SNP donor’s £650million planning application was approved after a meeting with Nicola Sturgeon she failed to declare.Building tycoon Sandy Adam’s Springfield Property Ltd gave £100,000 to the Nationalists between 2015 and 2016.In December 2019 the firm received permission to construct the 3000-home Durieshill village in Stirlingshire after it was rubber-stamped by Stirling Council.Senior Springfield staff lobbied the First Minister in Perth in January 2019 but there is no mention of the talks in her official diary.
And we can reveal several other appointments between Springfield and senior SNP ministers were also not recorded.The meetings have only come to light because Springfield fulfilled its obligation to declare them in Holyrood’s.
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