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Parliament ponders Royal High flit
The building has been labelled "a nationalist shibboleth" |
The Scottish Parliament is considering moving temporarily to the former Royal High School building in Edinburgh next May.
The parliament will have to vacate its current stop-gap home on the Mound when the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland convenes.
The proposed move to the former school building on Calton Hill - originally earmarked to house the parliament - will last three weeks and cost an estimated £200,000.
The last Labour government converted the school into a debating chamber for a Scottish assembly, but it remained empty when the referendum of 1979 was defeated.
The former Strathclyde council building is in the frame |
While it is being built, MSPs have been meeting on the Mound.
They will have to make way for the General Assembly and the parliament's business managers have two options.
The favourite is the former Strathclyde Regional Council headquarters in Glasgow, a move which would fulfill the pledge to take the parliament's business around the country.
However, a transfer to the former Royal High School would be cheaper and closer to MSPs' offices.
The building is said to have been described by the Labour MP Brian Wilson as "a nationalist shibboleth", a reference to the SNP's aspirations during the 1979 referendum.
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