http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Pentland Film Studio (now at Dalkeith) en Thu, 21 May 2026 07:10:00 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384&page=2#post-361901 Sun, 10 Jul 2022 19:29:07 +0000 Rosie 361901@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A friend who is involved in the film industry told me that there is a growth of the industry in Scotland, and that Creative Scotland has been intelligently supportive. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384&page=2#post-361862 Thu, 07 Jul 2022 13:35:55 +0000 Frenchy 361862@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Is this a case of ‘every council must have one’ or a sign of growing interest in/demand for filming in Scotland? </em></p> <p>Or is this the same folk who wanted to build one at Dalkeith? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384&page=2#post-361861 Thu, 07 Jul 2022 13:25:10 +0000 chdot 361861@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Plans for the £25 million studio were approved at the council’s Development Management Committee today (July 6).</p> <p>Councillors granted permission for the building of 11,148 sqm of business, general industry and storage and distribution which will be used for film,studio, and stage developments.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/council/west-lothian-council-give-permission-for-new-bathgate-film-studio-costing-ps25-million-3758553" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/council/west-lothian-council-give-permission-for-new-bathgate-film-studio-costing-ps25-million-3758553</a></p> <p>Is this a case of ‘every council must have one’ or a sign of growing interest in/demand for filming in Scotland? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384&page=2#post-359628 Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:09:18 +0000 chdot 359628@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>The TV show, which is based off of Neil Gaiman’s 2005 fantasy novel of the same name, is filming at FirstStage Studios in Leith. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/whoopi-goldberg-spotted-at-edinburgh-restaurant-ahead-of-anansi-boys-filming-3649637" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/whoopi-goldberg-spotted-at-edinburgh-restaurant-ahead-of-anansi-boys-filming-3649637</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384&page=2#post-324267 Tue, 10 Mar 2020 21:25:45 +0000 Rosie 324267@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>New Zealand used to have very little film industry. If you had ambitions to be an animator or special effects person you had to leave the country and work in the USA or the UK or wherever. Now Peter Jackson has set up the Weta studios those young creatives stay. And no doubt attract international talent.</p> <p>It's not so drastic in Scotland where there's a good games industry in Dundee which presumably uses the same kind of skills as film animation, and of course Scottish talents didn't have to move as far as New Zealanders. Still, it is great that graduates from the Art Colleges can find work locally - and of course this will attract talents from other places. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384&page=2#post-324259 Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:33:45 +0000 gembo 324259@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Murdo from The Cateran works with `bob last now I believe </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384&page=2#post-324227 Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:02:15 +0000 I were right about that saddle 324227@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sounds good. Sylvain Chomet of Illusionist fame quit Edinburgh under a bit of a cloud if I remember correctly. Wanted to set up an animation 'centre of excellence' but British art graduates couldn't draw well enough and nobody would fund it? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384&page=2#post-324224 Tue, 10 Mar 2020 12:49:16 +0000 Rosie 324224@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bob Last has produced some good films like Sunset Song and The House of Mirth. This sounds like really good news for Leith and the city generally. </p> <p>The Illusionist is a gorgeous animation. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384&page=2#post-324217 Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:57:30 +0000 crowriver 324217@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bob Last! He brings impeccable Edinburgh film business credentials to this new studio. Should be A Good Thing for Leith. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384&page=2#post-324204 Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:09:57 +0000 chdot 324204@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/sir-sean-connerys-son-wins-race-run-leith-docks-film-studio-complex-2444750" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/sir-sean-connerys-son-wins-race-run-leith-docks-film-studio-complex-2444750</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-319115 Sun, 08 Dec 2019 20:34:32 +0000 Tulyar 319115@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If you want to see how bad such venues are when based on car parking try central Brum when the City Arena chucks out - been driven at on the footway by drivers wanting to by-pass queues.</p> <p>Likewise SEC/Hydro/Armadillo events - with such poor connection to trains &amp; bus routes. </p> <p>A massive transport debacle/disaster. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-318865 Tue, 03 Dec 2019 19:17:30 +0000 Snowy 318865@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Going by the satellite shot, that would be an awful lot of trees being cut down for this. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-318863 Tue, 03 Dec 2019 18:17:05 +0000 ejstubbs 318863@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Arellcat: Ah, gotcha. When it was first mentioned I thought that the proposal was intending to use the same land that was previously proposed for use by the film studio (less Jim's Farm, of course). In fact, though, the proposal doesn't put it on the main retail drag through Straiton - it doesn't even touch that derelict corner that the film studio proposal had earmarked for retail.</p> <p>@Frenchy: Yes, I think that's right - the road in the bottom left corner of the image posted by CycleAlex therefore being Pentland Road. In fact it looks as if the main public access to the venue would be via the relief road, making this proposal wholly dependent on it. IIRC the folks behind the film studio proposal were going to put money towards the relief road; it might appeal to Midlothian Council if they thought they could hold the developers of this proposal to ransom to fund a significant proportion of it in return for granting planning permission...</p> <p><em>(BTW, trawling quickly through the thread on the film studio proposal, I see that the St James centre developers <a href="https://www.scotsman.com/news-2-15012/st-james-developers-move-to-block-straiton-film-studio-1-3996981">objected to that as well</a> - on the grounds that extension of the retail park would "undermine the 'vitality and viability' of shops in Edinburgh city centre".)</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-318846 Tue, 03 Dec 2019 16:18:02 +0000 Arellcat 318846@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I saw a map online yesterday evening that indicated that the location is here.</em></p> <p>Yes. It's the site of the former Pentland Oil Works, and associated bing. The works ceased production in 1897 but didn't officially close until 1909. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-318841 Tue, 03 Dec 2019 15:41:51 +0000 davecykl 318841@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmmm, a shed in a desolate (and sometimes snow-bound) field in Midlothian with poor public transport (and definitely not very viable to cycle to)...</p> <p>...or an actual city based venue in redeveloped docklands with harbour/river views [1], tram and bus links (perhaps even a whole new branch to get there so that car access is virtually unnecessary (if you must travel by car from outwith Edinburgh, leave it at Ingliston park and ride)). </p> <p>No, the latter proposal would be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3Arena">Pointless</a> and would never work, would it, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/53.3506/-6.2387">Dublin</a>? (Sprinkle "world class", "international" and similar buzzword bingo, according to taste)</p> <p>[1] An opera house with waterside views? That'd never work, either. (Very unfortunate that they had to demolish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House#Construction_history">one of the city's tram depots</a> to do so, however.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-318824 Tue, 03 Dec 2019 13:48:03 +0000 LaidBack 318824@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Image shows the 8000 car parking spaces needed.<br /> Almost half the land used is doing nothing. </p> <p>So regressive and does nothing to shift the future to less car reliance. The canal zone was meant to be area where we could get some land used with public transport </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-318818 Tue, 03 Dec 2019 12:16:24 +0000 PS 318818@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Can't remember where, but I saw a map online yesterday evening that indicated that the location is <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/zciNB3tzMNqSEWX3A">here</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-318817 Tue, 03 Dec 2019 12:13:01 +0000 chdot 318817@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah yes -</p> <p>“</p> <p>Ponton, who was born and brought up on the Royal Mile and served 23 years in local government in the Capital </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/new-8000-seat-edinburgh-indoor-arena-planned-straiton-site-1329784" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/new-8000-seat-edinburgh-indoor-arena-planned-straiton-site-1329784</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-318816 Tue, 03 Dec 2019 12:09:37 +0000 chdot 318816@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“One wonders what the three people listed as being involved with it actually do”</p> <p>I’m assuming this is one of them -</p> <p><a href="https://www.scotsman.com/news-2-15012/tom-ponton-faces-standards-probe-after-attack-on-provost-1-1054464" rel="nofollow">https://www.scotsman.com/news-2-15012/tom-ponton-faces-standards-probe-after-attack-on-provost-1-1054464</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-318815 Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:52:50 +0000 Frenchy 318815@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I can't get the image to open on my phone, so I'm perhaps just going to add to confusion, but I think the road you mention will be the proposed "relief road". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-318814 Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:42:43 +0000 ejstubbs 318814@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><strong>@CycleAlex</strong>: I'm probably being thick, but I can't work out from that picture where the Straiton venue is proposed to be located. What's the road running up the left hand side of the picture - is it supposed to be the bypass? I can't get the road that loops through the bottom left to match up with anything obvious in the vicinity. Are they proposing to re-route and/or build new access roads?</p> <p>If you have link to the site where that image came from, I'd appreciate the opportunity for a closer look.</p> <p><em>(I note that the "UK based entertainment, leisure and sports venue consultancy" Lothian Leisure Developments Ltd is rather more honestly listed at <a href="https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SC578290">Companies House</a> as having "Development of building projects" as the nature of its business. It's noted on <a href="https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/company/SC578290-lothian-leisure-development-limited">Endole</a> as being dormant since it was listed in 2017. One wonders what the three people listed as being involved with it actually do, other than scheme up ways to make shedloads of cash by getting stuff that may or may not be needed built and walking away...)</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-318801 Mon, 02 Dec 2019 23:49:50 +0000 MediumDave 318801@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ironically those behind the Turd are challenging the Impact Centre concert hall round the back of Dundas House on the grounds that it might not be in keeping with the World Heritage Site.</p> <p><a href="https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/chipperfields-edinburgh-concert-hall-faces-late-legal-challenge/10043927.article" rel="nofollow">https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/chipperfields-edinburgh-concert-hall-faces-late-legal-challenge/10043927.article</a></p> <p>Presumably the Impact Centre (highbrow stuff) and the Straiton Arena (chariot races and gladiatorial combat?) are aiming at different markets. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-318798 Mon, 02 Dec 2019 23:24:37 +0000 Arellcat 318798@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I thought that The Turd was meant to be our hallowed big production kind of venue.</p> <p>I mean, good grief, even the planners in their most model-building, subterranean protomotorway car-centricism days of 1949 designed the St James Square redevelopment with a centrepiece concert hall. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-318793 Mon, 02 Dec 2019 21:48:09 +0000 edinburgh87 318793@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As a Loanheadian by birth (if that's a valid demonym) this is a dismal prospect and will probably seal the town's assimilation into Edinburgh. But progress etc etc... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-318792 Mon, 02 Dec 2019 21:38:10 +0000 CycleAlex 318792@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Straiton? Come onnnnnnnnn.</p> <p>Not convinced the arena isn't just a Trojan horse for the 'retail destination'. Wouldn't be shocked if it slowly disappears until it's just a car dominated out of town shopping centre.</p> <p>Plans: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/SVrOd4F.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/SVrOd4F.jpg</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-318790 Mon, 02 Dec 2019 21:18:18 +0000 gembo 318790@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Straiton now to have an 8000 seater arena. Mad place to build a concert hall. Everyone will have to drive there. That is a lot of babysitters/designated drivers. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-300584 Sat, 02 Feb 2019 13:52:15 +0000 crowriver 300584@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah it's almost as though there was an ideologically driven government which is enforcing austerity long beyond any justifiable timeframe (11 years and counting), which sees the championing of private business interests as infinitely more important than delivering local services, planning controls, etc. Or something like that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-300582 Sat, 02 Feb 2019 13:23:17 +0000 chdot 300582@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Of course it’s harder to refuse planning/add conditions when you need cash...</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/midlothian-council-still-faces-decimated-services-despite-extra-cash-1-4866480" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/midlothian-council-still-faces-decimated-services-despite-extra-cash-1-4866480</a></p> <p>(And developers know that.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-300560 Fri, 01 Feb 2019 19:10:43 +0000 amir 300560@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Very rubbish. Cycling and walking always the lowest priority despite the benefits and need for active transport. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19384#post-300556 Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:44:43 +0000 I were right about that saddle 300556@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mary Queen maybe an upmarket <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cKV4GM_eS3U/T3150K_5kbI/AAAAAAAAACc/9qmCs_sp1DM/s1600/20.jpg">Mary Doll?</a> </p>