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Published Date: 07 July 2008
A LANDMARK gas tower is set to be pulled down, despite a campaign to save it as a piece of local history.
Campaigners had hoped to retain the 106-year-old Granton gas tower as a memorial to the area's past.

But owners National Grid have now submitted an application to the city council requesting permission to demolish the historic tower.

The move came after a report suggested it would cost more than £7 million to keep the tower.

The distinctive blue structure was granted special protected status by Historic Scotland in 1998 to avoid the threat of it being ripped down without permission.

Despite that, National Grid has always maintained that the structure is in such a poor state that the only realistic option is for it to be demolished.





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  • Last Updated: 07 July 2008 11:11 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Buttress,

07/07/2008 12:22:04
It's Grade B listed and should be retained.

So just say NO.
2

Buttress,

07/07/2008 12:23:30
And the cost includes cleaning up the site which has to be done anyhow, and the rest of the claimed cost is disputable.
3

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07/07/2008 12:36:46
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Buttress,

07/07/2008 13:21:27
I think it beautiful. I say keep it.
5

jambo1,

07/07/2008 13:54:33
I came back to Edinburgh just over a couple of months ago for a visit, my god I hate all the changes that there has been to the city, this tower that the owners want to pull down, why for god sake? its a part of our history isn't it? surely it cant be in such a state that it can not be put right again, there are too many changes to the city, and to be honest, Edinburgh is losing its historic feel and look now sorry to say
6

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07/07/2008 14:18:07
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Brian the Barbarian.,

the slums of granton 07/07/2008 21:31:11
Ah tink that it shood be krept as a simbol of protest aganst the deprived.

maney local people shot up on H for the furst time in iz shadow and ah spent many a happy evening feelin up ma sister there.

From a histroic point of vwew they shood also have kept the ferry at Queenzferry an bring back the trams.
8

Julian.,

edinburgh 08/07/2008 01:37:56
#5 Jambo 1

The gas flats were part of our history as well. Should we have kept them?
9

Gina Gibson,

Wales 11/07/2008 06:05:11
It's an eyesore...pull it down or rebuild it in Buttress's back garden!
10

Charles Linskaill,

Edinburgh 09/08/2009 22:52:07

I agree with Buttress re:#1,

Just say a Big-Fat-NO!!
Repair and Preserve, this Historic Landmark, which has soo much History to tell.

11

Matt there,

Somewhere 23/08/2009 01:33:49
Too much is lost because of small-minded people like those in charge of National Grid.
12

El Franko,

31/08/2009 21:15:16
The sooner it goes the better. What a shocking waste of money if any is spent on keeping it there. Pay a photographer for a day's worth of picture, and then pull the thing down so that the site may be made as useful again as it once was

 

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