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"Hearts’ Tynecastle car park to be sold by council"
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Posted 11 years ago #
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The headline is a bit misleading.
It should say "council has managed to sell a vacant former school site that is costing it £80,000 a year to maintain".
I don't think it's the council's responsibility to provide free car parking to a private business. It is their responsibility to provide value for taxpayer money when it comes to surplus-to-requirements properties.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Poor players, Asked to car share and shock directors asked to leave the car. ...
Posted 11 years ago # -
Cooncil tried to sell the building to hearts in the Romanov days was going to become a hotel etc. on the far left of the picture you can see the grass pitch that the distillery used to allow the school to use for PE. To get there you had to go in to the stadium, under the stand and back out. However, the distillery declined to let hearts have use if the pitch which I always thought droll.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Maybe the distillery owner was a Hibee.
Posted 11 years ago # -
@crowriver, the hibeeness of the distillery owner was the only conclusion we could come to.
Now the jambos have Heriot watt so all is well
Posted 11 years ago # -
"Maybe the distillery owner was a Hibee"
Or maybe the distillery owner wanted paid for the use of facilities !?
Posted 11 years ago # -
ahh, don't turn CCE into one of those bitter, bitter football forums, or even into something akin to the een football story comments section ....
Posted 11 years ago # -
@barnton to town - I wasnt and wouldnt turn this forum into that, so please dont misunderstand my point.
My point is that, as near neighbours, perhaps the distillery owners knew how the old regime operated and would prefer (being business people) to be paid for the use of a service?
simple as that.
As kaputnik has correctly stated earlier, the council (our money?) was maintaining a car park at cost of £80K pa for a private company which (given it is now in admin) may or may not be able to pay the rent.
Its a no brainer to sell the land, unless you are the EEN editorial staff.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I live near Tynecastle. I cycled past yesterday evening and the match was still going on (extra time) and I realised that I'd never been down there when there was a match actually happening in 9 years of living there, it is quite nice to hear the crowd noise from the outside.
Anyway, the wee car park that the article says is required by the emergency services didn't seem to be that full, but I guess it gets more use for bigger matches. I wonder why they can't use the school car park? I can't imagine there'd be much overlap between school use and match use. Otherwise it is just going to be more people parking on the nearby streets, and none of us who live here can really complain that we didn't know that there's a football ground there when we moved in!
Posted 11 years ago #
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