CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » General Edinburgh

GERROFFMOILARND - Lord Hopetoun firm blocks public right of way

(5 posts)
  • Started 12 years ago by kaputnik
  • Latest reply from kaputnik

  1. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Lord Hopetoun firm blocks public right of way

    FURIOUS villagers have slammed an aristocrat after a 100-year old right of way was fenced off following a dispute with local developers.

    Houston Estates has put up fencing in Kirkliston to stop people using the thoroughfare linking Path Brae to Manse Road – forcing residents to take a huge detour.

    I made a comment on a thread about Dalmeny estate earlier that the former has a better reputation at allowing access than the Hopetoun estate.

    The above article would support this particular worldview.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. crowriver
    Member

    Presumably around here somewhere?

    http://goo.gl/maps/z2Ig3

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. cb
    Member

    Could be this path?: http://goo.gl/maps/WWkm9

    Posted 12 years ago #

  4. Dave
    Member

    To be fair, what would we expect them to do when a construction company starts illegally redeveloping their land?

    I'd close it off too under those circumstances (although I don't see why a style couldn't be provided for peds that would still "block" diggers).

    I suspect they've made a concious choice to try and put pressure on the construction outfit, who are now seen to be endangering residents through illegal development.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  5. kaputnik
    Moderator

    To be fair, what would we expect them to do when a construction company starts illegally redeveloping their land?

    Sounds like they were in agreement to do it - tarmac the existing right of way, that is, then backed out (or didn't cough up the money) and now both parties have fallen out.

    The response of fencing off the path and then digging it up benefits no parties and sounds a little bit like an act of nerr-nerr-nee-nerr-nerr on the part of Hopetoun. There a better ways to resolve land disputes than sending the diggers in. (Especially what is just a little bit of land of negligible value and is not in anyway interfering with or damaging the estate's business).

    Posted 12 years ago #

RSS feed for this topic

Reply

You must log in to post.


Video embedded using Easy Video Embed plugin