So the moneyed folk who follow rugby get their way, the rest of the city lose a good central facility at Meadowbank.
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Meadowbank was always to be removed that decision was taken long before any rugby activity.
They want the land for housing.
But yes the east side of edinburgh is being cheated as it becomes less and less an area of employment and more and more just for housing.
Along with the relocation of jobs to the west side of the city and further afield I can see the day when there will be no employment either on the east side of the city or indeed the east in general.

and what about the Velodrome ? Not being replaced I believe SCANDAL !

#1
Yes, compare this turnaround with the so-called Caltongate development which has a lot of opposition.

Why can't Meadowbank be flattened & rebuilt on? Seems the best solution for all. But there again all simple plans are to easy.

We don't need another stadium.

#6 - blackley - Exactly.

How often is Murrayfield stadium used every year?

Unless Hearts hire it out, I doubt it is used much more than half a dozen times a year - A handful of rugby matches and a pop concert or two.

This is just a multi-million pound waste of money.

#6
Speak for yourself , Old Chap.
I was trying to give them up myself.

Meadowbank has been inline for demolition for years, it's all about the money, private developers are going to pay alot more for Meadowbank than they will ever pay for Sighthill!

I beleive that we do need new sports facilities in the City, most are so old it would be cheaper to replace than it would be to maintain and the proposal that the council has/ re-thinking does sound good, still i'm not sure about the location, butstill think Meggetland was a waste and should have been planned alot better to accomodate Edinburgh Rugby.

Donald Anderson has the temerity to utter the word Meggetland - now a modern day euphemism for civic farce - when embarrassingly there's still outstanding issues to resolve there. Perhaps after May when the new administration seek to investigate this disgrace, and some searching questions are asked, his chutzpah might not be quite so evident.

Yet another cock-up in my home city - more though goes into civic planning here.

7# Murayfield is not amd never has cost you anthing it is owned by the SRU.
If you want facilities you should pay for them

Out of the ruins
Out from the wreckage
Can't make the same mistake this time
We are the children
The last generation
We are the ones they left behind
And I wonder when we are ever gonna change it
Living under this council till nothing else remains

We don't need another stadium
We don't need to build on Sighthill land
All we want is a park for our kids and their dogs

Looking for something we can rely on
There's got to be something better out there
They say Meadowbank's finished
All else are stadiums built in the air
And I wonder when we are ever gonna change it
Living under this coun cil till nothing else remains
All the children say

We don't need another Stadium
We don't need to build on Sighthill land
All we want is a park for our kids and their dogs

*apologies to Tina Turner

Do they know how windy it is up at Sighthill? There won't be many tries converted, I suspect!

They should build in the Meadows the skatepark which had been proposed in Inverleith Park and then opposed by residents...

#3 and what about the Velodrome ? Not being replaced I believe SCANDAL

It was a scandal first time round (1970) when they tried to renege on the velodrome because of costs. The velodrome that was eventually built was a shadow of the original plan that was agreed. Perhaps it the present crop of trackies changed their names to Wayne 'spud face' Rooney, Gaza or Beckham they might get more official recognition.

Sounds fishy... similar to Murrayfield ?

I wonder if this is Ross Finnie (Lib Dem Councillor) lining up Murrayfield Stadium for demolition, after all you don't need 2 Rugby Stadiums. And I wonder if Ross Finnie has been siding with the SRU and Developers against the Edinburgh flood victims, possibly deliberately delaying the building of the Water Of Leith flood defenses thru appeals. What can a politician possibly gain from such developers?

Does he plan on staying quiet about it till after the elections in May and announcing the new property developments at Murrayfield once elected back in, will the press be brave enough to push him for an answer, is he part of the development team within the council?

Of course this is all conjecture and the SRU have no intentions of developing waste land or appealling against the flood defenses with the backing of Ross Finnie (Lib Dem Councillor)?

I challenge the press to put these questions to Ross Finnie and the SRU. No doubt they'll shy away from any answers.

It would be a shame to lose Murrayfield as it is the best stadium in scotland bar none.

It is just a pity the SFA who have had so much subsidy cannot just let go of shamden as it is a hole.

**13 great....do you think this is sending the residents of the city mad....radio scotland recorded an hour long programme about SOOT then pulled it the day of the revised masterplan going before committee on the 5th October, saying it was too complicated for listeners???We got this memento from them ...
http://www.myspace.com/sootsingers

the Council own Meadowbank and they are planning to sell it and site something of the order of 800+ houses there. bound to be some money in that for the favourite developers of the Councillors.
one thing you can always say about Edinburgh Councillors the're the best that money can buy. they are so twisted that when they die they are not cremated they just have a slot cut in their head and screw'd into the ground.