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Craigmillar charities to fight council eviction at Court of Session

31 August
  • Craigmillar charities will fight their council eviction order at the Court of Session

A group of Craigmillar charities are to have their day in court, after the Capacity Building Project won a hearing at the Court of Session fight a decision by City of Edinburgh Council to evict them from their offices.

The move comes after a long battle starting in December 2008 when the council wrote to the Capacity Building Project, a support organisation for community groups that run the Craigmillar Settlement community centre, saying that all the organisations occupying the centre would be evicted.
Campaigners say that this goes against conditions set when the council took over the building in 1938, which stated that it must be used for 'social, educational or recreational purposes.' The council is planning to move its social services department into the building.

CBP has now secured a four-day hearing starting on Tuesday 30th November at the Court of Session. The group will receive free legal support from The Faculty of Advocates, the representative body for Scottish trial lawyers.

A spokesman for the group said that the hearing would cost the council up to £50,000 on top of costs already incurred during the dispute.

The centre was built in 1934 by Edinburgh University students and who raised £54,000 to build what became known as 'the college' and a major hub of the community. In 1962 it became the headquarters of the Craigmillar Festival Society.

You can read more on this story here on the Third Sector website.

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3 September | 8:51:55

Johnni Stanton says

"The centre was built in 1934 by Edinburgh University students and who raised £54,000 to build what became known as 'the college' and a major hub of the community. In 1962 it became the headquarters of the Craigmillar Festival Society."

 

Whoever wrote that bit is very, very wrong! 

£54,000 in the 1930s??  In today's money that would be £1,996,920.00. 

I suspect someone has misread that amount and it is probably closer to £4,000 or less.  And the Settlement was never a major hub of community life. It lay unused and empty more often than not ... mostly due to whether the caretaker(s) cared or not!

And the Craigmillar Festival Society was constituted in 1970. Prior to that it was the Craigmillar Festival Committee, which met in Peffermill School, the Social Work Centre in Greendykes Road ... and the The Settlement (bottom rooms only) in 1971. They only got the run of the whole building by the mid-70s, and really brough it into community life.

The CFS, by the way, was born in 1964. With Helen Crummy as its first secretary, it grew out of the vacuum that was left when all the local Gala days died out in the 50s.

All of this information will be readily available on the Craigmillar Community Arts website, which will be launched at the next Archive Exhibition on St Andrews Night in November!

Watch this space for details. 

 

 

 

 

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