http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Work to fix 26 flood-prone parks will cost £1m" en Fri, 22 May 2026 06:53:03 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14494#post-182823 Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:20:14 +0000 Kim 182823@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Does the Meadows need "fixing", or should it former name, the Burgh Loch, inform management of its usage? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14494#post-182813 Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:42:35 +0000 wingpig 182813@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm waiting to see what happens when the Leith Links cricketball club start trying to play on a pitch crisscrossed with half-filled trenches. At least they're still visible rather than half-hidden by grass regrowth. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14494#post-182809 Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:29:25 +0000 acsimpson 182809@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Around £500,000 has already been spent on improving 12 green spaces including the Meadows, Inverleith Park and Leith Links.</p> <p>But work is needed at a further 14 sites – among them Harrison, Union and Braidburn Valley parks – leaving the city facing an additional bill of around £500,000 to clear the backlog.</em></p> <p>It wouldn't have taken a great deal of investigative journalism for the chipwriters to find out that it's only half a million pounds of work required. But then a meeelllion sounds much better in a headline. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14494#post-182803 Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:57:30 +0000 richardlmpearson 182803@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wish they'd put some drainage on the canal towpath, particularly past the bypass out to Ratho and also on the path from Newbridge to Queensferry </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14494#post-182802 Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:52:04 +0000 chdot 182802@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>A £1 MILLION price tag has been put on urgently needed drainage works at 26 flood-prone parks and sports pitches across the Capital.</p> <p>Around £500,000 has already been spent on improving 12 green spaces including the Meadows, Inverleith Park and Leith Links.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/work-to-fix-26-flood-prone-parks-will-cost-1m-1-3714219" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/work-to-fix-26-flood-prone-parks-will-cost-1m-1-3714219</a> </p>