No doubt there were loud cheers when McBurgher’s announced their intention to locate a new drive-through just down the road. And what better place to locate it? Although Dumbar isn’t quite the Drive Thru Town it used to be, more Drive Past, it is now officially a Take-Away and Throw-Away Town with a critical mass of cheap eateries and woeful food business recycling rates. Anyway some say this is exactly what the locality was missing – another take-away joint. As every schoolgirl knows easy access to fast food encourages better health, slimmer waist-lines (no pun intended), a better quality tourism, higher levels of inward investment and is a key motivator for homebuyers. Except none of this is true. I am reliably informed that a new home in Tranent will fetch a premium price, while in Dumbar it goes for below the average. Location isn’t everything, or maybe it is?
Author: templar
passionate about the new and the old, but only if it is any good
L’Odore della Notte (the smell of the night)
Rotting seaweed with or without a blend of sewage can be malodorous, especially at this time of year, more so if its disturbed. And because coastal strandlines extend right into our coastal towns, some people don’t like it.
But is it right to sanitise the shore completely and muck up a habitat? Continue reading L’Odore della Notte (the smell of the night)
4 more days
So East Lothian Council is running a series of consultation and action planning events as part of its wider ‘East Lothian on the Move’ active and sustainable transport initiative. If like me you missed the bus, there’s a few days left to respond. Respond now.
Cockenzie House Development
So the controversial revived plans to build a care home in the grounds of Cockenzie House have slipped through, with the casting vote in favour by one Norman Hampshire, not terribly well known for espousing traditional labour views. Not surprisingly, with strong objections from the community and authorities like Historic Scotland, many will be dismayed by the inability of the committee to reflect its constituents views.
You’d think there’d be plenty of places in around the locality to plonk a 60-bed home in the workaday cheap 80s style, as developers today are want. First you identify a site which is in a sensitive area, currently under multiple occupancy and clearly having some useful community and wider benefits. Then you put forward a daft plan, cobbled together by a draughtsman or architectural technician, presumably as proper architects are too expensive. You then surreptitiously submit the plans in the summer recess when everyone is on their hols.