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"Pressure on green belt as 10,000 homes to be built"
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Not green belt as such -
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The completed developments will represent a 27 per cent increase in the total number of homes in the village which local campaign Gullane Opposes Over Development (GOOD) say is the equivalent in Edinburgh “of five areas the size and population of Leith being suddenly added to the city with no public transport links connecting it”.
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1000 waterfront homes could be built if loan deal goes ahead
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The £76 million loan will be repaid over 25 years and unlike a government grant, means the money will return to the public purse. It will contribute to 36 percent of the development cost with an injection of 64 percent from private investment.
So, £76M is 36%, so the full development cost is £211M which is £211k per house built. Surely houses should cost less to buy than private developers can already build and sell (at profit) them for.
Port of Leith Housing Association's press releases for their 5 year plan suggests that they are spending about £104k per new house built.
Am I missing something?
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There will be £20m for roads in West Edinburgh to help deal with the congestion issues around large new housing developments.
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http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/1bn-edinburgh-city-deal-finally-agreed-1-4508790
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The last bit of green belt between Currie and Balerno has gone. This was a strip of land the ran north south parallel to the spur of the Balerno train line. (The spur that ran under the A70). You can see the Forth bridges at that point but soon you will see the CALA houses. I'd say the greenbelt has shifted along that railway spur to ravelrig hill but CALA HAVE OPTIONS ON THAT FIELD TOO. So now I would estimate the green belt is now out the A70 beyond the sign for Balerno. There is no pavement by that point, there is a massive private development where what looks like a few young guys have cleared a site, planted trees and put up fences. Has taken them a while with one digger but this will presumably become housing.(just possible to cross the Lanark road and find an overgrown pavement through various other housing developments if one wanted to walk), west of there the land is boggy and has wee pipes sticking out of the ground, possibly related to the quarry on the dalmahoy road side. I don't think CALA will want it.
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There will be a £50 million development fund to accelerate private housebuilding in areas like the Granton waterfront and £15m to set up a new Edinburgh homes company, which will lever in up to £250m borrowing to expand housebuilding in the Capital.
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She also used the article to outline areas where reform was needed, including the need to build housing on greenbelt land
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http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/ruth-davidson-calls-for-conservatism-reboot-1-4512031
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Ruth CALA Davidson
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Ms Davidson's article is worth a read, if only for sight of the swirling confusion in the mind of our next First Minister;
We will need to be particularly bold when we see restrictive practices....
...Closing loopholes, increasing enforcement and overhauling regulatory frameworks can go some way to addressing the creeping cronyism...
She appears to be arguing for a system close to Chinese Communism, but finishes with;
Time to press Ctrl + Alt + Del.
apparently wishing to lock the computer, switch user or, more likely, launch the task manager, with us doing tasks and her managing.
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"She appears to be arguing for a system close to Chinese Communism"
Not sure about, but the extent to which RD and KD seem to be at odds with their Westminster equivalents ought to suggest they would be more interested in independence (or perhaps Independence)...
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Not sure about
Me neither, obvs because it is so badly written. Seems to be arguing for state-managed markets to benefit the workers. Much of of the advance from poverty she alludes to has occurred in China under a form of semi-slave capitalism with a technocratic cadre in charge.
Also, written from an ahistorical perspective in which 'Britain' never profited from its own semi-slave capitalist empire run by a technocratic cadre.
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http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/ruth-davidson-calls-for-conservatism-reboot-1-4512031
Is this the article in which she proclaims Henry Ford is the father of mass production? Marc Brunel might be closer to the mark, 100 years before Ford.
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His pulley block making machine? Yes, good call.
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Which party drove the destruction of our manufacturing industry and championed off-shoring? Which party introduced the right-to-buy and prevented local authorities from re-investing proceeds in new house building? Which party sold-off our national infrastructure to foreign governments and vulture capitalists? Which party has systematically attacked the NHS and social security systems - the real reason for improved health outcomes and longer life for many less well-off people?
Why - the Ruth Davidson party!
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"Why - the Ruth Davidson party!"
No no - it was the pre-Ruth Davidson party!
She is clearly trying to take over the remnants as she doesn't have the confidence to start her own (Scottish based/only??) Party.
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chdot - I know what you mean, but I wouldn't let them off so lightly. The Scottish Tories voted against the abolition of the right to buy in Scotland in 2014. The Scottish Tories have supported all UK Government social security changes since 2010. The Scottish Tories announced earlier this year that they want to develop two new nuclear power plants in Scotland (no word on funding - but the Chinese are the only ones interested in this work). All this (and much more) under Ruth Davidson's watch.
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I'm not really letting anyone off.
It's all diversionary tactics.
'We don't want anyone to realise we don't have much influence in the way the world works or have answers/solutions to problems'.
(Applies to all political parties.)
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On Ruth's watch the party (or parts of it) has also been channelling large amounts of funds from murky sources towards the DUP to campaign for Brexit (which Ruth actively campaigned against), has had a very questionable increase in opaque donations from otherwise defunct parochial Conservative Associations to fund their leafletbombing campaigns at recent elections. Oh and happily stood candidates from the Orange Order. And candidates with absolutely no intention of taking up their seats.
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Ms Davidson's article for the tl:dr;
'I've been on wikipedia and some carefully selected history has happened with no political context. Something must be done!'
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But planning officials are urging councillors to throw out the application for the green belt land fearing the impact it will have on plans to turn the fields close to Craigmillar Castle into a vast woodland and country park.
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In a report penned in December, he concluded that “a development of this scale ... would seriously erode the openness of the green belt between Dunblane and Bridge of Allan, and have a significant negative impact on its core role and function to maintain the separate and distinct identities of these towns and to protect their landscape settings”.
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The SNP are very keen on Scotland being built on. Tennis ok. Golf? I judge (having a back story very linked to golf) that we have enough golf courses.
If you are ever out the Lang Whang just shy of hagrid's house you will see the sign for Kersewell the golf resort of the 21st century. Never built. Just the houses there in the middle of nowhere.
Would be a pretty boggy course if ever built. Which it won't be.
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I have often wondered about that development but never once I have returned home.
Looks ambitious
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Developers failed to persuade councillors to grant approval for 750 new homes on greenbelt land behind the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh despite plans to include a park “twice the size of the Meadows”.
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They dangle the park like a carrot. Like there's any other option for the flood plains for the burns behind the hospital.
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Not quite greenbelt, more finishing off the bit to the South of Edinburgh Park.
http://www.parabola.com/portfolio/edinburgh-park/
Could link in well to the WEATN
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How many car parking spaces will be allocated to each office?
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