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CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes? http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes? en Thu, 21 May 2026 20:00:52 +0000 acsimpson on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-238081 Sat, 03 Dec 2016 22:47:16 +0000 acsimpson 238081@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ "Surely under Transport Scotland remit?" The A90 isn't a trunk road south of the FRB so it's a council bridge as far as I'm aware. Fountainbridge on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-238070 Sat, 03 Dec 2016 18:25:49 +0000 Fountainbridge 238070@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ So, Craigiehall announced as going to be sold. Main access to Craigiehall via Burnshot Flyover. Unfortunately the bridge isn't wide enough and has a give way to oncoming traffic kind of flow. "Urgent bridge inspection of Burnshot flyover" announced Burnshot flyover closed until further notice (no reason given) Seems aufy convenient...... Scottish Gov to fund new wider bridge or pay for major repairs? Local councillor telling CEC to hurry up and fix it. Surely under Transport Scotland remit? chdot on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-237601 Tue, 29 Nov 2016 11:22:26 +0000 chdot 237601@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ " Former army barracks – including Redford and Craigiehall – are also expected to be targeted following the UK government’s review of its defence estate. " <a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/60-000-new-homes-planned-for-lothians-in-city-deal-1-4303691" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/60-000-new-homes-planned-for-lothians-in-city-deal-1-4303691</a> crowriver on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-236011 Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:41:44 +0000 crowriver 236011@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ "But that hasn't really suppressed the Barnton / Cramond / Cammo property prices..." Indeed. Perfect location for air crew hopping onto flights at the nearby airport, I'd have thought. chdot on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235987 Wed, 09 Nov 2016 11:27:30 +0000 chdot 235987@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/entertainment/penicuik-residents-stunned-and-devastated-by-plans-to-close-barracks-1-4282712" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/entertainment/penicuik-residents-stunned-and-devastated-by-plans-to-close-barracks-1-4282712</a> kaputnik on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235984 Wed, 09 Nov 2016 11:16:10 +0000 kaputnik 235984@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Craigiehall is directly under the final mile or so of the Airport flight path and not a terribly pleasant place for luxury villas, I'd have thought. But that hasn't really suppressed the Barnton / Cramond / Cammo property prices... If Rosyth is closed what happens to the seven subs? Follow the MOD's original plans and just sink them in the outer Forth? We could say it's an artificial reef and try and get some diving tourism going on it. LivM on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235979 Wed, 09 Nov 2016 10:14:05 +0000 LivM 235979@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Craigiehall is directly under the final mile or so of the Airport flight path and not a terribly pleasant place for luxury villas, I'd have thought. steveo on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235978 Wed, 09 Nov 2016 09:57:14 +0000 steveo 235978@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ I suggest golf courses, appease the monster perhaps the fiery eye will look else where. I were right about that saddle on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235974 Wed, 09 Nov 2016 09:46:10 +0000 I were right about that saddle 235974@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Looks like we might be needing all the military bases we can muster. wee folding bike on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235950 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 19:31:39 +0000 wee folding bike 235950@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Bovington are re-organisiing their Tigers. They look fine without Ruth. <a href="http://www.tankmuseum.org/year-news/bovnews53673" rel="nofollow">http://www.tankmuseum.org/year-news/bovnews53673</a> If Rosyth is closed what happens to the seven subs? Jester on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235945 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 18:08:17 +0000 Jester 235945@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ That's about her limit! Three years in the TA* and she thinks she's a tactical genius! :) *I was in for 17 years and clearly am VASTLY more experienced... ;) kaputnik on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235930 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 15:37:36 +0000 kaputnik 235930@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Ruth Davidson sitting astride the gun barrel waving a can of Deet. I were right about that saddle on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235928 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 15:28:30 +0000 I were right about that saddle 235928@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ We've unfinished business in Panama to take care of. I like the idea of Challenger II tanks being dispatched to wreak revenge on the mosquitoes of Darien. kaputnik on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235927 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 15:24:33 +0000 kaputnik 235927@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ You'd have to hope that iScotland won't have foreign adventure as a priority in the early days. We've unfinished business in Panama to take care of. steveo on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235926 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 15:23:46 +0000 steveo 235926@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Worth remembering when your nearest neighbour is an aggressive nuclear armed state! Yeah, London better remember where they've parked the subs... I were right about that saddle on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235924 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 15:22:01 +0000 I were right about that saddle 235924@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Worth remembering that the UK's armed forces ae largely configured for attack rather than defence. Fast jets, aircraft carriers, gargantuan battle tanks and all the rest are for smashing your way into distant lands rather than fending off invaders. You'd have to hope that iScotland won't have foreign adventure as a priority in the early days. Jester on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235922 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 15:05:00 +0000 Jester 235922@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <blockquote> kaputnik Any idea of an independent Scotland simply taking over existing facilities in a well ordered and amicable transfer can be put to bed, as those facilities will have been sold off and replaced by housing. It makes it much easier to invade your neighbours if you close down all their military bases first! </blockquote> Exactly! One of the best reasons for Scotland remaining in NATO is that members countries are bound by treaty NOT to attack fellow members. Worth remembering when your nearest neighbour is an aggressive nuclear armed state! kaputnik on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235906 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 13:39:14 +0000 kaputnik 235906@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Any idea of an independent Scotland simply taking over existing facilities in a well ordered and amicable transfer can be put to bed, as those facilities will have been sold off and replaced by housing. It makes it much easier to invade your neighbours if you close down all their military bases first! crowriver on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235905 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 13:37:48 +0000 crowriver 235905@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Glencorse not scheduled to close for another sixteen years: IF it happens on schedule/at all. Scotland may well be independent by then... Redford, on the other hand, scheduled to close in 2022. That's still six years away: a lot could happen in that time. Craigiehall only has two years left. So we'll have to get used to the idea of a "desirable residential development" creating a lot more motor traffic on Burnshot Road than at present.....tipper lorry hell starting 2018, then speeding German executive saloon hell afterwards. Jester on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235884 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 12:18:12 +0000 Jester 235884@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Recent report make no mention of a new "super barracks". What we have here is something I've been warning of for some time: the asset stripping of Scotlands future defence capability. Any idea of an independent Scotland simply taking over existing facilities in a well ordered and amicable transfer can be put to bed, as those facilities will have been sold off and replaced by housing. Jester on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235882 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 12:14:41 +0000 Jester 235882@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Usually the painters arriving to spruce the place up is a sign of one of two things: a royal visit or imminent closure. kaputnik on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235879 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 11:57:33 +0000 kaputnik 235879@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ And Glencorse was recently largely rebuilt. Apparently "do it up then sell it off" is typical MOD practice. Arellcat on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235873 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 11:24:24 +0000 Arellcat 235873@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ I thought it was interesting that they've only recently finished building a new maximum security fence around Redford Barracks. kaputnik on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428&page=2#post-235869 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 10:58:55 +0000 kaputnik 235869@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Yes I think much of Craigiehall looks like a model 1960s middle class housing estate somewhere in the London commuter belt. Stickman on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428#post-235860 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 10:46:29 +0000 Stickman 235860@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ I knew someone who lived in the officers' housing at Craigiehall. It must have been a nice place to be based: the houses were big, all had large gardens and they were arranged around a village green type thing where sheep could graze. A developer will be able to cram two or three houses onto each existing plot as well as on all the green space. I were right about that saddle on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428#post-235859 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 10:44:46 +0000 I were right about that saddle 235859@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Presumably the density of accomodation is higher in a barracks than in an 'executive' housing scheme? Given the number of people who live in these types of houses who don't work, might this move not actually remove rush hour traffic? Marketing idea for the flats - you get a discount if you agree to fulfil the functions of the infantry previously stationed there if Scotland is ever attacked. kaputnik on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428#post-235857 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 10:34:53 +0000 kaputnik 235857@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Redford and Craigiehall to be developed into "exclusive", "aspirational" estates of 4-6 bedroom executive housing with room for 2.4 cars? Possible names Craiglockhart Heights and Cramond View? I doubt very much a housing association is going to get their hands on either site. PS on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428#post-235853 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 10:26:39 +0000 PS 235853@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ That'll be a huge residential development at Redford then, with a high risk of associated congestion. Time for the Council to put in segregated cycletracks all the way up Colinton Road... chdot on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428#post-235817 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 19:43:59 +0000 chdot 235817@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/glencorse-and-redford-army-barracks-to-close-under-government-s-defence-review-1-4280604" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/glencorse-and-redford-army-barracks-to-close-under-government-s-defence-review-1-4280604</a> chdot on "Army sites sell-off opportunity for cycle routes?" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3428#post-179258 Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:15:00 +0000 chdot 179258@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Back on again it seems - <a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/fears-for-future-of-redford-and-dreghorn-barracks-1-3672664" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/fears-for-future-of-redford-and-dreghorn-barracks-1-3672664</a>