Malcolm Fraser (architect)

He attended George Watson's College, going on to study architecture at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MA Hons, DipArch in 1985.

[14] Using this as a platform Fraser has campaigned about built environment issues in Edinburgh, including initiatives for Princes Street,[15][16] the Grassmarket[17] and the redevelopment of Boroughmuir High School.

[18] In 2002, Fraser was appointed as the inaugural Deputy-Chair of Architecture and Design Scotland – a non-departmental public body (or quango) which acts as the Scottish Government's advisor on the built environment.

He resigned in 2004 over the organisation's unwillingness to examine whether the UK Government's use of Public-Private Partnerships for public buildings such as schools represented value-for-money.

During his time as a columnist for the weekly architectural journal Building Design, in 2003, Fraser initiated[21] a Flat VAT campaign to standardise Value Added Tax across new build (currently 0%) and repair (then 17.5%) that was taken up by Richard Rodgers and Debra Shipley MP but rejected by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown MP.