Plans to turn the Old Royal High School in Edinburgh into a hotel have been scotched by ministers.
Urbanist Hotels and Rosewood Hotels wanted to build a “six-star” hotel by adding two prominent wings to the listed 200-year-old Georgian building, which sits on the flank of Calton Hill.
The ruling clears the way for the building to be converted into a new music school proposed by a rival bid backed by the Royal High School Preservation Trust run by St Mary’s music school, based in the west end of the city.
