major new developments, such as Caltongate, the hotel and office development in the heart of the Old Town, and Quartermile, which has seen skyscrapers created on the site of the former royal infirmary. A leaf-shaped five-star hotel is the centrepiece of Tiger Developments' Ł200 million development, which will fill a gap site near Haymarket Station.

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