A judge has given permission for a traveller family to be evicted from a site earmarked as a new home for Scotland’s national art collections in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n
Lawyers for the Scottish government said the man, woman and 11 children, along with a number of “itinerant workers” had “no right or entitlement” to occupy the future site of The Art Works project in Granton.<\/p>\n
The family argued that being removed from the site without a “culturally appropriate” alternative being provided would breach their human rights.<\/p>\n
However, in a judgement issued at the Court of Session, Lady Tait ordered the family to leave the site immediately and said the government’s claim on the land was “legitimate”.<\/p>\n
Planning approval for The Art Works was granted by City of Edinburgh Council in October 2023.<\/p>\n
The \u00a3100m development, scheduled to open in 2030, will house a facility capable of storing 120,000 works from Scotland’s national collection when not on display in a conventional gallery, while allowing the public to view them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A judge has given permission for a traveller family to be evicted from a site earmarked as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-582083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}