HISTORICAL FACTS: Reporter - The Untold Story

Anger as huge 544-bed pod hostel approved for posh Edinburgh street

RESIDENTS of a posh Edinburgh postcode have expressed anger after a 544-bed hostel was approved on their street.

The National (Scotland) · Jul 24

New York City Has a History of Public Bathroom Failures. Will This New Plan Flush Away More Tax Dollars?

Throne Labs won a $4 million contract to bring 17 new bathrooms to New York City.

Reason · Jun 17

Homer Nodded in the U.S. Reports

How the phrase ended up in an opinion after it had been omitted.

Reason · May 10, 2025

Paisley protesters eye up court battle as more than 600 homes planned for Dykebar

Bellway Homes, Cala Homes and Barratt Homes were formally granted permission for their proposed Thornly Park village by the Scottish Government Reporter.

Daily Record · Apr 10, 2023

East Lothian motocross track saved after council miss removal deadline by five days

Planners and objectors used social media posts and YouTube clips to try and prove the track was not completed in time to avoid the enforcement action but the Scottish Government Reporter ruled it was not 'firm evidence'

Edinburgh Live · Feb 10, 2023

Buyer emerges to save The Newry Reporter at eleventh hour

National World Publishing, which also owns The Belfast Newsletter and Derry Journal, has bought the 155-year old title

Birmingham Post · Jan 20, 2023

Falkirk 'squiggly' path saved as plan to build on green belt rejected

An appeal to the Scottish Government was dismissed as the reporter agreed with councillors that the Carronshore farmland was not the right site for new housing.

Daily Record · Jan 9, 2023

Housebuilders win battle over Midlothian school site but lose expenses claim

The bid to build 46 bungalows on the site at the former Wellington School sparked a local campaign against creating what objectors called an "isolated commuter desert" in the rural community, but it was eventually approved by Scottish Ministers

Edinburgh Live · Oct 28, 2022

West Lothian warning over new housing after rare victory against developers

A Scottish Government planning Reporter backed the council's refusal to build in open countryside near a nature reserve in Armadale, but underlying fault lines in legislation won't stop more attempts to build on open country

Edinburgh Live · Aug 24, 2022

Cornton caravan site appeal is rejected by Scot Gov Reporter

Dismissing the application. he concluded: ‘Balancing these factors together and in the round, I conclude that use of the site as a caravan park had, by the date of the application, been abandoned’.

Daily Record · Aug 11, 2022