http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Community canal improvement en Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:02:06 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3051#post-32307 Sat, 28 May 2011 09:25:49 +0000 gembo 32307@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If buildings are put up without car parking - offices or houses - this is a way of generating cash for the council as people (even apparently students) need cars and will pay for car parking. HM Revenue and Customs also now prevent staff claiming parking costs for parking at their work. </p> <p>Of course I would advocate less dense living (as an old git, I find many students dense enough as it is, forgetting how dense I was as a student, but I learn Mr Fawlty). I vote for mandatory car parking being exchanged for mandatory allotments and chicken coops.</p> <p>Alternatively, not providing car parking might nudge people away from cars given price of petrol it can be cheaper to go by public transport, cycle or walk. These three forms of transport are practical in Edinburgh in a way they aren't in big cities or rural places. So putting student accommodation on the inner city brewery site is not all bad and adding gardens would be an improvement. {Given the shocking rents the studes have to pay - I say give em gardens to grow their herbs and plants in, it is all home grown these days}</p> <p>I am off to Calders Crescent to check out that community garden </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3051#post-32250 Fri, 27 May 2011 11:37:06 +0000 kaputnik 32250@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And that you can charge shocking rents for tiny little boxes during term time. And then charge even more shocking rents for tiny little boxes during festival time.</p> <p>I'd never really thought about the car thing, but it figures. Why build in car parking spaces when students can park their bangers on neighbouring streets with their ample parking... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3051#post-32246 Fri, 27 May 2011 11:21:55 +0000 SRD 32246@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>No! I think we should claim it first. </p> <p>Seriously though, you know why they put student flats in places like this? because they can make them denser than if they were 'proper' flats because there's no requirement for (car) parking. hence all the bike racks in the drawings. 'Real' people need car parking. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3051#post-32245 Fri, 27 May 2011 11:19:35 +0000 kaputnik 32245@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think that the big buildings that are now gone will imminently be replaced by even bigger ones full of students. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3051#post-32244 Fri, 27 May 2011 11:17:41 +0000 SRD 32244@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>a bit of topsoil will sort it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3051#post-32241 Fri, 27 May 2011 11:10:54 +0000 miggy_magic 32241@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>SRD, Isn't that stretch all grit? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3051#post-32239 Fri, 27 May 2011 10:56:49 +0000 SRD 32239@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Now this is a good idea. There's a bit we could do this to near us - between the Lift bridge and Viewforth - anyone got any plants we could put in? There's lots of light now that those big buildings are gone and it would make a great community garden/allotments/park. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3051#post-32234 Fri, 27 May 2011 10:40:29 +0000 chdot 32234@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"A NEW community garden at Calders Crescent in Wester Hailes has transformed a derelict piece of land and is attracting more people to the Union Canal and improving the lives of people living in the area."</p> <p><a href="http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Garden-work-helps-derelict-site.6775261.jp" rel="nofollow">http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Garden-work-helps-derelict-site.6775261.jp</a> </p>