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Conservationist calls for Edinburgh to be stripped of prestigious 'heritage site' status
A LEADING urban conservationist is calling on Unesco to strip Scotland's capital of its world heritage status over a series of "architectural blunders".
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http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/call-to-strip-city-heritage-status-1-3683896
A call to remove the UNESCO WH status? Like Edinburgh's 5th season inbetween Winter and Spring.
Oh just hurry up and do it already. As Kaputnik already noted when this came up last year - this comes up every year. They are like a parent failing to discipline a child. No you can't have sweets. Oh alright then. What do they think that child is going to do next time they are told they can't have sweets?
I'm going to count to three: one ... two ... two and a half ... two and three quarters ...
Don't mention Quarters - that's part of the 'problem' in Edinburgh.
Presumably ThisIsEdinburgh or whomever will just adapt their wording to "former UNESCO World Heritage site" or whatever so that they can still mention it in their bumf.
Presumably, around the time of the award, huge grey/brown concrete lumps were so commonplace that the eyes of the judges passed over them without registering. Maybe they were never taken to see the skyline from the north.
My home village embarrassingly maintained its increasingly out-of-date "Winner of the Best Kept Village 1989" sign-appendages long after the title could have been judged to have expired. It won again in 2011 so they'll probably keep those up for another twenty years now.
I think that does depend on how well standards have been kept in the meantime. If it kept becoming less and less well kept every year and still kept inexplicably winning the award anyway, that would be embarrassing.
"My home village embarrassingly maintained its increasingly out-of-date "Winner of the Best Kept Village 1989" "
Cockenzie aren't quite as out of date:
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What happens when a city is stripped of its World Heritage status anyway? Will Andrew Burns be summoned to Geneva to have his epaulettes and buttons ripped off by sword?
Coincidentally, I happened to stroll along Market Street yesterday, and took some snaps of the new Caltongate (or whatever it's called now) buildings.
The Market Street arches have been done well, and liven the area up in comparison to the way it was before. Some of the other buildings, well they're competent but pretty bland. You really could be anywhere. Is a huge Premier Inn really the sort of high prestige development the council were after? It's right across from their HQ...
Will Andrew Burns be summoned to Geneva to have his epaulettes and buttons ripped off by sword?
That would be quite amusing but I don't think anything would happen at all really. it would give the council free rein to build as many huge and hideous carbuncles as it wants? Well, umm, that is already happening. Are tourists going to stop visiting the city? I doubt it.
I wonder if it would have an impact on the funding that Edinburgh receives from them to pay for heritage projects? I know there have been funded projects in the past and they might think the money can be better spent elsewhere if Edinburgh is going to ruin its own city!
@crowriver - two premier inns, one of them premier plus. According to chap in the retro football kit shop in one of the arches. They sometimes have the lights on and you can see that the fitments and fittings are of a higher standard than standard.
The corporate bit of our corporation sees the development as a way of making the HQ more attractive.
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