ROOT AND BRANCH

摘要

I'm glad to see JK Rowling is doing her bit to stimulate the struggling Scottish construction industry. Last week the Harry Potter author won planning for two Hogwarts-style treehouses in the garden of her 17th-century mansion in Edinburgh's suburbs for her children David, nine and Kenzie, seven. The two-storey structures -complete with turrets, a rope bridge and an owl perch - will cost an estimated £250,000 for specialist treehouse builder Blue Forest to make. I suspect Rowling may have cast a Silencio spell -that's a silencing charm to the uninitiate - on the architect named on the planning application, Patience & Highmore, who declined to comment when contacted by Building.