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"DIY store to be demolished for student flats" (and other developments)
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I can’t think of the church? But the lower Gilmore place student flats will be where the traffic wardens live?
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@gembo - yes - traffic wardens will have to flit.
@SRD - What’s the story with the bowed wall/bracing on the close/access under the tenement?
Statutory notice. Means access to back through to church can only be from canal though that's currently fenced off. Church currently used for storage. Could be a designer home @neddie but north facing / in the shadows. St Kentigern I think -excuse spelling.
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The church that is the next block West? St Kentigern is correct spelling Born in Edinburgh to the daughter of the King of the Lothians but his mother St Enoch was raped but refused to reveal the man. She was put in a coracle with the baby and cast adrift on the forth. Instead of being swept out to sea they ended up at Culross where St Serf looked after the boy who was to become Mungo and take civilization west to the Weegee.
St Petrer’s Place is where the ruined Kirk is?
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“north facing / in the shadows“
Definitely a real issue for many people.
Presumably pre-dates the tenements.
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St Kentigern’s Church in the Polwarth area of the city has been bricked up for a number of years and was in the news five years ago when police unearthed a cannabis farm at the site during a raid.
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The church, which was built in 1887, was designed by renowned Scottish architect John More Peddie, who was also responsible for The Caledonian Hotel in the city’s west end. In the past, the church has served as a garage, nursery and warehouse before falling into disrepair.
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https://www.scottishhousingnews.com/article/lar-gets-green-light-for-edinburgh-church-conversion
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St Kentigern's latest. - A large gate has now appeared in fence to allow vehicles in. Could be new route home for me - basement back garden of shop.
@chdot - not that old a kirk. I went on map library site and looked at the steady march of tenements in area and think it came after as population increased.
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I’d be prepared to forgive the shadows, if I get to commute by kayak.
In fact, I’d just make the whole place inaccessible, except by boat
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@neddie - it's quite tranquil as no traffic noise shielded by surrounding buildings with canal to north. Moorings all full though!
*** Latest St Kentigern news ***
Turns out that student flats are out and will be a bijou development with flats for sale. Exclusive dev with prices to exclude tho no doubt!
*** Was chatting to woman raking up back garden at shop. Dev held till pend access sorted.Posted 3 years ago # -
After the bike lane chicanes on Lanark Road there is a bigger road block (thread passim) that was a gas leak etc but is infact the demolition of the Skip hire/Rolls Royce car park next to the former Cross Keys pub. Just at the Ford of Slate.
Down to the river will be student flats. Then the former blue goose pub and up to the former car showroom probably student flats too.
One burning. Question when these flats go up and get inhabited by students Is where on earth will the students drink if all the pubs are turned into flats?
On a related matter there is a turf war in Banefield Stiudent complex the one that floats next to the canal near new boroughmuir.
Student dealers supplied by The Albanaians are fighting student dealers supplied by The Colonel. Allegedly.
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I can't work out where any of this is - apart from "somewhere near the canal" - can someone give an actual road name?
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gembo: canal / woL junction Slateford Rd A70
laidback: the wee old CoE church just off Viewforth on the south bank of the canal. behind the new mornings.
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The diversion heading west Fimm sends cars up to craiglockhart from the Bonnie Prince Charlie aqueduct heading west towards Inglis Green Road but you will be able to push a bike through is my bet. There is no diversion heading east just a queue that is not related to bike lanes.
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iirc Bill Brockie, formerly of the church on Dalry Rd where Spokes was based, was at one time supposed to be based there. possibly a youth mission? I have forgotten the details. But that would have been 70s, I think.
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SRD thank you.
So why are the "Gilmore Place Residents' Association" involved? That's nowhere near Gilmore Place... I know about the flats going in on the Blue Goose site and over the river from there, but I can't work out where this St Kentigern's church is.
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Gilmore park residents association is connected to the new development where the Birth resource centre was and the Judo centre etc. Lower Gilmore place.
If you stand in front of Laidback's shop, facing it. then move to the left just before the end wall of the tenement, you can see St Kentigern's through the close.
Or, if you go down viewforth, down the old stairs to canal on the right, and look south across the canal, you can see it. small brick (?) church.
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K = st Kentigern (K is next to the actual building on the map)
Students = Lower gilmore place flatsPosted 3 years ago # -
@fimm - just to add to SRD's description, here is a streetview link.
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Traffic wardens place to become student flats lower Gilmore place
St Kentigerns is in St Peter’s place one block along
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Aha. Thanks everybody.
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OSM as always has everything mapped: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/55.94065/-3.21237
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Where will the polis go? Just round and round in their panda cars? Or are they all at The Gyle now?
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"Consideration will also be given to the most appropriate locations for national policing resources to be of benefit to local communities, as well as across Scotland."
The takeover of Scotland by Stratchclyde Polis is almost complete. Farewell local policing, hello helicopters buzzing your house at 3am.
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excellent. now we can get that protected lane on the exceptionally wide Carrington Rd.
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@crowriver Helicopters? How 20th century. With an unfortunate tendency to crash land to the disconcert of all.
Perhaps one for the Spotted thread but while out on State Approved exercise I did spot a very large quadcopter drone hovering in a sinister fashion over Roseburn.
Black of course.
I don't know if it was a Polis drone or something else. But maybe a taste of things to come
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On St Kentigern
Couple of edits from maps showing how Viewforth was at edge of city in 1880.
St Peter's Place didn't have tenements to corner. Montpelier was still unbuilt.
By 1908 Polwarth Crescent was no longer one sided and the 'mission church' behind shop had been built. By then St Peter's Place had tenements right round corner. Older large houses must have just been demolished as could make more profit from higher density living.
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