Talk Porty ~ Portobello

mr magnolia

How many votes do we get?
Is it stv or some other proportional representation? Or just cast a vote and add them up?

mr magnolia

rosa wrote:Or the pavement the causeway

The pavement is causey setts here though but?

http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/searc ... &id=186829

mr magnolia

just looking through this thread, and I wonder what happens if/when the local interest groups are reduced to 7, and there needs to be a choice between the 12 registered groups?

Do we have a quiz night? A second election question? Council decides?

mr magnolia

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-s ... d-19660391

mr magnolia

Thus, if I were the Council, I'd be wanting to review the evidence for CG again and, if there's the slightest possibility it might not be, finding out whether it's possible to "un-concede" and let the Supreme Court decide? From a laymans perspective, I would suggest that 'un-conceding' is surely an...

mr magnolia

Thanks Marya, I had read the text above, and just wondered when the golf course changed the origional park, and it seems without full backing of locals, at that time did it's status change. the whole of this tragic farce seems to hinge around the Common Good status of the land, a status that CEC de...

mr magnolia

neilking wrote:
That report of January 2008 and decision of counsel referred to there seem to me to be fairly crucial documents.

I should say so!
No shame left in being wrong about the common good status in January 2008, if being wrong means that work can proceed.

mr magnolia

Did people think the Council were clearly wrong when Lady Dorrian agreed with them? They weren't wrong then, but another lot seem to have said that they are. Which they made fairly clear. And would all this go away as an issue if indeed the land is NOT common good land, but just a chunk of land own...

mr magnolia

I think the council were clearly wrong then to think it made no difference if the land is common good, as the court (or one bit of it) seems to think it does. I'll have to have a look more closely at andywitemans reasoning to understand why it wouldn't be clever to get it clear as to whether it is o...

mr magnolia

The problem is not the Primo (which was rendered meaningless by Section 17 of the Abolition of Feudal Tenure (Scotland) Act 2000) but the fact that the Council has conceded that the park is inalienable common good which means (as decided by yesterday's court decision) that, while the Council could ...

mr magnolia

Sexto. That if my said disponees or their foresaids shall act contrary to any of the reservations, conditions, provisions and declarations herein expressed then this Feu Right and all that may have followed upon the same shall become void and null and the said area or piece of ground hereby dispone...

mr magnolia

so we need to find him or his forsaids, agree with them that CEC can have the land back once it reverts to the forsaids following the start of building works, and then start building!

mr magnolia

as a slight aside, I see from the Lothian results in the Evening News that 8 or 9 wards across the region have councillors elected as a result of the STV process (assuming that both the EN and I are correct in our own readings of the bits of info available. Not a strong bet to be recommended). And ...

mr magnolia

so if I dont pick the first past the the post winner as MY first choice, then none of my second and third and fourth preferences make a blind bit of difference? That means I should gamble on who will be first, put them first even if I dont want them, and then do my ranking of thos I do want.... your...

mr magnolia

hmm thanks Bazza, I think! tell me, at the first time a candidate gets knocked out, does the system average EVEYONES second choice, or as seems to be the case from my reading of your words and the voting figures, just those whose first vote was for MC? And later on, whilst at stage 6 or so, whose 6t...

mr magnolia

Here's the full data: http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/7405/ward_17-portobello_craigmillar-election_results At stage 7, David Walker beat Peter McColl by 227 votes. At that stage, 981 votes had been dropped because people didn't have a preference. any chance of an explanation of ho...

mr magnolia

I demand a recount.
And a proper public briefing on how to use your preferences in a preventive manner.
Congrats to MC and Mr B. Surprised at it going to the 6thcasting of the runes. Wonder if that's 'usual'?

mr magnolia

Karen millers podcast- alt. country and singer songwriter stuff. Nobody else listened to anything for 3 yrs or so?

mr magnolia

I see that the Evening News photo feature of this years P7s will be (coincidentally, I assume) running on 23 and 24 May. Another lost years children highlighted in glorious colour. For shame.

mr magnolia

thanks too, lg - I had been wondering myself how to respond to the email from PCC. Some good thoughts there.
I wonder how many emails they got?

mr magnolia

interesting stuff - a belated thanks for that link. portobello beach - killed by engineers in the support of commerce, and restored by engineers in support of the councils coffers. Interesting that the restoration of the beach for pleasure purposes is not mentioned as a factor in the planning at all...

mr magnolia

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 ...

mr magnolia

Epykat wrote:
mr magnolia wrote:Greetings, earthlets.

(happy ones - too early for tears)
Where have you been hiding?

ah, life, you know. kind of gets in the way.

mr magnolia

Greetings, earthlets.

(happy ones - too early for tears)

mr magnolia

tip one: keep tight hold of the childer when scrambling around the Sagrada Familia. I've been up it twice and each time I've been convinced I am going to fall out of the thing - I've never before seen such a 'thin' stone building, with such big spaces available to the casual visitor to walk through!

mr magnolia

its gonna dig up the bits that missed out last time - its about equality of opportunity!

mr magnolia

Schools building plan announced

is this connected with us in Porty at all? I'm struggling to keep up with all the non-happenings re schools and funding.

mr magnolia

Secondly, no members of the public have demanded an open space audit. This initiative has come purely from the council so that they can identify open space they can develop extract from letter. I think this is playing politics a step too far. As I understand it, its a statutory requirement for all ...

mr magnolia

You'll not get an answer to the substance of your issue, then Bob - you're going to get a washing-machine's worth of spin wrapped up in details of numbers and chat about engagement and community linkages etc etc.

Keep going though but!

mr magnolia

You seem very annoyed at the council/education department. As far as I can see they have made an introduction to non-curricular learning/support service, that's all they've done. They didn't pass over a single name and address. They did however use the trust between school / parents / teachers and ...

mr magnolia

A nice big High School.

Perhaps not too far from the sea....

mr magnolia

How long is this thread now?

mr magnolia

After School Club all back up and running again as normal this week!

mr magnolia

Just heard that due to damage to the roof of Towerbank Annexe over the last weekend, the building is CLOSED for this week while repairs are carried out. This means No pre-school nursery and No After School Club able to operate this week. This is obviously not an official announcement, but I have jus...

mr magnolia

The Dog will never let you down. You would make an excellent secret agent.

How true (allegedly)

I'm sure the calendar I looked at last week said I was a snake though....[/url]

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