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"Luxury hotel planned for Old Royal High School" (or music school?)
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Posted 4 years ago #
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Thank you for the music, the songs I’m singing thanks for all the joy your bringing who can live without it I ask in all honesty, what would life be without Councillor Steve cardownie?
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Earwormin'.
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A good friend of mine is closely connected to the music school bid. It is fully funded, has planning permission and is good to go.
I would say that Scot Gov should take ownership of the school as a national institution 'Scotch Conservatoire' style and the council should suggest the hotel to be built in Gorebridge. Tourists can take the bus into town.
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@IWRATS - that's a very sound (ho ho) idea and a proper use of a handsome building in a commanding position, rather than yet another vulgar hotel. You want something grand and monumental. Also, nice to get some life into that dead area. Also, Regent Road should have proper cycle lanes.
I used to work in one of the outbuildings, in an obscure branch of the Crown Office.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Just asking.
Is the building still wholly owned by CEC?
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Dunno. I'll ask.
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Ta
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It’s unclear why the council would want its property to be used to assist the music school when it has one of its own at Broughton High, but in the last three years it hasn’t shown much enthusiasm for the visitor economy either.
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Posted 4 years ago # -
Be worth a week in the penthouse suite of the five star hotel that article if it was remunerated which it obviously isn't.
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Council want shot of albatross. They would rather get money for it
But
Why would anyone in their right mind want another hotel in Edinburgh? We have hundreds.
We already have two music schools, Broughton and St Mary’s so this is not a third
Whereas it is another excess hotel
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St Mary's also national intake with a boarding element. Should become the Scotch Conservatoire?
We need music and musicians. Less so tourists.
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Yes, why would a city that is genuinely world-renowned for education and its arts festival want a music school in such a prominent site?
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EEN should give right of reply to music school from the hoteliers friend John Making it up McLellan
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@gembo
If only a prominent player on the music school team knew a writer?
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@IWRaTs I love it when a plan comes together. How many words they giving you?
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Me?
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Well you are eligible to live at Hawthornden Retreat above the Esk, once Covid clears up. Innit.
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Sounds great.
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...the council has decided against going straight into a new deal with the Royal High School Preservation Trust, which has been pursuing the project on behalf of [St Mary's Music School] for several years.
An official council report said this “would not test the most suitable use of the property and may therefore not be best value for the council."
Well then let's hope that they do consider "the most suitable use of the property" at least as seriously as "best value for the council".
Posted 4 years ago # -
@ejstubbs
It may be that the council fear judicial review of any decision to immediately green-light the music school. Consultation, tender exercise and then music school?
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@IWRATS, possibly but then this:
"...the proposed hotel operator, international chain Rosewood, had already pulled out."
Maybe this is all just smoke and mirrors and the real aim is the music school. We'll see...
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Smoke, mirrors and quicksand I reckon.
The only time I've ever been polled it was to see what I thought of the music school proposal. I didn't tell them my mate's deeply involved.
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The site will not be made available for sale, but rather open to bids for sustainable long-term uses, a move which has been welcomed by heritage groups and campaigners.
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Tory finance spokesman Andrew Johnston said: “Everyone is pleased we have reached a consensus on the way this should go. It has been a long time coming.”
Shameless doesn't even begin to describe it.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Alas not a bike lane in sight on the artist's renditions, plenty of room for taxi drop offs though :/
Posted 3 years ago #
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