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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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Craighouse Planning Articles: Skyline, Views Into the Site

SKYLINE: Views into the Site ‘One of the seven groups of hills which give great distinctiveness to the city….part of the basic structure and character of the city.” The hills give legibility and identity to the city and to its … 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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Response to Letter to Stakeholders by The Craighouse Partnership

Yesterday, William Gray Muir sent a letter to local residents and other stakeholders. In it he accuses us of making a number of allegations in the post of the 8th June that we simply have not made. He implies we … Continue reading

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Buildings at Craighouse put on At Risk register within months of Consortium Ownership

Friends of Craighouse Call for Council to investigate and use powers to force £300 million fund to maintain historic buildings The Friends of Craighouse have written to the Council urging immediate investigation after they discovered that five buildings at Craighouse … Continue reading

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Full Feature Article in the Evening News today

Gina Davidson from the Evening News came out to see the site for herself and was blown away: ARTHUR’S Seat sits proudly against the blue of the May sky. Edinburgh Castle’s flags are a slight fluttering in the distance. To … Continue reading

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Past to Present: letter from Craighouse Psychiatrist; access, social history and humanity at Craighouse

Craighouse has a long history and we have recently received a fascinating letter from someone who worked at the hospital as a Psychiatrist in the 60s who lived on Craiglea Place. This letter is both fascinating in terms of the … Continue reading

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A Big Shout Out to our Local Shops and Businesses

Friends Of Craighouse are thrilled by the amount of support   from local businesses who are displaying our posters or acting as petition points. We would like to recognise this tremendous effort by publicly thanking them, so many many thanks go … Continue reading

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Napier Principal Dame Joan Stringer Issues Public Attack on the Friends

Two weeks ago we sent a letter to Dame Joan Stringer of Napier University outlining 8 pages of detailed factually-based researched questions about the sale of Craighouse campus and the exact involvement of the university in The Craighouse Partership’s proposals … Continue reading

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