Aberdeen Voice has learned that the Scottish Information Commissioner has upheld Voice reporter Suzanne Kelly's Freedom of Information Request with regard to land and property sold by Aberdeen City Council to Stewart Milne and associated companies.
Less than a week has passed since Stewart Milne's appeal to the Supreme Court failed, the Scottish Information Commissioner has decided that the Council must provide Kelly with information on land transactions between Aberdeen City and Stewart Milne companies. The Supreme Court had been asked to review the details of a land purchase Milne Group made from Aberdeen City Council. The Supreme Court found that Milne must pay the City £1.7 million over the land deal. The cost of the legal action is at this point unknown.
Kelly had followed the case, and had heard from several sources that there may have been other deals regarding the property developer and the City.
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