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"Royal Botanics Gardens plans anger residents"
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Posted 12 years ago #
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The unseemly spat focuses on the Botanics’ proposal to build what has been described as “brutalist” polytunnels and glasshouses for its nursery.
They can describe them as anything you want, but they won't be building polytunnels and glasshouses out of concrete and they won't be brutalist.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Textbook case of nimbyism?
Posted 12 years ago # -
I know Morris, he is an artist, I would have thought he would have approved of some brutalist whatsmabob?
Posted 12 years ago # -
"They’ve offered to tart it up by putting a seeded roof on it but, to be honest, we don’t really care" is a telling quote.
I was listening to something (on R4 I think) a while back about wind farms and someone was dismissing objections as NIMBYism - but there was a good poitn made about the fact that labelling people as NIMBYs isn't necessarily fair because it immediately trivialises their concerns, which may well be legitimate, and which, if the objectors didn't live right next to a development, would be heard rather than labelled and dismissed.
Though, reading the article....
Posted 12 years ago # -
When I saw the title I half expected the intro to begin "Outraged plants..."
Posted 12 years ago # -
I object to enough stuff to be wary of labelling others nimby, but honestly, this case seems hard to justify.
Basically, they've had houses overlooking an empty field, which is going to be filled with buildings, and they're not happy.
I presume if they liked 'brutalist' buildings they would not be living in Inverleith?
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"... filled with buildings..."
Not only that, but turf-roofed buildings that won't really affect the content of the view to a great extent. Interesting that they wouldn't object if it was on 'lower ground' - that ground, presumably, abutting other properties.
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…they won't be building polytunnels and glasshouses out of concrete and they won't be brutalist.
Only if 'brutalist' means 'looks a teeny bit like Savacentre'.
Planning application 13/007223/FUL has some augmented eye-level views. The tallest structure is indeed about 20 feet in elevation, and no higher than the other matching buildings on site already.
Posted 12 years ago # -
We've lived next to the botanic gardens our whole lives and are frankly outraged that somebody wants to make some of the land we can see from our upstairs windows look like a working garden.
Yours,
Apoplectic of Inverleith.
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