The Filmhouse is doing pre-consultation about their proposals for a replacement Filmhouse building in Festival Square:
https://www.filmhousecinema.com/future
Survey (closes 12 July):
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TK2MRYQ
Any thoughts?
I have put this in Infrastructure as the plans sadly don't seem to take any proper account of the existing not-quite-fully-baked cycleways from Festival Square to Shandwick Place (via bridge over the WAR) and EICC/Canal (via Scottish Widows rotunda thingie), and potentially extending eastwards across Lothian Road to Usher Hall and beyond.
The plans seem to show no access from the cycleway to south of the planned Filmhouse, and stairs (what?!!) from the north side down to Lothian Road.
Given that Spokes had doodled drawings linking all of this up since at least sometime in the 1980s [1], would it be too much to expect so-called "proper" architects to get this right?
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/55.9459/-3.2049
And, likewise, will the Council ever get their gardyloo together to actually destination/direction signpost these cycle routes properly?
And, obviously, where will the cycle parking be?
[1] those Spokes doodles were my first introduction, as a young country bumpkin, to the idea that town planning was A Thing, and not just the random unforeseen messy results of any old ramshackle collection of unrelated and uninterested "development" proposals that the UK sadly seems to do by default…
Not so cycling related, am I the only one not very impressed at the building relegating us proles to the increasingly dank depths of the Metropolis under-city, while only the Eloi get to venture up above ground and into the sky?
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