"I favour Carrick Knowe"
You mean the golf course?
That would be better for a unified "Hub" - but there are politics involved...
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Cycling Hub - Hunter's Hall Park (Jack Kane Centre)
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Posted 8 years ago # -
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Councillor Richard Lewis, culture and sport leader, said: “This is about the fun aspect of cycling.
“It will be the first time we have a state-of-the-art facility that offers performance cycling and cycling as a leisure and fun activity.”
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Posted 8 years ago # -
@chdot Your photo: They've been doing that wheelies-on-motocross-bikes-across-the-playing-fields thing at Jack Kane/Hunter's Hall for over twenty years now.
They used to do it across our pitch while we were playing university intra-mural football of a Wednesday afternoon; usually away from the action, such as it was, but (no doubt wild) rumour had it one of them had once vroomed his way through the back of penalty area when a corner was being taken.
It probably counts as tradition now. It is the way of their people.
Posted 8 years ago # -
I count it a wasted ride along there if i don't see at least one motorbike-wheelieing...
Posted 8 years ago # -
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The reduced project is costed at £4.6m, including £1.2m for the velodrome, £800,000 for the 3G pitches and £1.9m for the Jack Kane centre.
A council spokeswoman said: “By taking a phased approach, work can now begin on an outdoor track which will encourage children and young people to learn how to cycle in a safe and fun environment.
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Posted 7 years ago # -
"will encourage children and young people to learn how to cycle in a safe and fun environment"
Looking forward to all the frothers who have been complaining about untrained cyclists now frothing about money being spent on a place where cyclists can be trained....
Posted 7 years ago # -
Since the Hunter's Hall Park cycling hub consultation hub portal is massively out of date, I've asked CEC to update it. I'm particularly keen to see how the plan looks post-consultation and post-BMX decision.
Posted 7 years ago # -
"I've asked CEC to update it"
Any update?
Posted 6 years ago # -
CEC said at the end of March that they were going to remove the three years-old consultation page, but they clearly haven't!
They did send me a copy of the Culture and Sport Committee paper (20 March 2017 - item 8.2) on the project. Lack of funding (not surprisingly) appeared to be the reason for the reduction in scope.
The only subsequent paper I can find is from the Finance and Resources Committee meeting on 23 March 2017, item 7.13. I would assume that the facility is currently in the design stage.
Posted 6 years ago # -
It's not an activity I have any real knowledge of but does the lack of use of the BMX track at Musselburgh indicate a lack of demand, in which case the unfortunate dimunition of the HH scheme would appear to be reasonable.
Do modern day riders just want to play about on their BMX bikes at skate park type venues rather than actually race the things? Or is there more to it than that.
Posted 6 years ago # -
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It is almost a year since councillors agreed to press on with the velodrome, a cycle speedway and synthetic pitches at Hunter’s Hall Park next to the Jack Kane Centre in Craigmillar. Plans for a BMX track were dropped after it failed to win Scottish Government funding.
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Posted 6 years ago # -
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#Scotland’s first #cycle circuit has opened in #Fife
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Posted 5 years ago # -
I don't fully understand what stage the development of a cycle Hub at Hunters Hall has got to it, there is a proposal in to Friday's Housing, Homelessness and Fair Work Committee to get £800k funding to build it.
The c.£2m Place Based Investment Fund has over £8m of requests is really about place making so it looks (to my eye) like this is a long shot for their funding.
Does anyone know more? Should there be more visible support for it?
Posted 2 years ago # -
“Does anyone know more? Should there be more visible support for it?”
Not been paying any attention over past few years.
Those on here with ERC connections may know more(?)
CEC let Meadowbank go (to Glasgow). Fife has a great facility (see post before last post). Hard to imagine CEC producing anything as useful.
Posted 2 years ago # -
We use the pump track there a fair bit but had thought the cycling tracks were dead as a project. I thought there was also a plan for a longer road cycling training track around the site.
Posted 2 years ago # -
It didn't get funded...
Posted 2 years ago # -
The decision to close the Meadowbank velodrome was very short-sighted. The other cycling tracks recently built in Scotland (Glasgow velodrome, Fife Cycle Park) were funded externally from central government sources, Sport Scotland, regeneration budgets, Lottery funds, etc. CEC are funding the new Meadowbank Sports Centre (nearly finished) from their own budgets - mostly set against future revenue from developing the surrounding land for housing. Bit of a stretch to see how the council can also pay for a cycle track in Craigmillar without some external source of funding.
Posted 2 years ago #
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