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For me, one of the most memorable pieces we’ve ever run in Scottish Field focused on the scandalous post-war attempts of Sir Patrick Abercrombie to run a motorway into the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town and to concrete over Princes Street and its gardens so that it could be turned into a car park. Although Abercrombie’s plan almost came to fruition, any sane person would now look at that and regard it as cultural and architectural vandalism; deeply misguided at best, disgusting at worst. We’ve lost an incredible amount of our
‘The Scottish Government, with an incredible and unerring accuracy, has shot itself in the foot once again’
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built heritage since the Second World War. Countless big houses that no-one could afford to run any longer have been lost forever, while you only have to look at
the images taken by Victorian photographer Erskine Beveridge, which show towns like Stirling as a beautiful medieval settlement, or Dundee as a grand, aesthetically stunning city, to realise how badly we have been let down by town planners over many years. If you thought such wilful desecration had come to an end, it appears you were wrong. I’m not referring
to the vexed issue of despoiling some of our most iconic landscapes with wind turbines, but to the decision to allow houses to be built so close to the Culloden battlefi eld that they will degrade an internationally important heritage site. Rather than learning from the controversy that accompanied their decision to call in Aberdeenshire Council’s rejection of Donald Trump’s opportunistic plans for Menie Estate, the Scottish Government, with an almost incredible and unerring accuracy, has shot itself in the foot once again by overturning Highland Council’s rejections of plans for 16 houses just 400 metres from the battlefi eld, in the teeth of opposition from the site’s ‘owners’ the National Trust of Scotland. Really, you couldn’t make it up...
Richard Bath, Editor
Contributors this month... RUTH HINKS
The award-winning Peebles-based chocolatier is feted throughout the world, and has helped turn chocolate-making from a cottage industry into an art form.
KIRSTY WARK The Newsnight journalist has just published her fi rst novel, The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle, and explains what it’s like to be on the receiving end of reviews.
GUY GRIEVE One of the best- known faces in the Scottish countryside, the writer, scallop- diver, explorer, foodie, campaigner and television presenter is our new columnist.
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