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Published Date: 28 March 2009
A LEADING lawyer will be helping fight plans to create a huge new hotel next to Haymarket railway station.
John Campbell, QC, who led the probe into the Scottish Parliament building fiasco, has been hired by heritage campaigners trying to halt the 17-storey development at a public inquiry in May.

The £200 million project is planned by Irish developer Tiger, which says it will transform a neglected city centre site. It has hired another leading QC, Roy Martin, former dean of the Faculty of Advocates.

Moira Tasker, director of the Cockburn Association, one of the main objectors, said: "It's the height of the development that is the main concern for heritage groups."





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  • Last Updated: 28 March 2009 10:42 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Architecture
 
1

Duncan in Edinburgh,

28/03/2009 15:10:43
Bizarre news "story". John Campbell is effectively the Cockburn Association's lawyer - he has done most of their work in the past. Very nice chap, by the by.
2

Fifi la Bonbon,

28/03/2009 18:49:19
He won't be doing this for free, I suppose.
3

Fifi la Bonbon,

28/03/2009 18:50:40
Bloody good bloke, by all accounts. Good mates with Tim, what's-he-called, always wears a blazer and rugby top. Bloody nice bloke.
4

hubris,

30/03/2009 11:34:54
oh yah

really good bloke by the way

remember him belching at a recent meeting but he must have just had a rather good lunch....what?

 

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