35. Mr. Ron Brown(Leith) asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what were the grounds for rejecting a public inquiry's decision that Bonnington mills should not be demolished.
§ Mr. Allan StewartAn application for listed building consent for the demolition of Bonnington mill and granary was the subject of a very full inquiry in 1978 following which permission to demolish was refused. A further similar application was notified to me in October 1982 and I decided against calling it in for my own decision. I considered that the planning authority had already given very full consideration to the application and that a further public local inquiry was unlikely to raise any new facts or arguments which would ensure the retention and future use of the buildings.