Unesco are in Edinburgh today to review the World Heritage status awarded to the city in 1995. It’s a disgrace that it has reached such a point. Some of the developments going up in and around Edinburgh in recent years have been scandalous. The Caltongate development is not fit to grace this beautiful city.
Read the story on the BBC News web site
I remember a few years ago when fire gripped the old town and the fire brigade fought all night and into the next day to stop the fire reaching the Royal Mile, where it would have spread uncontrollably through the old medieval buildings. It seems that greed and bungs to certain people may finally manage what the fire failed to do and put paid to Edinburgh’s world heritage status.
One thing confuses the hell out of me though. How can any proposed replacement for St James Centre be any worse than the current building. It’s a concrete and metal eyesore, resplendent with it’s “Bridge to nowhere”.
Get it knocked.
on Nov 12th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Say what you like about the St James Centre. At least it hid New St Andrew’s House.