There is a Meeting tomorrow Monday 1st September at the Kings Manor Hotel with Council representatives.
We are hoping as many people as possible, including families with children, will turn up between 4 and 7 pm to show an interest/ concerns about these local plans.
Our Green Belt: the Brunstane Fields
2000 homes planned to be built
Sunday 31 August 2014
An example of a letter to your Councillor.
Dear Councillor____________________
We are writing to you to inform you that we wish to oppose in the strongest possible terms the plans to allow housing to be built on the Brunstane section of the City of Edinburgh 's Green Belt. This letter is, furthermore a request for you, as our elected representative to act on our behalf as a matter of urgency to prevent this part of the plan from being progressed.
To remove the green belt in it's entirety from this part of East Edinburgh would impact hugely, not only locally but city wide and the lack of notification and tight time scales for consultation which have been imposed on us are unfair, undemocratic and unacceptable.
Some of the reasons for our objections fall into the following categories:-
The green belt is at it's narrowest here and to build on the 2 large Brunstane fields as the plan proposes would leave no green space whatsoever between Edinburgh and East Lothian.
The addition of this number of houses would cause traffic chaos which would have a knock on effect a cross the city.
The infrastructure does not exist in the Brunstane area to support the development as it does in the west of the City.
The fields and their location are of critical environmental importance and adjoin important heritage
sites.
Beneath the fields lies a vast network of old mining tunnels which would most probably necessitate landfill at huge public expense.
Existing services such as sewage works would not extend to support the project.
Furthermore we believe the proposals to be unlawful and are in the process of a detailed exploration of the legal aspects of this part of the plan.
Local residents, associations and communities were not notified and were, therefore unaware of these plans prior to the council's decision of 19th July. The criterior for notification used by officials was, (shockingly) the same as for plans to build one domestic house i.e. residents within 25 metres. Many people are, even now unaware that this huge threat to their quality of living and that of their children even exists. We therefore need time to raise public awareness, to gather detailed and expert information and to frame our objections in legitimate and reasonable terms.
We therefore call on you as an elected member of the Council to ensure that
Planning officials are instructed to :-
1) Significantly extend the timescales for consultation.
2) Produce a transparent and realistic consultation plan which disseminates vital, specific and comprehensible information to local citizens, communities and their representatives.
3) Investigate alternative sites which could be used for housing development such as the land to the east of the Millburn Tower or similar which would allow the Brunstane fields to be retained for the production of food (which they are now ) and to maintain this narrow thread of green space between Edinburgh and East Lothian.
Yours Sincerely,
_______________________________________
We are writing to you to inform you that we wish to oppose in the strongest possible terms the plans to allow housing to be built on the Brunstane section of the City of Edinburgh 's Green Belt. This letter is, furthermore a request for you, as our elected representative to act on our behalf as a matter of urgency to prevent this part of the plan from being progressed.
To remove the green belt in it's entirety from this part of East Edinburgh would impact hugely, not only locally but city wide and the lack of notification and tight time scales for consultation which have been imposed on us are unfair, undemocratic and unacceptable.
Some of the reasons for our objections fall into the following categories:-
The green belt is at it's narrowest here and to build on the 2 large Brunstane fields as the plan proposes would leave no green space whatsoever between Edinburgh and East Lothian.
The addition of this number of houses would cause traffic chaos which would have a knock on effect a cross the city.
The infrastructure does not exist in the Brunstane area to support the development as it does in the west of the City.
The fields and their location are of critical environmental importance and adjoin important heritage
sites.
Beneath the fields lies a vast network of old mining tunnels which would most probably necessitate landfill at huge public expense.
Existing services such as sewage works would not extend to support the project.
Furthermore we believe the proposals to be unlawful and are in the process of a detailed exploration of the legal aspects of this part of the plan.
Local residents, associations and communities were not notified and were, therefore unaware of these plans prior to the council's decision of 19th July. The criterior for notification used by officials was, (shockingly) the same as for plans to build one domestic house i.e. residents within 25 metres. Many people are, even now unaware that this huge threat to their quality of living and that of their children even exists. We therefore need time to raise public awareness, to gather detailed and expert information and to frame our objections in legitimate and reasonable terms.
We therefore call on you as an elected member of the Council to ensure that
Planning officials are instructed to :-
1) Significantly extend the timescales for consultation.
2) Produce a transparent and realistic consultation plan which disseminates vital, specific and comprehensible information to local citizens, communities and their representatives.
3) Investigate alternative sites which could be used for housing development such as the land to the east of the Millburn Tower or similar which would allow the Brunstane fields to be retained for the production of food (which they are now ) and to maintain this narrow thread of green space between Edinburgh and East Lothian.
Yours Sincerely,
_______________________________________
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