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Article: Unbuckle green belt stifling city

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October 13, 2009
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THERE are very few issues which are guaranteed to raise hackles in and around Edinburgh, but any suggestion of development on the city's sacrosanct green belt can cause apoplexy among usually sober citizens.

I say sacrosanct, yet the green belt is anything but. The Royal Infirmary and the new Bioquarter at Little France, the Royal Bank headquarters and its associated buildings and roads at Gogarburn, and of course the city bypass all around Edinburgh - they were all developed on greenfield sites, if not all on actual designated green belt land.

What would Edinburgh rather have had? The old Royal Infirmary falling down? The Royal Bank moving to Glasgow? No direct link between the M8 and A1 ...

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