When the Friends of Cathkin Park group was founded in 2020 to protect public access to their local green space, members envisaged some standard community meetings and flyering. No one thought things would go this far.
Yet four years later, the group were piling on an early Queen Street service to Edinburgh, on their way to support another Crosshill resident for his day in court. It was the latest escalation in a battle that started with some mild planning objections and has culminated with accusations of intimidation, negative PR blitzes, new legal frontiers broached and more than £30,000 of public money spent defending an influential footballing charity. And it all revolves around a fence. Well, three, really.
Charitable behaviour?
Taking his seat in Edinburgh’s Court of Session — Scotland’s supreme court for civil cases — on a warm Thursday in July 2024, 35 year-old Greg Brown was anxious, but mostly excited. The nervous small talk of his Scotrail journey earlier that morning was behind him. Despite the risks, he had quiet confidence in the arguments his lawyers were gearing up to make.
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