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Edinburgh Today Portobello Eco-Village |
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Proposals Announced Proposals made by the Portobello Arts Trust, BTOTB ('Big Things on the Beach'), were welcomed by politicians, councillors and residents when they were announced at a public meeting in December 2005. BTOTB's proposals, costing £35m, include: - restoring the promenade to its former glory - building a new pier - creating Scotland's first national maritime centre, with a simulation of the seabed of the Firth of Forth. BTOTB hope to receive up to £25m funding towards these proposals from the lottery Living Landmarks program. If the lottery bid is successful, building work could begin in 2007. Portobello previously had a pier from 1871 until 1917. The new scheme is being promoted under the slogan Re-aPier. This article appeared in the Edinburgh Evening News under the heading: " Pier we go again at Portobello."
[Edinburgh Evening News, December
9,
2005, p.3]
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