Sheesh, somehow it looks like the Portobello Park Action Group (PPAG) have won their case at the Court of Session, and the Council can't appropriate the section of Porty Park for the new Porty High. Kids in the area stuck with a school that when my other half was a pupil there 20+ years ago was not fit for purpose, let alone now.
Notable (and perhaps understandable) that all of the houses with posters up for protecting the park were in the big hooses overlooking the park (who, bizarrely, had no problem with the Figgate Park being built on (it was one of their suggested alternatives) - while Porty Park is basically a rectangle of overgrown grass that you occasionally see someone walking a dog around), but really stuck in the craw some of the scare tactics used by PPAG (they really did knowingly mislead all over the place). But, from a purely legal point of view I can see why the judgement was arrived at (which was mainly on whether the council had power to appropriate the land, not on the impacts of building on the land).
Wonder if the council will have the funds to take this further. Thing is, it has cost a huge amount of money so far, and it has been going on so long there's no doubt the work will have to be re-tendered, incurring even more expense.
Sigh.
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