http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Royal Botanics Gardens plans anger residents" en Fri, 22 May 2026 04:32:42 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10629#post-116694 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 16:27:48 +0000 kaputnik 116694@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We've lived next to the botanic gardens our whole lives and are frankly outraged that somebody wants to make some of the land we can see from our upstairs windows look like a working garden.</p> <p>Yours,</p> <p>Apoplectic of Inverleith. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10629#post-116663 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:46:16 +0000 Arellcat 116663@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>…they won't be building polytunnels and glasshouses out of concrete and they won't be brutalist.</em></p> <p>Only if 'brutalist' means 'looks a teeny bit like Savacentre'.</p> <p>Planning application <a href="https://citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk/idoxpa-web/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&amp;keyVal=MJJDJWEWLO000">13/007223/FUL</a> has some augmented eye-level views. The tallest structure is indeed about 20 feet in elevation, and no higher than the other matching buildings on site already. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10629#post-116659 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:27:11 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 116659@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"... filled with buildings..."</p> <p>Not only that, but turf-roofed buildings that won't really affect the content of the view to a great extent. Interesting that they wouldn't object if it was on 'lower ground' - that ground, presumably, abutting other properties. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10629#post-116657 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:24:50 +0000 SRD 116657@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I object to enough stuff to be wary of labelling others nimby, but honestly, this case seems hard to justify. </p> <p>Basically, they've had houses overlooking an empty field, which is going to be filled with buildings, and they're not happy. </p> <p>I presume if they liked 'brutalist' buildings they would not be living in Inverleith? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10629#post-116656 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:18:41 +0000 Dave 116656@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When I saw the title I half expected the intro to begin "Outraged plants..." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10629#post-116653 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:16:05 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 116653@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>They’ve offered to tart it up by putting a seeded roof on it but, to be honest, we don’t really care</em>" is a telling quote.</p> <p>I was listening to something (on R4 I think) a while back about wind farms and someone was dismissing objections as NIMBYism - but there was a good poitn made about the fact that labelling people as NIMBYs isn't necessarily fair because it immediately trivialises their concerns, which may well be legitimate, and which, if the objectors didn't live right next to a development, would be heard rather than labelled and dismissed.</p> <p>Though, reading the article.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10629#post-116651 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 12:59:25 +0000 Baldcyclist 116651@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I know Morris, he is an artist, I would have thought he would have approved of some brutalist whatsmabob? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10629#post-116649 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 12:42:30 +0000 SRD 116649@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Textbook case of nimbyism? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10629#post-116648 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 12:34:14 +0000 kaputnik 116648@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>The unseemly spat focuses on the Botanics’ proposal to build what has been described as “brutalist” polytunnels and glasshouses for its nursery. </em></p> <p>They can describe them as anything you want, but they won't be building polytunnels and glasshouses out of concrete and they won't be brutalist. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10629#post-116640 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 12:15:38 +0000 chdot 116640@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/latest-news/royal-botanics-gardens-plans-anger-residents-1-2987018" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/latest-news/royal-botanics-gardens-plans-anger-residents-1-2987018</a> </p>