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Craigmillar Community Council secretary Terry Tweed said the Edmondstone site was in poor condition despite being part of the green belt, adding: “My thought is housing and people come before grass.”
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"Edmonstone green belt fears as builder wins appeal"
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Posted 12 years ago #
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“Clearly there is a desperate need for affordable housing in Edinburgh, but I think it’s vitally important that we ensure we look at the many brown field sites around. There are a great many sites nowhere near as sensitive as this one.”"
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There are no material considerations which justify a departure from the development plan.
In terms of procedure, as the proposal is a significant departure from the development plan and contrary to National Planning Framework 3 in terms of the Central Scotland Green Network, the application must be referred to Full Council for a decision.
It is recommended that this application be Refused for the reasons below.
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I don't pretend to understand the economics / pricing structure of housebuilders, but back-of-the-cerealbox mathematics for £10,000,000 to grout all the mineshafts, for 360 houses, would mean a £28k ground remediation cost per house. 90 of these houses are meant to be "affordable". Surely you can build houses that are more affordable by using (brownfield) land which is already suitable for housebuilding. It's either that or they'll have to add that on to the bill for the owners of the non-affordable houses.
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The University of Dundee is to lead a study zeroing in on the quality of design (or lack thereof) of new suburban housing, in an effort to boost standards ahead of projected suburban expansion over the next 15 years.
A spate of sprawl is anticipated in Perth & Kinross, Edinburgh and the Lothians and Aberdeenshire as local authorities scrabble to meet an expected 20 per cent population increase.
By bringing together academia, industry, government and regulatory bodies the study aims to assess how architecture can be prioritised through new methods of procurement in the delivery of volume housing.
Professor Graeme Hutton, head of architecture and planning at the University said: “The Scottish Government has already outlined its commitment to improving the quality of the built environment yet no empirical evidence exists to unequivocally prove that the policy statement has had any demonstrable impact on the everyday physical quality of the architecture and environment being presented to the public.
“In particular, the continued acceleration of anonymous but market-friendly volume house building estates across Scotland suggests that the development of the suburbs has largely escaped critical scrutiny. What we have continued to see in the majority of cases is a
product-led’ rather thanplace-led’ approach to expanding provision in our towns and cities."It is well researched that good architecture
adds value’. There is, however, an increasing perception that architecture is the province of individualsignature buildings’ with little engagement of architects in designing buildings and places which belong to the `everyday’, particularly in relation to volume house-building.”The Glasgow School of Art together with the Universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde are also collaborating on the venture.
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Alternatively, green policy could start by refuting the notion that growth is good and has no costs, to people or the environment. A target Scottish population of 5m would be a great start.
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