Edinburgh - The Center of Attention for all the Wrong Reasons

The City of Edinburgh represents a picture of historic buildings and beautiful architecture, however it is due to these assets that has driven the city into the limelight of a shadowy affair.

During the past year it was brought to the attention of the press that so called Statutory Notices were at the center of fraud and corruption on the council's part.  Since then, nearly half the department in the property conservation department at the council have been suspended, albeit under 'precautionary' measures.

Members of this department were supposedly given bribes by contractors to make sure the work was allocated to them. On top of that, the contractors overcharged as well as in some cases provided such poor quality of work resulting in the works to be carried out again by another contractor.

For residents of the city of Edinburgh, they can't help but feel betrayed and dismayed at the whole situation; as the reason behind introducing statutory notices was to protect Edinburgh's precious architecture with due care and diligence on the council's part.

BBC1 Scotland screened a documentary detailing their own investigation and the amounts of money being exchanged over statutory notices is frightening.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0154z83/BBC_Scotland_Investigates_2011_Scotlands_Property_Scandal/

For anyone that is concerned about their own position regarding statutory notices from the past 6 years should contact the council whilst the police and Deloitte carry out their own investigations into the corruption claims.