Parking ban at Gladhouse? https://www.midlothianview.com/news/parking-ban-to-be-implemented-at-gladhouse/
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Posted 3 years ago #
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Seen a lot of this on a pentlands facebook page. Mostly fisher folk complaining they can't access the reservoir but pay to fish there.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Has become too good a thing, drive for half an hour in a single occupant vehicle to swim for ten mins. great for mental health, but why not cycle up?
Bad to ban parking and not construct the car park. south Lanarkshire rebuilt Tinto Hill car park during lockdown to Release The Pressure.
Posted 3 years ago # -
I do wonder if this is just going to move the parking problem somewhere else.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Noticed yesterday that the parking spaces on the Mauldslie/east side of the reservoir (which may be a co-opted passing place anyway) are blocked off with planters.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Lockdown must really have messed with the solitude of the folks living out at Gladhouse.
As with most of life it gets quieter the further round you go
Posted 3 years ago # -
Signage was being installed yesterday morning when I passed.
Posted 3 years ago # -
If all it is going to be is some signs, people will just ignore them. And who is going to do any enforcing out there, given that you can't stop people parking illegally in the middle of Edinburgh?
Posted 3 years ago # -
Quite, but apart from bollards / barriers (possible issues with making road too narrow / emergency or agricultural access, plus cost) its hard to see what else they could do. Suspect it’ll be initially enforced by Midlothian Council, but for how long will be interesting. They are fairly active policing parking in the local towns so you never know.. probably one example where a (paid for) car park might be the lesser evil.
Posted 3 years ago # -
I passed today and saw the clearway signs. The parking restrictions don't cover the whole length. Shortly before the north west corner of the reserviour to the junction by Toxside is free.
A road cleaner was attempting to clean the road edges - bit too muddy in parts. Perhaps they are going to paint yellow lines soon.
The only people on the water this morning were fishermen. There were also a lot in hi viz in the anglers' car park.
Posted 3 years ago # -
It was, unsurprisingly rammed tonight. Wouldn’t be surprised if there was either a water safety incident or a fire soon given the amount of camping / swimming going on and dry conditions. Police were there in a 4x4 at one point, I think in a supervisory capacity. It was reminiscent of riding though some of the more popular bits of the pentlands in terms of traffic. Definitely prefer it in winter!
Posted 2 years ago # -
Saturday morning the first bit of the roads had maybe 30 cars all parked in a line Some sort of Paddleboard championship or we are all just sheep.
I preferred it pre. Covid when there was no one there I bet the locals do too as their idyll has been ruined.
Good that people get out to exercise, bad that they do so by all driving to the same place.
Good point about Pentlands. i have a plan to finally find the grave stone of Simon Lockhart. In the Pentlands out at Crosswood Reservoir. I won’t see anyone else when I do this but Harlaw, Flotterstone and Thriepmuir all rammed. At least they have carparks. Gladhouse is just a road.
Posted 2 years ago # -
It’s a tricky one. Car park probably the “least bad” option (although where would it go? On the site of the old village hall?), absent any massive uptake in cycling there, with charges designed to deter long stays. Hopefully council run so the money goes back into local roads etc. That and some sort of education / awareness drive to encourage people to enter/leave via the B6372 rather than the back road after Temple and Yorkston. Can be a bit narrow that way.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Thought there were parking restrictions on this road now? Of course “law without enforcement is just good advice”
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Posted 2 years ago #
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@mb - there are but doesn’t seem to be much adhered to
Posted 2 years ago # -
Does look to be near the old asbestos looking ruined hut. Was that the village hall?
Wiki says fka Moorfoot Loch though the Esk was flooded in 1879 to create the reservoir for Edinburghers to drink?
So we drink Glencorse, Talla, Fruid and Megget. Any others?
Posted 2 years ago # -
Edgelaw, Rosebery too (downstream of Gladhouse).
I’ve always thought that’s what that building was, but can’t remember where I got it from. The house at the T junction was the former school for the area too AIUI
Posted 2 years ago # -
Someone has been dismantling the lovely iron railings along the road at the east end. It's not clear why atm
Posted 2 years ago # -
Noticed that on Friday. Initially assumed it was vandalism, but would have needed fairly determined vandals to dismantle the fairly extensive length that's been dismantled.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Potentially bad news for those that like a Gladhouse loop
https://www.midlothianview.com/news/scottish-water-gladhouse-plans-to-go-on-showPosted 10 hours ago # -
It would be a real shame if the spillway refurbishment ended up effectively severing the circuit of the reservoir for walkers or cyclists. Drivers would be much less inconvenienced by the removal of the road bridge. I don't imagine it would be any kind of effective hindrance to the car "campers" who litter and set fires in the woodland strip along the north shore (all of which is within the SSSI and RAMSAR designation for the reservoir, according to Magic Maps).
The 1:25,000 OS map shows a footbridge across the spillway about 60-70m from the road. However, its accessibility either on foot or by bike is entirely unclear from the map. I think I shall have to go along to Scottish Water's drop-in event to try to get an idea of exactly what the end result is intended to look like.
I enjoyed a very pleasant circuit of the reservoir a couple of years back, organised by the Midlothian Ranger team and with a Scottish Water person present, the latter taking the opportunity to carry out an informal wildlife census. (I ended up acting as her ornithological consultant, since I was spotting and IDing things that she would never have noticed. I even managed to point out a great spotted woodpecker for her as it whizzed past, which she was quite chuffed about since she'd told me only a minute or two before that she'd never seen a woodpecker!)
Posted 7 hours ago # -
Having just had a squiz at Scottish Water's project overview for the Gladhouse spillway refurbishment, it seems that the bridge will be replaced towards the end of the project, so around the middle of 2027:
Before work can commence on the spillway, the road bridge must be removed in consideration of the health and safety risk to the teams operating underneath it. This means that a road closure will be in place from June 2025.
Unfortunately, the road bridge won’t be replaced until we near the end of the project, but when it is, it will be raised to better withstand future flooding and will be designed to support up to 44tonnes.
It wouldn't have taken much to make that clear in the Midlothian View article. Mind you, that is also the journal (amongst many others, it has to be said) which incorrectly located the recently rejected housing development in Penicuik on Craigbank Road, when a few seconds spent searching on Google Maps would have shown that there is no such road in Penicuik. (The road is actually called Cairnbank Road, and IIRC is the one via which access to the Penicuik House estate along the North Esk was temporarily and illegally blocked by an unfortunate family trying to protect their differently-abled son from bullying by local youths.)
Posted 6 hours ago # -
My scouts were out at Humbie today and report big machines at Gladhouse already.
Posted 4 hours ago #
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