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One of the harshest public critics of the council’s development strategies in recent years has been Malcolm Fraser, the award-winning architect. While he welcomes new moves to reposition the waterfront as a renewables hub he is scathing of the vision elsewhere.
“There are still huge sites available for family homes in the waterfront and elsewhere in town,” he said. “The city should resist a drift into the greenbelt which actively undermines the compact, walkable beauty that characterises Edinburgh.
“The Scottish Government has already foisted an ‘international business gateway’ on us to join RBS on the greenbelt, so businessmen can fly to a placeless, airport-business-park Edinburgh without having to bother with the real one.
“The ‘economic imperative’ in Edinburgh now means huge pressure to accept that the most miserably compromised proposal can be made just a little less poor if committees of design panels argue over its details.”
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