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City's World Heritage Site status 'saved'

EDINBURGH'S World Heritage Site status appears to have been saved despite concerns about the controversial Caltongate development.

Inspectors from Unesco visited the Capital last week to investigate the planned demolition of listed buildings to make way for the 300m hotel, office, restaurant and housing scheme in the Old Town.

A final report is not expected until June next year, but Dr Mechtild Rossler, Unesco's European chief of cultural world heritage sites, indicated the plans to bulldoze the former Canongate School and part of the Old Sailors Ark building were not enough to endanger World Heritage Site status.

She said: "These are C-listed buildings and there are examples by the same architects and of the same period close by. I don't believe the world heritage committee likes the idea, but it's a very unusual situation."


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