Author Archives: rosyb

Craighouse is a wonderful habitat for wildlife and an important wildlife corridor. At this time of year you need to be very careful walking at night due to the multitudes of frogs making their way to their ancentral pond on … Continue reading →

Well, another packed meeting took place on Thurs. It was brilliant to see so many people there (including the unfortunate table of diners who found themselves stuck in the middle of our meeting room at the start through a double-booking … Continue reading →

We were contacted by the Evening News about the possibility of The Fields in Trust‘s involvement with safeguarding a piece of land at Craighouse.  As we say in the article, whilst we welcome any means of protecting the site it … Continue reading →

The new target of 4k signatures has been reached and smashed! The petition now stands at the rather frighteningly exact: 4001 signatures!!! Nearly all of these have been gathered on the ground locally – mainly in Craiglockhart and Morningside. This … Continue reading →

Craighouse is an issue that will affect green space all over the city. It is a cross party issue, so we are delighted to have received the following statements of support from Local Councillors and we will be putting these … Continue reading →

The LA&P competition is now closed and we’re delighted to announce: WE HAVE A WINNER! Thanks so much for your thoughts and suggestions (and sorry we couldn’t reply to all personally.) But, thanks to some rigorous research from several of … Continue reading →

3540 signatures! Well, it is nice to be able to update the website with a new petition number. After Christmas, our total has smashed through the target of three and a half thousand and we’re now well on the way … Continue reading →

We smashed the 3000 target. Present total is: 3186 signatures! Wooo-hoooo! And we still have a bunch we are off to collect from people today. Thank you so much to all our volunteers and members. Keep up the good work … Continue reading →

The developers maintain that they have to build so much new-build to raise the enormous maintenance costs associated with the listed buildings. There are many problems with this argument and it is disputable whether it is even a valid one … Continue reading →