"A TEAM of regeneration experts costing £400,000 have been appointed to drive forward development in four key areas of the Capital."
"The high-ranking staff, who have been given two-year contracts on a salary of £50,000 a year, will each be assigned a separate area of the city when they start in January."
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/City-forks-out-400000-on.6652416.jp
While £50k is clearly a lot of money by many people's standards, it's not really what counts as "high-ranking" pay these days!
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The south-east of the city is earmarked as an area suitable for major housing developments - particularly at Craigmillar - and bioscience specialists. In the west of the city, the council wants to bring a company with a headquarters as big as RBS to the area, as well as a series of other smaller financial firms. It also wants to investigate whether it can bring in a major new music and conference venue and an international trade centre.
Former council assets are among those being marketed as development opportunities in the city centre, while Forth Ports and EDI are behind much of the plans to develop the Waterfront.
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RIGHT so what are four people going to manage that all the public and private sector people haven't managed in the past 10 years??
"they start in January"
Well let's hope they look at walk/cycle/bus access to these areas - and keeping them going in all weathers...
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