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Edinburgh: a city under siege, all in the name of progress



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Published Date: 19 July 2008
New wave of ‘philistines’ poses a major threat to the capital’s historic skyline, claims DAVID BLACK
THOSE of us with long memories might just recall the early Seventies, when Edinburgh University’s firebrand student rector, a certain Gordon Brown, established “the rector’s working party on planning”.

The shared objective among enlightened citiz...



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  • Last Updated: 18 July 2008 8:48 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Buttress,

19/07/2008 00:27:48
Thnk you David Black. And let's name and shame - Mountgrange, Allan Murray.

Mike Wade in the Times this week names and shames a few others:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article4354058.ece


We need all to pick up our pens and write to UNESCO. It needs to visit now, before the Caltongate demolitions begin.

Pictures:

www.eh8.org.uk


2

Buttress,

19/07/2008 00:41:06
And - glad someone else agrees about the ghastliness of the gardens.

Less would have been more. It would have been cheaper, too.
3

Neil,

Glasgow 19/07/2008 11:21:03
"If a dozen of us – some old, some new – could each write a 2,000-word essay on the current shenanigans, couldn’t we set the tumbrels rolling, or at least encourage a reassessment of our current approach to planning and development?"

Probably - more's the pity. We already have more than enough government empowered busybodies making sure nothing new ever gets done in this country.
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Buttress,

19/07/2008 11:32:23
It's not 'this country' though is it - it's a wonderful, tiny part of it, a World Heritage Site. Far too fragile and precious to be raped by developers for greed, aided and abetted by architects with egos and large premises and staff to fund, PR firms with huge sums to spend and more vast sums to make out of it, and witless councillors who are so readily fooled by the bling factor.

Nothing new ever gets done? Don't be daft.


5

Buttress,

23/07/2008 10:06:10
Unesco:

http://whc.unesco.org/en/333/action=detail&order=1367

 

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