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The Soot campaigns` parent organisation the Canongate Community Forum (CCF) was successful in receiving an award from the Scottish Community Action Research Fund SCARF at the end of last year. Premises have now been secured to run the project from in St Mary's St.
The programme will run from the 1st of May onwards until June.
The shop is no. 8 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SU ...which is just off the Canongate., at the top of the street nearest the Royal mile.
Poster Campaign Feb 08
Put a poster up in your window, wherever you live in the city, to send out a clear message to the council, the developers, the architects , everyone............... Click on links to open and print posters, or make your own
LandscapePoster Mircrosoftwindows
PotraitPoster Microsoft Windows
Prince Charles Says NO to Caltongate
A speech by HRH The Prince of Wales at the New Buildings in Old Places Conference, St James's Palace, London
31st January 2008 FullSpeech
from speech -
Britain is being demolished under our very noses
Almost by stealth, our built landscape is being transformed
Something very important is going on out there, and I’m not sure that anyone has really noticed. Just look out of your window and you are likely to see fundamental changes happening to the place where you live. Cranes are out in force, a great metallic forest of them; our roads are populated by concrete mixers and lorries full of demolition waste; white vans full of electricians, plumbers and carpenters clog the streets, and their skips are two-deep on the roadsides. Everywhere you look there is scaffolding. This is not just the Olympics â” although the size of the construction programme there is breathtaking â” nor just the construction of more skyscraping offices in the City: it affects every town and city and a fair few villages too. Britain is, in fact, being rebuilt under our noses.
Of course Britain has always been rebuilt, whether by the Romans, by the Georgians or by the Victorian railway pioneers flinging tracks across the countryside and into the heart of mediaeval cities. Industries grow up and die, settlements flourish and wilt, fashionable areas become slums, and then the slums themselves become fashionable. But today there is no doubt that we are, again, in a radical and far-reaching state of physical change and, if the government can sustain the pace, it is going to get faster and more furious. The strange thing is that for anyone in their late seventies this will all sound and look disconcertingly familiar.
Good News 12th Dec 07
Canongate Community Forum (CCF) has been successful in securing funding from SCARF which helps organisations that focus on improving communities, by supporting involvement in local action. It is provided by Communities Scotland and managed by the Scottish Community Development Centre.
Find out more at the link below.http://www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk/stellent/groups/public/documents/webpages/cs_006402.hcsp#TopOfPage
What makes Edinburgh distinctive? Nov 22nd 07
What makes Edinburgh distinctive and how does it compare with other World Heritage cities?
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Hear Professor Herb Stovel, one of the world’s leading authorities on conservation matters, in discussion with the EWH Chairman Professor Charles McKean… |
Portal now closed for comment on 13th application
This is for the demolition of the tenements, an alternative to the full height breakthrough application, this one is for a double height pend. It still requires demolition of buildings. It is next to Big Jack`s Close that could be opened to create access to site, but alas they want make a a pend big enough for a giant..
See image of proposed application
http://www.eh8.org.uk/files/0704400FUL.doc
Application REFERENCE NUMBER: 07/04400/FUL
Link to application on Councils Planning Portal
Object before midnight Tuesday 6th November 2007
THE PLANS HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED
Remember you can be any age, nationality and live anywhere in the world to object to the planning applications. It now transpires you have extra time to object due to recent postal strikes, so if you didn’t find time to object before the original closing date of the 18th of October then do so now before midnight on Tuesday the 6th November.
Many thanks to those who have, in the hundreds now, but it could be an even louder and clearer message that could be sent to those who are backing the scheme!!
IMPORTANT READ AND ACT BEFORE Midnight on the 6th November.
Use the letters below as a guide, but DO add your own comments, especially at the beginning. You must keep in the application numbers and official points.
The council are seemingly discrediting your objections if they are in the form of a pro forma letter. We are currently investigating the legality of this decision by their planning department. In the meantime use the two letters below as a guide, copy and paste them into your own document and add your own comments, especially at the beginning. You must keep the application numbers and the content, but do flesh it out a bit.
Remember to add your name and address at top right corner, date it and put your name at bottom.
Use this as a guide if you did previously object in May/June 2007
http://www.eh8.org.uk/files/objectionsoct07repeat.doc
Use this as a guide if you did not object in May/June 2007
http://www.eh8.org.uk/files/object1sttimenov07.doc
Then send your objections to
bruce.nicolson@edinburgh.gov.uk- Council Planning Department
And copy them to
Shirley-Anne.Somerville.MSP@scottish.parliament.uk
canongatecommunityforum@yahoo.co.uk
The more objections received the more they will see that this is WRONG for the Capital’s Historic Core...and you will be proud to say you played your part.
