Lido plan sunk as leaseholder fences off waterfront area
Granton Improvement Society have reacted angrily to news that the site they had earmarked for a lido has been reclaimed by it’s leaseholder – and it’s not the city council!
In a statement on their website, GIS said:
“Is it at all possible that City of Edinburgh Council could believe it owned some scrub land that was a fly tipping area, to make new parking spaces a realigned cycle path and a picnic area for visitors to the world-renowned Waterfront Promenade on the greatest waterfront regeneration there is -only to find that having spent £250k doing it they actually don’t own it and it is part of the lease of the industrial site next to it!
“The owner of that site has exercised his legal right to the land and just erected a fence so enclosing the parking spaces and picnic area and blocking of the “new’ cycle path. This is not a JOKE it has actually happened at Granton beach the beginning of the cycle path to Cramond. It was also going to be the site of the new Granton on Sea Lido – now what?”
Described by one on member of GIS in appropriately salty language as an ‘absolute **** up’ it’s understood the council is in negotiations with the leaseholder to seek a solution – we’ll keep you posted.
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