Golf Courses to be turned into Allotments.

[CliveW]

Golf courses in Edinburgh could be turned into allotments because of a fall in the number playing the game.

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh/City-tees-up-plan-to.5706275.jp

 

[birdieman]

Commence rant....

Those dung and cabbage loving types are likely just a bunch of city yuppies who want to spend an hour a weekend trying to be Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and will give up when they realise there is some graft to it. They are all probably members of private golf clubs already.

They need to realise that affordable golf for the common man is far more important than their desire to be part of an 'organic' tv driven gardening fad.

You can't live in a £500k city centre apartment and expect to be a gardener can you? Talk about having your cake and eating it!

Alas could be curtains for the golf however, this is Edinburgh Council we're talking about after all.......not known for their great decision making are they

Hope the golfers fight it anyway.

 

[Dodger]

Some of the tracks could be already mistaken for allotments....

 

[stevek1969]

I think our green keeper has already started . Hopefully its better this week if not i'll start the carrot planting

 

[Marko77]

Keep the public courses open!

If anything buy the land off Turnhouse GC and use that.

(yes - only cos I played it poorly)

 

[backwoodsman]

Blimey, but birdieman don't half seem to have it in for "allotmenteers" or whatever your call them. Down south here, folk are prepared to wait 10 years to get one and when they do, don't give it up till they're dead.

That's in no way to say golf courses should be turned into allotments though. Whoever prefers gardening to golf is just daft.

 

[alan_h]

I play at one of the courses in question - Braid Hills - which is by far the best of the Edinburgh munis and has a fair old history. They could never get rid of the the Braids. Nothing but gorse bushes grow at the altitude anyway! If only they'd look after it a bit better.

I believe Portobello is under threat already as they're planning to build a new school on it.

 

[Tommo21]

Some of the tracks could be already mistaken for allotments....

Get stuff for a pot of soup on the way round. Need a tour bag.

 

[USER1999]

I enjoyed Braid Hills. It's got some nice holes. Can't get rid of that one surely?

 

[Adi2Dassler]

I believe Portobello is under threat already as they're planning to build a new school on it.

Not entirely accurate.The school is being built on the football pitches adjacent to the golf course, the GC is safe.As for the story above, it's a bit of 2+2=5 I reckon.No danger they will scrap golf courses for allotments, they'll just hand over some green belt land instead.