Almost a year on after a fire broke out in George IV Bridge in Edinburgh businesses remain shut.
David Taylor said he cannot refurbish the Elephant House café until the building's owner makes sure it is structurally safe
Café owner David Taylor said no work had been carried out to repair the building and he was left in limbo.Mr Taylor, who has 12 years remaining on his lease at the property, said his insurance company had signed off £350,000 to renovate the café after the fire. The part of the property which housed the Elephant House café and the Patisserie Valerie next door was owned by the family-run Tonstate Group, which went into liquidation shortly after the fire last year.
Currently Mr Taylor has metal scaffolding holding up the ceiling of his café, which was put in as an emergency and temporary measure by City of Edinburgh Council. The Elephant House café was one of two used regularly by Rowling when she was writing the stories of the boy wizard in the mid-90s.
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