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Author Archives: rosyb
Letter – coming soon
Sorry for the delay in posting the letter and material considerations up. It is ready to put up but we are just waiting to double check about sending in comments after the general confusion caused by the deadline moving today … Continue reading
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Pictures: Part One (More to Come)
Ok so we’re looking at: 8 development sites all around the site East side of the lawn – houses on protected Open Space – new build development, gardens and roads A sprawling modern housing development across the carpark, green space, … Continue reading
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Motion for a Report to look at Community Ownership
On the 18th September there was a meeting at the City Chambers that included Councillors Andrew Burns and Gavin Corbett, various council officials in greenspace, parks and legal departments, representatives of the Craighouse Partnership, Common Ground Association and the Friends … Continue reading
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Trench Wars: Questions for Councillors
As we wrote yesterday the authoritative policy document SHEP (Scottish Historic Enviroment Policy) clearly states that both Listed Building Consent and Planning Permission are needed before work can commence (click to read more). This was also stated clearly on the … Continue reading
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Trench Wars: Developer should not have started development without Listed Building Consent
People in the local community have been challenging the fact that the developers had started work on the old consent without Listed Building Consent – which ran out in 2007. The planning consent for the Arts Faculty Building stated clearly … Continue reading
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Planning Article 3: Skyline Views Out from the Site
Continuing our series of planning articles – here is our second skyline article – after Views Into the Site and our Introduction to Planning Designations and Documents. (Visit our key issues section on the menu for the rest of this … Continue reading
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“High Fives” for Craighouse! Tell, blog, tweet, Facebook everyone you know craighouse-edinburgh-napier-mountgrange-development-info
We have had a number of indications that the application may go in in the next few weeks. We cannot know until or even if it will happen, but objections can be submitted by email, so if you are away, … Continue reading
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Holyrood Has Questions about Craighouse and Napier
Now, more on Craighouse from Holyrood, as reported in the Edinburgh Reporter yesterday. Here is MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Jim Eadie’s question about Napier and Craighouse and a transcript of the ensuing exchange in Scottish Parliament Question time as posted … Continue reading
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Update on the Consent for New University Facility, Woodland Removal and Carpark
The Edinburgh Reporter published an article yesterday. It reports on questions in Holyrood about Napier and Craighouse and also that The Craighouse Partnership have applied to amend the conditions of the Section 75 agreement (attached to the consent we reported … Continue reading
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Craighouse Partnership attempts to activate decade-old Consent. Friends call for a halt to process and proper public oversight.
At a meeting with local residents on the 26th June, representatives of The Craighouse Partnership showed pictures of the huge Creative Industries building applied for by Napier in 2001 and for which permission was approved in 2002, along with new … Continue reading
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Friends of Craighouse Grounds and Wood 