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In addition, the plans support housing development on two sites at Maybury and Cammo, despite a campaign by locals who are fighting to preserve the green belt status of Cammo Fields.
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http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-to-build-9-new-schools-1-3925562
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It is understood the Capital will have to find space for as many as 5000 of more than 10,000 extra homes needed to meet the Scottish Government’s building targets set for 2024.
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Now the latest story includes -
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with plans for around 14,400 new homes over the next ten years.
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The Courier (@thecourieruk)
27/10/2015, 4:15 p.m.
Last greenfield site in Perth is targeted by Persimmon Homes for new development http://bit.ly/1LzNaQz
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Proposals lodged with the council earlier this week would see 773 houses constructed at the Edmonstone Estate in Little France, along with a primary school aimed at alleviating the pressure of rising school rolls in surrounding areas.
If the scheme gets the go-ahead, the developer Sheratan Ltd will buy back the land – which it sold to the council ten years ago – for £12m
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Balerno + south of ERI
If anything it's worse here in Musselburgh as this blog post from Jason Rose describes. Skip to the plan to see the greenbelt loss.
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WHEN the tram was first mooted it was the number of homes to be built on brownfield land in Leith, Newhaven and North Edinburgh that informed the business case. That reason still holds true when you look at the pressure on Edinburgh’s green belt but there are more good reasons for extending tram.
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http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/flawed-housing-plan-faces-legal-challenge-1-3950127
CONTROVERSIAL plans for major housing developments in East Lothian could be halted in a dramatic legal move.
East Lothian SNP MP George Kerevan said he is taking advice on seeking a judicial review of the local development plan (LDP) for the county, which is due to be unveiled by council chiefs today.
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East Lothian Council’s Labour-Tory coalition approved the local development plan (LDP) for the county at a meeting at Musselburgh’s Brunton Hall yesterday –despite SNP councillors staging a dramatic walk-out and pledging to have nothing to do with the scheme.
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http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/snp-fury-as-housing-plan-is-approved-1-3951262
Saved Goshen. That's good. But all the proposed development areas are served by the town centre Tesco superstore. The town centre is already gridlocked. The cycle path upgrade plan seems to be no more than a big symbol stuck on a map. This will just further discourage cycling and walking in one of the country's most polluted town centres. Don't get me started on driver behaviour.
And I thought the Musselburgh Bypass was designed to take all the traffic away...
I don't know how bad it was before the bypass but there's a lot of local traffic through the town. Sometimes crossing the racecourse road can take minutes there's so much speeding traffic. Which is a pity because any attempt to cycle off-road around the town has to cross that road.
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RESIDENTS have rallied against proposals for 40 new houses on their community green space.
Locals in Kirkliston have launched a campaign in opposition to Hopetoun Estates’ plan for Allison Park.
They claim the blueprint – which has been submitted to the city council for consideration in the Local Development Plan (LDP) – will sacrifice their only green space.
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Presume this counts as GB(?)
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Developers have lodged outline plans for an International Business Gateway on 90 acres of fields and scrubland next to Edinburgh Airport, stretching from the RBS headquarters at Gogarburn to the Royal Highland Showground at Ingliston.
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http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-airport-business-park-plans-lodged-1-3972165
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But campaigners fighting the proposal say it would eat up the last piece of green belt separating Edinburgh from Musselburgh and claim the land is unsuitable for development because it is “riddled” with old mineworkings.
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4: A complete moratorium on house building on the greenbelt in West Edinburgh in order to prevent a further increase in congestion levels on arterial routes through West Edinburgh.
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http://www.alexcolehamilton.org.uk/alex_launches_5_point_pollution_plan
New Barratt development at Burdiehouse -
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/my-templates/peacemaker/images/cycle%20footways.pptx
Planning application to build 1200 homes at Craigiehall:
Not just green belt building putting pressure on -
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SEVEN overcrowded primary schools face being expanded, redesigned or having their catchments changed – as new figures show the cost of dealing with cramped classrooms across the Capital is set to balloon to nearly £22 million.
Bruntsfield, Liberton, Newcraighall, St Margaret’s RC and Trinity primaries have all been included in the latest phase of the city’s rising rolls programme.
And it has emerged Stockbridge and Victoria primaries – where space-boosting work has already been carried out – have been lined up for fresh investment as teachers prepare for surging demand beyond 2017.
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Catchment changes would save the council a lot of money and make more sense than spending millions expanding schools in popular areas.
...but outrage those who've paid top dollar to move into the catchment area for Lord Snooty Academy only to discover they've just been re-zoned into Bash Street Community High School.
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The value of your investment may go down as well as up.
"Catchment changes would save the council a lot of money"
Obviously politically 'difficult'.
Perhaps needs to be just 'done' with a starting date in (say) 6 years.
Of course that would give plenty of time for objections and climbdowns...
That was quick
A change 6 years in the future would also be tricky as the demographics of the catchments would be hard to predict. Especially as it would give people time to move to the catchment area they want.
Aye, but the council will get their revenge in the longer term. "“Also given the pressures on Gillespie’s in future years, due to their rising school roll and other factors, we will also consult on arrangements for secondary Gaelic-medium education from August 2017."
We may well have a majority SNP council by then, so it will be up to the next administration to deal with this hornet's nest of sharp elbowed parents...
Pity the issue has been fudged for so long. Gillespie's currently operating at more than 100% capacity, as is Boroughmiur. Something has to be done to reduce overcrowding. There were proposals a few years ago by the council to move Gaelic medium secondary education wholesale to Tynecastle, which is operating well short of capacity. That certainly would call the bluff of all those who are apparently so dedicated to the Gaelic language. I can imagine this proposal may be resurrected....
Not exactly greenbelt, but
http://placemakr.org.uk/blog/cala-announce-plans-500-new-homes-opposite-ocean-terminal/1055/
Cala Homes has revealed early plans for around 450 – 500 homes as part of a wider residential led development proposal on a former industrial dockland site in Leith.
The plans dubbed ‘Waterfront Plaza,’ target a long-disused plot of land owned by Forth Ports, located opposite Ocean Terminal.
@fountainbridge, is this not the type of brownfield development that should in theory ease pressure on the greenbelt? Or will builders not stop until every available scrap is built on. There are houses in the water of leith at colinton and the large flood plain development at blinkbonny will get flooded. It is way down in the valley level with the riverbed.
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