Joined up thinking

Gawd, it's been a long day - just in (9pm) and been on the go since 7.45am - decided it would be too easy just to not bother with the blog but this is where my steely discipline kicks in...

PEP's AGM today: nearly 40 people there and Malcolm as the guest speaker. He speaks well -even if we do not always see eye to eye there is no question that on his day he can put the words together: he is also locally popular.

Then on to the Council for meeting after meeting after meeting - all of which went well: tomorrow is the Economic Development Committee and I think there may be fireworks about the Newbridge issue: if ever there was a case of bureaucratic stonewalling then it is this.

Depressing news though about the Waterfront company - the price of land is dropping like a stone, the cost of remedial infrastrucure is rising and is now beyond the investment value of the private developer - this is bad for North Edinburgh. An already very elongated development schedule is about to be stretched into infinity if we are not careful. You would think the Council would want to take advantage of low land values and invest in some affordable housing for which the city is crying out; it would help kickstart the construction industry too but I suppose this is joined up thinking - not something we are particlarly famous for.