Category Archives: Clearbell

The curse of Craighouse strikes again: Another company collapses

Posted on June 4, 2017 by andrew0r

Land Engineering Limited, a company working on the Craighouse development, has gone into adminstration, according to the Broughton Spurtle. More from the BBC here. There were 139 jobs lost, but the Craighouse project contract is said to have been acquired … Continue reading →

Posted in Clearbell, Finance, Mountgrange | 1 Comment

Object to the demolitions of parts of A Listed buildings at Craighouse: Deadline 3rd June.

Posted on May 16, 2016 by friendsofcraighouse

The Craighouse planning consent was supposed to save the listed buildings, but instead all that is being proposed right now is yet more demolitions. Yet again, we are being asked to object to the planning department to stop further destruction … Continue reading →

Posted in Clearbell, Mountgrange, Planning process, Sundial | 2 Comments

Caltongate, Angry Authors, Edinburgh World Heritage and that Missing Letter

Posted on March 18, 2014 by rosyb

You may remember that we reported on the situation at Caltongate recently. The controversial development – granted by the planning committee in January – is back in the news with a group of famous Scottish writers calling for it to … Continue reading →

Posted in Clearbell, Mountgrange, Planning process, Political process | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Who’s Been Meeting Whom? Lack of Transparency on Meetings between Mountgrange and Ministers

Posted on October 31, 2013 by rosyb

In June, we sent a Freedom of Information request to ask what meetings members of the Scottish Government had been having with the Craighouse Partnership and their lobbyists. We were interested to know how much the Scottish Government had been … Continue reading →

Posted in Clearbell, Mountgrange, Political process | Tagged , , | 10 Comments

Whatever Happened to the Missing Mountgrange Millions?

Posted on July 18, 2013 by rosyb

Mountgrange change their name to Clearbell as administrator continues to chase them for millions of pounds. Four and a half years after Mountgrange went under losing £60 million of Bank of Scotland’s money, the fight continues to try and recover … Continue reading →

Posted in Clearbell, Mountgrange | 12 Comments