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"Charlotte Square gardens to open for public events"
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Or, as the Cockburn Association phrased it on FB, "A further move to ruin the setting of George Street and its two squares". They then replaced their dummy and went back to wistfully perusing the original drawings for the New Town.
Posted 10 years ago # -
"A further move to ruin the setting of George Street and its two squares"
There are times when 'campaigning to protect the past' is a good thing, and sometimes the Cockburn does a good job of 'standing up for Edinburgh', but...
Posted 10 years ago # -
Personally, I much preferred it when Craigleith was a huge deposit of fine white sand deep under the sea, or better still when Arthur's Seat was proudly spewing molten rock all over the place. Much grander than hacking out unnaturally-shaped cuboidal blocks to face houses or surface streets with.
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Good idea. Who wants/needs a big square of grass with a tall iron fence stopping you making any use of it?
"The proprietors". Anyone know who actually owns the square? One of our esteemed landed gentries, an investment fund, a shady, tax efficient New Town garden holding/administration trust?
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i seem to recall that a *very* wealthy private equity manager has been buying up the Charlotte Square properties and restoring them. He has an aim of bringing some/most of them back into use as residences rather than just offices. Think it was quite a positive plan from what I can recall.
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Actually, it looks like I'm completely wrong about that.....
http://m.scotsman.com/business/charlotte-square-properties-won-t-be-put-up-for-sale-1-3070001
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Not wrong, may have changed mind/investment strategy -
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On reading Scotsman link, suspect it's a different set of properties.
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Quite a few old New Town townhouses being returned to residential use by splitting them up into smaller flats. Sorry, "apartments".
I was amused by the big marketing hoarding on one such townhouse development in Queen Street proclaiming "COMING SOON: 9 NEW LUXURY MEWS FLATS".
Q. When is a mews flat not a mews flat?
A. When it's not on a mews.Posted 10 years ago # -
I spotted a line of seven fly fishers casting their lines (but seemingly failing to catch anything) in the middle of Charlotte Square when I wandered by on Sunday.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Haven't seen it used for that for a while:
c2007-07-23_13-52-38_011 by wingpig, on Flickr
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Q. When is a mews flat not a mews flat?
When the living accommodation ownership has been split from the stabling/carriage/motor car accommodation beneath.
Mews ought to be ideal town living spaces for people who don't want to own a motor vehicle but do want to own multiple bicycles.
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Why would anyone want to own more than one bicycle?
Posted 10 years ago # -
Why would anyone want to own only one bicycle?
;-)Posted 10 years ago # -
@fimm: my post was missing the ;-) but I'm sure you knew that!
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Why would anyone want to own more than one bicycle?
Said every block of flats planner ever.
Posted 10 years ago # -
It's WAR!
"Edinburgh book festival 'may be forced to move'*
"The Cockburn Association, the city’s most powerful and influential heritage watchdog, is calling for an end to the practice of hiring out its historic garden for events because of the “degradation” they cause.
The organisation, formed in 1875, says the book festival and high-profile events in St Andrew Square Garden, which it also wants banned, are ruining the “classic New Town architecture” of George Street and the gardens that bookend it."
And so on...
*There is nothing in the article to suggest that it may be forced to move.
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'Cockburn Ass said and we want only carriages with horses around the Square(s) and on George Street.'
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'They later clarified that approved bicycle clubs - abiding by a dress code - would be tolerated.'
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First they came for the Ladyboys, then they came for the book fair, who will be next....
Posted 10 years ago # -
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/charlotte-square-restoration-plans-put-on-hold-1-3861523
Or not...
Unsurprisingly the tax-haven based developer haven't stumped up the cash the council optimistically thought they would so it's all cancelled for now.
Business as usual then with a locked off greenspace and the road being a badly rutted car park.
Posted 9 years ago #
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