Speak out on path plan (Dumfries and Galloway)

I REFER to your article, ‘Have a say as paths plan is created for the
region’, (E&L, February 26) and to Dumfries and Galloway Council’s glossy
leaflet Core Paths.
Considering Langholm’s history of common lands being eroded and lost to
landowners, any public consultation under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act
2003 – the legislation is supposed to recognise our [...]

Developer collapse hits city plan

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The development was the biggest project in Edinburgh since the Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh’s biggest development project in a decade has been put on hold after the firm behind it went into administration.

‘Grand’ failure offers green light for green space

REJOICE! CALTONGATE, Edinburgh’s grandiose £300 million development project, looks dead in the water because the company behind it, Mountgrange, has run out of dosh.

Green Light to Brown Envelopes

From: Burgh Angel
In a panicky response to the dreaded credit crunch, Glasgow City Council has decided to fast track sale of publicly owned land on an ‘off market’ basis.

Planners Network UK

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News Release: Chris Hoy in video appeal for Meadowbank to be saved

Triple Olympic medallist Chris Hoy has given his backing to the campaign to save Meadowbank from closure.
The most successful Scottish Olympian of all time learned his craft in his home town of Edinburgh and readily admits he wouldn’t have achieved his record haul had it not been for the Meadowbank velodrome. Yet Edinburgh Council plan to [...]

T’rubble at mill (Rd) Cambridge – How corporations refuse to take no for an answer

From SchNews – www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news656.htm
For the last 378 days and counting, local campaigners have managed to
thwart Tesco’s plans to open an ‘Express’ store on Cambridge’s Mill
Road. The street has a large number of mainly independent shops – a
rare sight these days when every town centre is an identikit high
street set of corporate chains.