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Started 9 years ago by SRD
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SRD
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http://www.merchistoncc.org.uk/public-meeting-re-old-boroughmuir-high-school-site/

On Tuesday 05 May there will be a public meeting (organised by the Merchiston Community Council and arts organisation Out of the Blue) to discuss the bid for the old Boroughmuir School site.

Date: Tuesday 05 May
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Place: Atrium, Boroughmuir High School

The aim of the meeting is to discuss the community bid by Out of the Blue which aims to keep the site within the community by developing the site to a community arts hub.

Speakers from Out of the Blue, the City of Edinburgh Council and Boroughmuir High School will be in attendance.

Merchiston Community Council encourages all members of the community to attend to discuss the bid, the benefits to the area and how might be supported.

Please share this event to encourage discussion and attendance.

Posted 9 years ago #
chdot
Admin

Oh no!

First Printmakers Workshop in the British Rubber building, now this.

Fountainbridge/Viewforth the new arts ghetto!!

Will need extra cycle routes, improved access across the WAR, contra-flow in Leamington Road.

I predict CHAOS!

Posted 9 years ago #
steveo
Member

I expect those empty new build will be converted into bohemian slums by the end of the year.

Posted 9 years ago #
Fountainbridge
Member

I'd like the old building to go to the highest bidder. Should help pay for the new school.

Posted 9 years ago #
chdot
Admin

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/arts-hub-plan-killed-off-by-14-5m-housing-bid-1-3763092

Posted 8 years ago #
steveo
Member

Tynecastle still empty and for sale? Its not that much further away.

Posted 8 years ago #
14Westfield
Member

tynecastle has been empty for ages but isnt as fashionable for them tho ;-)

Posted 8 years ago #
acsimpson
Member

"Cala’s proposal would see the category B-listed structure converted into an apartment complex with around 100 flats."

How long until we see that figure more than doubled as they shrink the size of each "flat" closer to the volume of a shipping container?

Posted 8 years ago #
chdot
Admin

"around 100 flats"

100 car spaces in the playground??

Posted 8 years ago #
SRD
Moderator

Only 1 per flat? Surely not...

Posted 8 years ago #
Fountainbridge
Member

Given it's city centre location, with very good transport links, Cala will be able to negotiate vastly reduced number of parking spaces.

Very good point about the old Tynecastle School. I think Hearts had a long standing agreement to buy it but this fell through when they went in to administration last year.

Posted 8 years ago #
Nelly
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"..the old Tynecastle School. I think Hearts had a long standing agreement to buy it but this fell through when they went in to administration last year"

The plans are, I believe, still in the planning portal.

I think that they had some pie in the sky notion of a new mega stand and attaching hotel complex.

The post administration regime appears to have no desire to go down the old 'spend money you dont have' route.

They will have difficulty in raising the required capital to fund any kind of new stand, never mind one incorporating a wider complex.

Posted 8 years ago #
steveo
Member

Isn't the old school listed?

Posted 8 years ago #
chdot
Admin

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/arts-hub-loss-could-pay-for-new-primary-school-1-3767094

Posted 8 years ago #
chdot
Admin

"

“I think you have got to take all of these things into account. Then still make a sensible business decision. It is only if we can actually make the economics work. Like to what extent could we increase the capacity and what would be the implications?”

As far back as 1990, when former owner Wallace Mercer talked of a merger with Hibs and a single purpose-built stadium, the need for upgraded facilities has been clear. But the partial revamp of Tynecastle has been restricted by the ongoing battle to overcome the constraints imposed by the old main stand. Full of character but crumbling and claustrophobic, there is no obvious solution to its limitations.

"

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spfl-lower-divisions/ann-budge-wants-hearts-to-remain-at-tynecastle-1-3768542

Posted 8 years ago #
SRD
Moderator

petition:

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/support-the-out-of-the-blue-bid-for-old-boroughmuir-high-school-site

first time MerchistonCC 's done anything so radical. worth supporting them just for that.

Posted 8 years ago #
chdot
Admin

"2,749 of 3,000 signatures"

"first time MerchistonCC 's done anything so radical. worth supporting them just for that."

You mean they started it or just signed it?

Interesting set of proposals. Presumably if this was successful OOTB would move from Leith?

Posted 8 years ago #
kaputnik
Moderator

Presumably if this was successful OOTB would move from Leith?

They also have a big place in Portobello in part of the old Scottish Power site called The Powerhouse. Last I heard Dalmeny Street was full and oversubscribed. Maybe they intend to keep the latter?

Posted 8 years ago #
SRD
Moderator

@chdot started it, i believe

and as kaputnik says, i think this is a new venture for OOTB, not a move

Posted 8 years ago #
Vez
Member

The Powerhouse in Porty is being knocked down for an Aldi and housing. All the OOTB tenants there got notice to quit in March (it used to be one of my workplaces) OOTB are looking for alternatives, short and long term I think.

Posted 8 years ago #
chdot
Admin

"2,974 of 3,000 signatures"

Posted 8 years ago #
kaputnik
Moderator

Flogged to Cala Homes, the highest cash bidder (£14.5m).

Posted 8 years ago #
chdot
Admin

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/historic-high-school-to-be-turned-into-14-5m-flats-1-3772655

Posted 8 years ago #
kaputnik
Moderator

Does this qualify as a "brownfield" development?

I'm sure lots of people want to live in Bruntsfield and the development will do very well. The flats converted out of the old Warrender Park School / Napier University annexe were all snapped up very quickly for rather hefty amounts.

At the other end of Viewforth of course there is planning applications out to demolish the industrial/garage units along the canal opposite the new school and cram in blocks of flats there too.

Posted 8 years ago #
Fountainbridge
Member

No I don't think it is classed as brownfield development.

Plans for Viewforth / Horne Terrace - https://goo.gl/fxcd5Y

I noticed the body repair shop moved out some months ago. Application has been fairly stagnant for past year but revised drawings submitted in March 2015.

Talk about overdevelopment though - 6 stories high!

3 x 1 bed, 9 x 2 bed, 2 x 3 bed duplex, 3 x 3 bed townhouse

Relevance to Boroughmuir (which is in parking zone 2)

"
we were advised that Horne Terrace was in Parking Zone 2 of the City Car Parking Standards and therefore the minimum number of car parking spaces per dwelling is 0, and the maximum is 1.

Posted 8 years ago #
chdot
Admin

"

David McGrath, managing director of Cala Homes (East) - who are behind the proposals - said: “We are at the very earliest stages of the process and will be consulting widely with the local community.

"

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/boroughmuir-high-school-restoration-images-revealed-1-4139800

Posted 7 years ago #
Fountainbridge
Member

I notice they fail to mention what the outside will look like.

Posted 7 years ago #

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