So they are going to drag an additional 100 cars into the area.
Ludicrous.
THERE IS NO SPACE for cars.
And what does that mean for any hope of shutting the canal bridge at Viewforth to motors?
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Old Boroughmuir high school redevelopment
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Posted 5 years ago #
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Proposals to transform a former Edinburgh high school into housing have been approved despite worries over transport and affordable housing.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-45508178
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Affordable hous g in Bruntsfield would be attractive. Maybe even cause a bidding war. Oh wait, Cala pay a bit more for th site and affordable housing goes into Granton in 2024?
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It's criminal to convert a building, custom designed to be a school into flats, especially when there is a local shortage of school buildings (e.g. Gillespie's now have Portacabins).
Worse still, they'll take the building and carve it into odd levels, with gawky contemporary mezzanines & floors cutting halfway across the windows. And making the playground into a giant carpark dead wasteland instead of a garden...
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Is Darroch campus currently being used?
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Not sure, no school has spilled over into it for a while but all sorts can be found in the famous Darroch Annex. Don't think it can be sold to develop into housing
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"Gillespie's now have Portacabins"
That particular issue could be solved at a stroke by moving the Gaelic Medium Education unit elsewhere.
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Wonder if the people buying the apartments know that their children wont be guaranteed a place in the new school as secondary rolls rise, just about to kick off like daylight hours.
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If a catchment school is oversubscribed by catchment potential pupils, does it not come down to eg distance of residence from school, siblings at the school, etc? The new flat residents would appear to have a stronger case on the former than Buckstone residents, for example?
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Exactly. Siblings, then travel distance.
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Exactly - if new to area and move in then there ain’t gonna be no siblings there already
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Nothing but car parking. All in an area where you don't need a car.
Visualisation showing only 5 cars in the massive car park out front. Bet it won't be so pretty when it's a sea of multi-coloured metal boxes...
Could have been a huge garden, fronting the street.
So depressing and predictable
Posted 3 years ago # -
From the blurb
which gives a range of buyers, from professionals to second home buyers, that feeling of ‘I can see myself living here’.
Yep, so diverse.
Posted 3 years ago # -
@14 Westfield
Such a sense of entitlement
such a lack of irony
And such a lot of wonga
The prerequisites to own one of those flats?
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Going by the size of the one pictured on the cala website, the key word there is "myself". Definitely not "my family".
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Singletons, divorcees and pieds-à-terre only then?
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Cala - a happy home for you and your car.
A veritable festival of monoblocking. Mrs LB went to school there and she reckons the playground was greener.@neddie
Could have been a huge garden, fronting the street.
So depressing and predictable
So your future home is in the middle of a vast car park. But, wait... it has EV charging points. Does it have a decent covered and secure bike parking area?
Silly question...Actually the much maligned Quartermile has loads of bike parking underground and is actually greener in feel.
Cala have missed the mood of the times - what a let down.Posted 3 years ago # -
CALA is the City of Aberdeen Land Association (originally).
They like their motors up in Aberdeen.Now based in Falkirk, where "executive homes" have been mushrooming in recent years. Folk who live in such homes also tend to be motoring enthusiasts.
Vroom, vroom!
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