Hi there –

FoRP are taking a stall at the Saughtonhall Community Association on 16th June and we are looking for photographs to display (and we also need photos for other publicity).

If you have any of the park, park activities, flooding, or whatever, that you think might be interesting and that belong to you and you are happy for FoRP to use them for publicity purposes, please send them to Jane at friendsofroseburnpark@hotmail.co.uk (and it helps if you can say in your email that we can use them for publicity).

Thanks!

The feasibility study for the Roseburn Park Shelter (organised by FoRP and funded by the West Neighbourhood Partnership and the RIAS Scottish Community Projects Fund) is now available for consultation for a period of six weeks.

The report is here: Feasibility Report Roseburn Park Community Shelter

You can leave comments publicly on this post or email FoRP at: friendsofroseburnpark@hotmail.co.uk

Click here to see the brief

From Arup, the engineers:

Dear All,

As part of the Water of Leith Flood Prevention Scheme we are proposing to carry out trial pits at three locations along Roseburn Park Wall to determine the extents of the existing foundation.  Trial pits approximately 1m by 1m and up to 1m deep will be created on either side of the wall at the positions indicated HERE: http://goo.gl/maps/QMqW

It is proposed that the works will be carried out between 8am and 4pm commencing on the 30th July. The works should take no longer than four working days depending on weather conditions. All the excavations will be reinstated in full following completion. No footpath closures will be in place during this time. The excavations will be carried out by hand and therefore no heavy machinery will be in operation during the work.

Should inconsistencies in the wall foundations be found additional trial pits of a similar nature will be carried out along the wall within the time frame provided above.

Works will be carried out in such a way that they will not interrupt normal usage of the park.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments regarding the works that have been described above or if the dates proposed are not suitable.

Following a FoRP AGM enquiry, the City Council have said that the clumping of grass-cuttings has been made worse by the rain and that grass cuttings are not lifted in any park in the city.

The FoRP constitution can be downloaded from the Management Info page of this website.

FoRP’s accounts, presented at the AGM of 17 July 2012 (for financial year end 30 June 2012):

FRIENDS OF ROSEBURN PARK-2011-12 (PDF)

Photograph showing how Council official suggest flood wall against the Murrayfield Stadium park boundary will be faced, following FoRP questioning about this.  Apparently the wall on the left is how it will look facing into the park from the stadium, and the wall on the right is how it will look in Riversdale Crescent.