New Portobello High School- Where and how?

by **Mate of Marya** » 16 Mar 2006, 07:52

Good drawings!

by **Mate of Marya** » 16 Mar 2006, 08:04

[quote="bbbrown"]thinking about cavalry park.......

Calvary Park is not exactly in the centre of the PHS catchment area is it?
How would children from Craigentinny/Portobello Road get to Duddingston Road West?
If the general public thought this to be a viable proposal, we could just forget about building a new PHS and use Castelbrae High School which is practically empty.

by **Mrs Mangle** » 16 Mar 2006, 09:19

by **Stephen McIntyre** » 16 Mar 2006, 09:44

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by **Stephen McIntyre** » 16 Mar 2006, 12:08

by **Bob Jefferson** » 16 Mar 2006, 12:22

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by **Pal of Porty** » 16 Mar 2006, 13:28

by **Dadaist** » 16 Mar 2006, 13:29

by **Stephen McIntyre** » 16 Mar 2006, 13:45

by **Pal of Porty** » 16 Mar 2006, 13:45

by **Dadaist** » 16 Mar 2006, 14:08

by **Stephen McIntyre** » 16 Mar 2006, 14:12

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by **seanie** » 16 Mar 2006, 19:44

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by **Bob Jefferson** » 16 Mar 2006, 23:05

by **seanie** » 16 Mar 2006, 23:20

by **Bob Jefferson** » 16 Mar 2006, 23:25

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by **Dave Connelly** » 16 Mar 2006, 23:42

by **Bob Jefferson** » 16 Mar 2006, 23:53

by **Dadaist** » 17 Mar 2006, 00:11

by **seanie** » 17 Mar 2006, 01:14

I fear itâ€™s premature but Iâ€™ll tell you the pound of flesh Iâ€™d try to extract.

And itâ€™s not something dependent on the details. Itâ€™s about the funding.

The funding problem is a real one. Â£40 million plus is a mighty big sum to just drop out of the sky. To secure that kind of capital, in the current climate, will realistically require housing development.

Now people have sought assurances that all the proceeds from development will be re-invested in the proposals and wonâ€™t be siphoned off. That strikes me as a pretty low hurdle to ask the Council to jump. Iâ€™d think that would be an absolute minimum requirement.

Iâ€™d want assurances that the proposals will receive all the procceds from the housing development and more.

There was a quote from Stephen Hawking the other a day about how other communities got their new schools through PPP but Portobello is having to give up a valued asset to get theirs. That hits the head on a very true, real, and unfair nail.

The people of Portobello, due to PPP, will be contributing over the odds to other schools for the next 30 years. Iâ€™d think it entirely reasonable to expect a little quid pro quo. To me replacing the schools is the priority. Because of that need Iâ€™d be resigned to the prospect of housing development. But thatâ€™s all Iâ€™d accept the housing for. The schools.

A new golf-course, a re-developed park, new community facilities? I'd regard them as absolutely essential. But somebody else can pay for them.

Given the sums for building new schools, that may only represent the icing and cherry on top of a large and bitter bun. But Portobello wouldâ€™ve already swallowed the bitter bun to obtain new schools.

The rest of Edinburgh should at least help sweeten it.

by **bbbrown** » 17 Mar 2006, 11:05

by **Stephen McIntyre** » 17 Mar 2006, 12:15

by **Stephen McIntyre** » 17 Mar 2006, 12:27

by **bbbrown** » 17 Mar 2006, 12:55

by **Stephen McIntyre** » 17 Mar 2006, 13:22

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