Yesterday was the first Saturday since the Council passed their motion to support City Square Project and the possible destruction of the beautiful Union Terrace Gardens, in the heart of Aberdeen. It also happened to be the hottest day of the year so far, as a result it was rammed. I was there from 3 till [...]
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This is the post I didn’t want to write, the one I’d been dreading, the words we hoped need never be typed. We lost. Peacock Visual Arts are in dire straits now as their previously approved building, with 75% funding, has been tossed aside by Aberdeen City Councillors in favour of a pipe dream that will [...] April 13th saw the consultation report for the City Square Project finally published: Here though it seems some groups may have had access to it before the rest of us, either that or Aberdeen Journals have the fastest journalists and printing team in the business as a mere hour after it was published online I was [...] I feel sick. Right in the pit of my stomach, a deep discomfort is keeping me awake and making me a bit tetchy. Tomorrow the City Square consultation comes to an end and the fate of our Gardens could be sealed. It’s a very stressful time! Now is our final chance to have a say in what [...] As part of IHEARTUTG, local promoters IMP put together a bill of unplugged musicians to perform for free in the gardens this afternoon. Proof that you don’t need much to bring them to life, just some imagination and the will to do something. A number of artists played with my favourite being Les Pelicans who gave a [...] I ventured into Union Terrace Gardens on Sunday. I was brave, went in all by myself. With all the talk of it being the seedy underbelly of Aberdeen perhaps this was foolhardy, perhaps I was putting myself at risk and perhaps I was going to meet some of the fabled undesirables who supposedly inhabit this dark, [...] The 'underused' Union Terrace Gardens Ok, I promise to put up new pictures of animals and landscapes soon but this is too important to ignore. On the 11th of January Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Future launched their public consultation for the proposed City Square Project in Aberdeen. This project’s aim is to rip out Union [...] BBC article on it: Here And they’ve launched a website for it: Here Artists impression of the proposed City Square Project I particularly like the snappy slogan that they’ve come up with to go alongside the campaign to pour concrete over the Union Terrace Gardens – This Time. This Place. This Generation. – a gift to internet wags [...] |
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