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"South Beechwood nursing home approval angers parkland users"
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Posted 9 years ago #
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It's "unofficial parkland" apparently.
Still, CEC knocked it back, only for the Scottish government to grant permission on appeal.
How many more cases like this do we face in this city?
Posted 9 years ago # -
I'd always assumed that it belonged to the South Beechwood estate.
Are "care homes" becoming the new student housing? There's one being built at Pinkhill already and a recent application to build one on Belgrave Road was declined.
Posted 9 years ago # -
"Are "care homes" becoming the new student housing? "
Presumably there are similar VAT advantages, can be built to a higher density, etc. therefore maximising developer and operator profits? No "affordable housing" quota requirement either...
Posted 9 years ago # -
I thought student housing was the new care homes? Only there's been a bit of a drought in funding for expansion in the care home sector I think since Four Seasons went under; rapid expansion/consolidation in the industry had been fuelled by debt.
Possibly there's an apparent sudden increase in expansion of student housing and care homes because the investment is now there for it for first time in 7/8 years. The demand had never gone away.
And yes probably cheaper and more reliably profitable and tax advantageous than doing something productive like building affordable housing.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Is this the bit of land between the South Beechwood housing estate and the Bridge Club, bounded by Corstorphine Road to north and railway path to south?
There's an almost equal-sized bit of parkland at the other end of the houses, which I notice on streetview has a "no ball games" sign up. There are lots of private gardens in the estate and also other grassy common areas.
Developers also want to include 25% of the current space for common usage and build a playpark?
Posted 9 years ago # -
Yes, that's the spot.
Posted 9 years ago # -
"Developers also want to include 25% of the current space for common usage and build a play park?"
Which seems fair enough.
Obvs I don't live there but the whole thing does smack of NIMBYism.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Also, if this was a "normal" private residential planning rules stipulate the developers have to set aside a % of homes as "affordable", either for rent or purchase. Can't recall the exact proportion but of course not much profit to be made from such provision.
With student hutches (tourist hutches at festival time) and old folk warehouses there is no such stipulation to interfere with profits.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Agreed. I live nearby; can't see it adding massively to traffic, and South Beechwood is right next to the Corstorphine Road racetrack anyway.
In all the times I've gone past over the last 15 years I don't think I've ever seen anyone out on that bit of grass. The photo of the kids carrying the goal posts is misleading. All that's on there normally is a random solitary traffic cone.
Posted 9 years ago # -
The groundworks surveyors were out this morning. Not hanging around on this one.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Heras fencing up, diggers on site and work now underway.
Posted 8 years ago #
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