Talk Porty ~ Portobello

joeshmoe

On stage ear witnesses, time and time again, heard DC cajole John Stewart to abandon, citing abusive behaviour by the crowd. She passed him note after note. Then we had Hawkins, she gesticulated to him for about 10 minutes to get up and speak. He did, attempting to launch a carefully calculated gre...

joeshmoe

Can anyone confirm if CEC are definitely pursuing PPAG for the court costs and a bond for the next hearing? They said thy would be but im sure i heard this may not be the case? Financial pressure is the only way they will give up, if CEC aren't pursuing these costs i'll be contacting my Councillor ...

joeshmoe

Can anyone confirm if CEC are definitely pursuing PPAG for the court costs and a bond for the next hearing? They said thy would be but im sure i heard this may not be the case? Financial pressure is the only way they will give up, if CEC aren't pursuing these costs i'll be contacting my Councillor a...

joeshmoe

Can i suggest we ALL contact the Edinburgh councillors again and demand they pursue PPAG for court costs

The reason being is this is all just costing our taxpayer money

joeshmoe

Sigh, let's just get on with the legal hearing and be done with it, that's the endgame here

joeshmoe

Anyone summarise what happened tonight?

joeshmoe

I dont know why the shopkeepers would be bothered about losing business from the ten supporters of PPAG who probably dint shop in Portobello anyway (too far beneath them)

joeshmoe

If I see one more comment that claims that the other schools were not represented last Friday!! Betty W - I don't know who you are, but I don't appreciate your comments. We were there, from Parsons Green, St Johns, Duddingston, and Brunstane, and probably Royal High too although I didn't speak to a...

joeshmoe

Storky- my understanding is PPAG have 14 days to lodge the grounds of their appeal. The council have 28 days to respond. Date for court is indefinite. If I'm reading the signals correctly (MM) the council will respond rapido and will likely already be pressing the courts for an early hearing. There...

joeshmoe

Porty, maybe if you weren't so focussed on building on the park you too could see that the Big W site is ideal. I thought that the suggestion was to keep the park as playing fields. Would that still mean that the area for the school is too small? As I said before, the area is served well with under...

joeshmoe

From Ewan Aitken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear All Please accept my apologies for this general e mail rather than a personal one but I have had so many on this issue it seemed easier to send one to you all You will see fr...

joeshmoe

How long will the Court take to ask for this bond? Weeks, months?

You know whatever happens they will just leave it until the absolute last minute, just wonder when that might be

joeshmoe

Not quite the mass demonstration you were hoping for I guess. I think if you are hoping to persuade PPAG to drop the case by any other means than violence, you might start to think about some kind of charm offensive. Good luck. Are you really prepared to pay what will likely be well over £300k to f...

joeshmoe

So not content with attempting to silence the PPAG, we then had the character assassinations. Now you want to ruin them financially. And this because they have dared to stand up for what they believe in. If you take someone to court and lose you pay costs? PPAG knew this before this started so how ...

joeshmoe

Marya wrote:Marilyne MacLaren spoke at today's demo in the park. Interestingly, not only are the council suing for costs, they will also ask the court to ensure that PPAG put up a bond, in advance of their appeal.

Didn't hear that, the news gets better!

joeshmoe

wangi wrote:A good turn out at the Park - well done all.

Yes, was a brilliant turnout, we're the press there?

joeshmoe

Despite the council pursuing legal costs, I wonder if PPAG will still maintain their appeal? They have enough lunatics in their group to do this! If the costs for the initial appeal end up costing them over 100k, costs for the next one will be even more. They surely do not have the funds What they ...

joeshmoe

Well done Bob

Your efforts are truly appreciated by everyone

joeshmoe

Someone (person or persons) will have brought the legal action (appeal) so assume they'd be the ones who'd be pursued for costs

joeshmoe

I'm certainly not impressed with the response of the local councilors to this matter. Almost five working days and only two acknowledgements. The only decent reply was from Kenny Macaskill! I've requested the email addresses of all the Edinburgh Councilors in a soft format. Perhaps the Councilors i...

joeshmoe

Bob Jefferson wrote:http://local.stv.tv/edinburgh/news/3020 ... egal-bill/

Fantastic news!!

Serves them all right. Few people in PPAG going to be on their phones to lawyers this morning!

joeshmoe

Im sure it said July a few months back *groan*

joeshmoe

Any update on when the exchange will be upgraded?

joeshmoe

Reply from Cllr Maureen Child

I agree, it is disgraceful.

Maureen

joeshmoe

A two year delay would, I imagine, push building costs up . Anyone know if the Council would have to go through the whole tendering process again? If this is the case, then not only should the Council pursue court costs , but should pursue recompense for any additional costs. I can't believe that P...

joeshmoe

I've had a response from Kenny Macaskill Thank you for copying me in to your e mail. I am sorry to read that. I was with Peigi McArthur and senior pupils earlier today. Though feelings run deep in the community the time for debate has passed and the time for construction has arrived. It’s for the co...

joeshmoe

Sopeh
Write to your councillor and copy Kenny MacAskill, I have, others have and if we all do, get something in the press etc then the pressure is on them to go after these people for costs.

joeshmoe

I get the feeling this may be the straw that breaks the camels back, parents have had enough of this now, myself included. I was ok with them appealing once on whatever tenuous grounds they used but to deliberately leave it so late and now to rsk a further delay of TWO YEARS, when the appeal Judge e...

joeshmoe

If they do lodge an appeal and two years is the delay i really think some sort of action group should be mobilized to lobby the council to go after them for fees and start exerting real pressure on these old farts. It's nigh on disgraceful what they are doing to the children who will miss out on tho...

joeshmoe

If they are appealing i'd urge everyone to fight for them to have to pay costs for the initial case. They are basically doing all this at little expense, knowing full well they wont win. My guess is if the Council pursue them for costs they wont have the funds to take this any further

joeshmoe

What's our councillors email address, I'd like to write to them to ask for costs to be claimed as well

joeshmoe

If there us no challenge (and given PPAG's track record they'll leave anything till the last minute) then the Council will most likely approve the contract at their April meeting. They did however approve £200,000 towards initial works to speed up the process if successful in court, so they could s...

joeshmoe

seanie wrote:Not heard anything. May not know for sure till Thursday.

Whats the timeline now then, when can/will CEC actually get on and start building?

21c the last 2 days and seen about 2 people in this so called 'green space'

joeshmoe

how long do they have to object given the Council want to start building works asap?

and surely there is little chance of them raising this 80k, who's going to stump up for a lost cause with no legal footing?

joeshmoe

Akin to building on the meadows - what a total pile of piss. If you think that park is anything like the Meadows you obviously haven't been there. I've NEVER seen any family sitting in that park enjoying a summer picnic, ive never seen people flying kites, ive never seen organised events Its a glor...

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