New Nursery

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 01 Feb 2004, 21:51

Back again to the subject of planning!
Heard through the grapevine - since yet again we, as neighbours to a planned new development, were not informed by the Council or anybody else - that the new nursery on the site of the old garden centre will probably be going ahead. The day after this I walked down Bellfield Street to find a notice on a lampost outside the Church informing the residents of the plans! Correct me if I'm wrong but I really do think the people on the High Street (whose gardens back right onto the site) and the residents of Bellfield Lane (whose lives will once again be disrupted by MORE traffic) were maybe the ones to inform rather than people two streets away! Is this yet another developer trying to get permission by sneaking in the back door? Obviously nobody on the High Street will object because nobody on the High Street knew! Isn't there a wee man from the Council who comes round and checks that these notices have been put up in the proper place - or indeed that they haven't been removed before anyone has a chance to see them? I don't particularly have a problem with this Nursery (a two storey building and 60 children Monday-Friday) but the way they have gone about it really gets my back up.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 02 Feb 2004, 16:24

We received a letter informing us of this new nursery a couple of months back

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 06 Feb 2004, 00:09

We certainly didn't and neither did the neighbours on either side of us, or another friend who lives at the top of Bellfield Lane. In fact, we're still waiting for notification of the proposal to build the five flats which now adorn the bottom of our garden!!! How's that for democracy LOL!!

j allison · Post by **j allison** » 14 Feb 2004, 17:30

Regarding the new nursery in Bellfield Lane it is going ahead and will be open this autumn.
We can assure you that we followed the planning procedure for neighbour notification. All relevant properties were notified, including those on Portobello High Street.
I can only assume that your property is not on our boundary and the top of Bellfield Lane did not require to be notified.
It is the council who are responsible for putting signs up in the street, not the applicant.
Sorry to 'get your back up', we are not 'another developer trying to get permission by sneaking in the back door' and are pleased to have had our application granted for 60 children.

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 16 Feb 2004, 12:51

And we're pleased that something is being done with another empty site.

I agree - it probably was the Council getting it wrong again. Surely the people in Bellfield Lane should have been notified? I presume you will be using the lane to get into the back of the site and I can also put money on it that the people using your Nursery will be using Bellfield Lane to either park or drop off. There were definitely no public notices displayed on the High Street at this end and had we not heard through the grapevine about this development we wouldn't have known anything about it and were therefore not given the opportunity to object even it we'd wanted to.

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 08 Jul 2004, 17:02

Anybody know what's happening with this Nursery? We thought it was opening in the Autumn but nothing's been started on the site as yet.

Beach Babe · Post by **Beach Babe** » 08 Jul 2004, 18:19

don't know anything formally but when I enquired about places at the nursery that's moving there, they thought it would be into the new year before it was built

smartirving · Post by **smartirving** » 16 Jul 2004, 21:33

I think the Nursery is a lovely idea.I would rather listen to 6o
happy little children than the hundreds of mating seagulls dont you agree? [/b]

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 17 Jul 2004, 19:00

smartirving wrote:I think the Nursery is a lovely idea.I would rather listen to 6o
happy little children than the hundreds of mating seagulls dont you agree? [/b]

Or hundreds of mating cows even?

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 24 Jul 2004, 19:36

Does anyone know what is happening at the nursery site, I woke up this morning to see two caravans parked on the site...

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 24 Jul 2004, 20:43

I can see them too. I thought maybe they were letting the kids have a wee holiday before they started building

I think they probably belong to the people who're building the flats in the lane, but I might be wrong.

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 14 Jun 2005, 21:33

Seems to be movement on the Nursery site. Been woken two mornings in a row by the joyful beeping of reversing machinery

Oh joy - another Summer in the garden blighted by building work - third in a row. Never mind, it'll probably be raining anyway.......

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 14 Jun 2005, 21:39

Epykat wrote:Seems to be movement on the Nursery site. Been woken two mornings in a row by the joyful beeping of reversing machinery Oh joy - another Summer in the garden blighted by building work - third in a row. Never mind, it'll probably be raining anyway.......

Sounds like its going to be fab tho. And you may get to view "workman's crack" every now and again, have a diet coke and chill.

Is Isapcdum within earshot of the reversing machinery?

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 14 Jun 2005, 21:44

I do believe it's RIGHT AT THE BOTTOM of his garden

I won't quite get the joy of workmen's bottoms from my vantage point, but I must say, I am so looking forward to that continual beeping noise from the reversing diggers not to mention the choice language that usually goes with it. As I sit under my parasol sheltering from the rain it will be so peaceful (especially, I've found, at the point where the roof goes on - all the hammering of slates.....)as the building noise merges with the barking dog over the wall.......Anyone got an ESPC?

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 14 Jun 2005, 21:50

Epykat lamented

I won't quite get the joy of workmen's bottoms from my vantage point

Off you get to Woodwares and buy a ladder!!

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 14 Jun 2005, 21:54

I could always go to Sandra and Bearcub's vantage point with my binoculars

(and earmuffs)

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 14 Jun 2005, 22:09

Epykat wrote:I could always go to Sandra and Bearcub's vantage point with my binoculars (and earmuffs)

If the standard of workmen is anything like the ones currently working outside my office window, I wouldn't bother with the binoculars...not a pretty site. I keep looking every day though just in case there's any new apprentices

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 14 Jun 2005, 22:16

OoooH. I remember when they were doing our walkway at work there was a real Diet Coke guy who had us so-called ladies getting all het up!! Especially as it was a hot summer ......... and he had to take his t-shirt off!

Great thing was that our drooling annoyed the heck of the [heterosexual] males in the place!!

Mmmmmmmmmmmm!

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 14 Jun 2005, 22:18

Poppy wrote:OoooH. I remember when they were doing our walkway at work there was a real Diet Coke guy who had us so-called ladies getting all het up!! Especially as it was a hot summer ......... and he had to take his t-shirt off!

Great thing was that our drooling annoyed the heck of the [heterosexual] males in the place!!

Mmmmmmmmmmmm!

Hetros at the ROS, are you certain?

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 14 Jun 2005, 22:22

[quote="Porty]Heteros at the ROS, are you certain?[/quote]

Watch it, you!! ............... There are at least four - El P(Rtd), Ali (I think!!), my ex-hubby, and the "late" Alex Morrice. And a not a few PHS FP RFC members!!!!

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 14 Jun 2005, 22:24

Poppy wrote:[quote="Porty]Heteros at the ROS, are you certain?

Watch it, you!! ............... There are at least four - El P(Rtd), Ali (I think!!), my ex-hubby, and the "late" Alex Morrice. And a not a few PHS FP RFC members!!!![/quote]

You had to count a dead guy to make up the numbers?

Or are you referrring to his time keeping

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 14 Jun 2005, 22:24

You doth protest too much, i fear.

However, i didnt know you had been previously married? Surprise, surprise.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 14 Jun 2005, 22:29

foxy wrote:
Poppy wrote:[quote="Porty]Heteros at the ROS, are you certain?
Watch it, you!! ............... There are at least four - El P(Rtd), Ali (I think!!), my ex-hubby, and the "late" Alex Morrice. And a not a few PHS FP RFC members!!!!

You had to count a dead guy to make up the numbers?

Or are you referrring to his time keeping

[/quote]

Foxy, sorry, a sort of old POL in-joke. Alex was a POLer but there was a falling out that we won't go into!!

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 14 Jun 2005, 22:31

Poppy wrote: Foxy, sorry, a sort of old POL in-joke. Alex was a POLer but there was a falling out that we won't go into!!

Gotcha

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 14 Jun 2005, 22:32

Bad Foxy!!

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 14 Jun 2005, 22:36

Porty wrote:You doth protest too much, i fear.

However, i didnt know you had been previously married? Surprise, surprise.

I'm going to regret this question, but ... why the surprise??!!

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 15 Jun 2005, 09:24

Poppy wrote: I'm going to regret this question, but ... why the surprise??!!

No reason other than I didnt know and its never been mentioned in your company. Calm down dear.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 24 Sep 2005, 13:35

The nursery is well taking shape now and its huge, I pity the folks who live spitting distance from it - they have no view and no light.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 24 Sep 2005, 14:44

Sandra wrote:The nursery is well taking shape now and its huge, I pity the folks who live spitting distance from it - they have no view and no light.

And imagine the noise that will be generated by 30 or 40 little darlings!

And being a nursery, they'll be open every day bar a couple at Xmas and New Year so no respite in the school hols.

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 25 Sep 2005, 16:37

That's it ecm......rub it in

On the up side though, they might drown out the constantly barking dog and the mini motorbike that zips up and down the lane for hours at a time - or.......the krakatoke machine that comes out in the summer

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 27 Sep 2005, 22:25

It's getting bigger by the minute. How's it from your side Sandra?

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 28 Sep 2005, 09:22

massive

at least we can still see the sky...

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 01 Oct 2005, 21:21

Lucky you! It's getting very cosy - we'll have a microclimate all of our own shortly

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 02 Oct 2005, 15:39

Its awesome, makes me feel like having some more kids.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 02 Oct 2005, 16:51

No way!

I guess it is ok as it doesn't have many windows and won't be used 24/7 and is just as high and wide as the building that is there the now.

But its still massive.