Worth pointing out that these are not the first freeports in Scotland. The Thatcher Government designated Prestwick Airport as a freeport in 1984. The designation eventually lapsed in 2011. As far as I am aware, no-one has ever claimed it created a single new job.
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“Leith 'prime candidate' to become 'greenport' as Scottish Government announces”
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Posted 1 year ago #
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As someone who went to school in a Prestwick, @morningsider you is correct.
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Ferry port of Rosyth is in zone so can't be discouragement for new ferry surely?
Then again the EU already has enough freeports and business more likely to congregate closer to the Eurozone in England.
Personally I'm against but to refuse them would be used by overwhelmingly negative media here.
With the many charges and barriers to bringing in bike pallets from relatively close locations in Europe I wonder if LB could get a corner of a warehouse? They said as it's green there must be a proven net-zero benefit. Cargobikes easily meet that and will help offset the additional flights into the airport also in the zone (joking of course but would be funny if that was the kind of thing they wanted.)
Whatever happens a few jobs will be created on a management team commissioning logos, signage, brochures and social media followed by an enquiry when it goes wrong. At least we can rely on that. :-)Posted 1 year ago # -
More guesstimate hype -
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Backed by up to £52 million in UK Government funding, the new sites are expected to bring forward an estimated £10.8 billion of private and public investment and create over 75,000 new, high-skilled jobs.
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Has anyone any understanding about the talk/scare stories about Freeport zones being much wider than industrial/port areas?
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There have been questions over the integrity of the decision-making process, in particular around the success of the Forth bid
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Is anyone following all this?
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How do we find out if our homes are inside these new Freeport’s areas? Most of Edinburgh will be but so far v little published journalistic curiosity.
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Are Edinburgh Airport and Burntisland customs sites then?
Does this mean the whole Forth Zone is going back to EU with border checks on the city by-pass?
Should create lots of chaos and admin! Surely putting whole of Scotland as a Freeport would be easier?
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That’s the point
Questions
That few people seem to be asking
And fewer know the answers
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I had been looking quite firmly at West Lothian as a place to buy a house this year, but honestly reading up on this cackshow I'm starting to think East Lothian or Stirling might be a better choice.
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The National has been out in Rosyth chatting with locals.
They ken it's all flim flam! :-)
https://youtu.be/ejJL9Y86a-k?si=Nq36KEqQVtb5srzK
Paper has been looking at both Forth and Cromarty 'Green Freeports'.
Some big job successes so far with well paid CEOs and PR consultants.
ScotGov will end up paying wealthy Japanese company to come here as compensation for not being in EU.Posted 1 month ago #
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