http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: 1992 views of Edinburgh Park en Fri, 22 May 2026 08:54:59 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13822#post-170479 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:54:38 +0000 steveo 170479@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah the first "I remember when this was nowt but fields" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13822#post-170472 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:14:37 +0000 gembo 170472@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes very romantic</p> <p>I used to jog around the empty fields of edinburgh park and South Gyle in 1992 </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13822#post-170457 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:43:42 +0000 Stickman 170457@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>....that was where we first met, fighting over the chips if I remember rightly</em></p> <p>Possibly the most Scottish way of meeting ever. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13822#post-170453 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:22:07 +0000 I were right about that saddle 170453@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I went to an art exhibition with Madame IWRATS in what used to be the canteen of Tanfield once. </p> <p>Nice space for sculpture, but it was odd because that was where we first met, fighting over the chips if I remember rightly. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13822#post-170451 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:07:40 +0000 kaputnik 170451@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I miss the fighter plane on the lawn.</em></p> <p>It used to be known as "Lightning Roundabout".</p> <p>much better name than "South Gyle Access". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13822#post-170450 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:03:54 +0000 steveo 170450@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My previous office on the site of Fat Sam's and the Ark was a little surreal when I first started. My current one on the site of the old Ferranti building is also a little odd, I miss the fighter plane on the lawn. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13822#post-170449 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:46:20 +0000 I were right about that saddle 170449@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"It did. This is Standard Life House..."</p> <p>Oh, I know the nature of Standard Life House! Thought they were suggesting there was a plan to build at Edinburgh Park. Very confusing.</p> <p>As is drinking in Le Monde, when I've been to meetings in the same room years before.. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13822#post-170448 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:41:48 +0000 PS 170448@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Both stations are cold, bleak places to wait for a train, but Edinburgh Park feels like it is sitting on the edge of the Siberian wastes when the wind gets up. </em></p> <p>I suspect a lot of this is because there's no there there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13822#post-170447 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:35:34 +0000 kaputnik 170447@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Both Edinburgh Park and South Gyle stations seem to be deliberately going out of their way to make access to Edinburgh Park difficult / inconvenient.</p> <p>From South Gyle you cut along narrow pavements before doglegging around a giant roundabout using some inconsiderately placed crossings, finding yourself with no crossings and no option but to step infront of 40mph+ traffic as you head closer to the development.</p> <p>From Edinburgh Park, you either walk a variety of right-angled dog legs where the pavement is on the wrong side of the road, or take an overly twisting diversion down a badly lit lane where the path then disappears for a short distance as you squeeze around an access barrier.</p> <p>Both stations are cold, bleak places to wait for a train, but Edinburgh Park feels like it is sitting on the edge of the Siberian wastes when the wind gets up. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13822#post-170446 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:35:25 +0000 PS 170446@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Reading it again, it seems a very confused article. Has it merged the "new conference district" at the Exchange with Edinburgh Park? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13822#post-170445 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:32:37 +0000 PS 170445@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"Standard Life, which has premises all over Edinburgh, has opted for a 250,000 sq ft new building near the site for a new conference centre."</p> <p>Well that never happened. </em></p> <p>It did. This is Standard Life House on Lothian Road. Built in the mid-1990s, I think.</p> <p><em>"The New Town was laid out by James Craig in 1766, following the design of the 17th-century French town of Richelieu."</em></p> <p>I did not know that. Nice town, Richelieu. Just a shame the chateau got destroyed in the Revolution. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13822#post-170443 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:27:29 +0000 neddie 170443@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I like this bit...</p> <p><em>Where Olympia and York opted to build first at Canary Wharf, find customers later, and worry about infrastructure later still, Edinburgh Park is doing things the other way round. The South Gyle site is near the city bypass, a possible extension of the M8 motorway, a railway line into the city centre, and an airport only five minutes' drive away.</em></p> <p>The fanciful 5 min. drive to the airport is more like 40 mins at rush hour. It could take you 30mins just to get the 1/4 mile out of Edinburgh Pk. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13822#post-170442 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:23:48 +0000 kaputnik 170442@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>It is potentially disastrous,' said Oliver Barratt, secretary of the Cockburn Association</em></p> <p>I think they're still recycling that quote from Cockburn Association for any planning application in Edinburgh.</p> <p><em>The Royal Bank of Scotland, which owned and leased buildings all over Edinburgh city centre, has made good its own escape. It now has only the Dundas Mansion in St Andrew's Square, a building which is kept to maintain the bank's public profile.</em></p> <p>That's not very right. Although RBS moved out of a number of properties on St. Andrew Square, it still has a significant presence at 24, 35 and 36, and also on Dundas Street.</p> <p>About 50% of Edinburgh Park is still muddy fields, 22 years later. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13822#post-170440 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:16:21 +0000 I were right about that saddle 170440@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Standard Life, which has premises all over Edinburgh, has opted for a 250,000 sq ft new building near the site for a new conference centre."</p> <p>Well that never happened. Must have been the idea that preceeded the Tanfield pleasure domes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13822#post-170439 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:08:19 +0000 Nelly 170439@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"...probable fall in house prices as firms desert the centre".</p> <p>Predictions, eh?</p> <p>I am sitting in EdinPark right now - I always preferred it in St Andrew Square to be honest (noted that the Indy called it St Andrew's twice in that article) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13822#post-170437 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:55:27 +0000 chdot 170437@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/edinburgh-moves-out-1558091.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/edinburgh-moves-out-1558091.html</a> </p>