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"A NEW community garden at Calders Crescent in Wester Hailes has transformed a derelict piece of land and is attracting more people to the Union Canal and improving the lives of people living in the area."
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Garden-work-helps-derelict-site.6775261.jp
Now this is a good idea. There's a bit we could do this to near us - between the Lift bridge and Viewforth - anyone got any plants we could put in? There's lots of light now that those big buildings are gone and it would make a great community garden/allotments/park.
SRD, Isn't that stretch all grit?
a bit of topsoil will sort it.
I think that the big buildings that are now gone will imminently be replaced by even bigger ones full of students.
No! I think we should claim it first.
Seriously though, you know why they put student flats in places like this? because they can make them denser than if they were 'proper' flats because there's no requirement for (car) parking. hence all the bike racks in the drawings. 'Real' people need car parking.
And that you can charge shocking rents for tiny little boxes during term time. And then charge even more shocking rents for tiny little boxes during festival time.
I'd never really thought about the car thing, but it figures. Why build in car parking spaces when students can park their bangers on neighbouring streets with their ample parking...
If buildings are put up without car parking - offices or houses - this is a way of generating cash for the council as people (even apparently students) need cars and will pay for car parking. HM Revenue and Customs also now prevent staff claiming parking costs for parking at their work.
Of course I would advocate less dense living (as an old git, I find many students dense enough as it is, forgetting how dense I was as a student, but I learn Mr Fawlty). I vote for mandatory car parking being exchanged for mandatory allotments and chicken coops.
Alternatively, not providing car parking might nudge people away from cars given price of petrol it can be cheaper to go by public transport, cycle or walk. These three forms of transport are practical in Edinburgh in a way they aren't in big cities or rural places. So putting student accommodation on the inner city brewery site is not all bad and adding gardens would be an improvement. {Given the shocking rents the studes have to pay - I say give em gardens to grow their herbs and plants in, it is all home grown these days}
I am off to Calders Crescent to check out that community garden
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