{"id":434335,"date":"2025-09-18T19:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/434335\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T19:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:43:15","slug":"edinburgh-landmark-calton-hill-facing-erosion-emergency-after-grass-cut-too-short-by-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/434335\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh landmark Calton Hill facing &#8216;erosion emergency&#8217; after grass cut too short by council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A conservation charity has said that council workers have caused an \u201cerosion emergency\u201d at Edinburgh\u2019s Calton Hill by cutting the grass too short.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Calton Hill Conservation Trust claims that the erosion of the hill\u2019s top soil has \u201cbeen the worst for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the charity, accompanied by photographs showing large patches of bare, exposed earth, claims that the grass has been cut short on the \u201cassumption that it will regularly rain\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They say that the erosion has also been caused by a combination of a dry summer and high footfall.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a0c0e6a516938631380e6283b5d54223-1758185837.jpeg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"901\"   alt=\"The ground pictured earlier this month\"\/>Calton Hill Conservation Trust via SuppliedThe ground pictured earlier this month Calton Hill Conservation Trust via Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Without rain, the only water brought to the hill is from bowser trucks.<\/p>\n<p>The report read: \u201cErosion is always in areas where the grass has been repeatedly cut short on the assumption that it will regularly rain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no erosion in areas where the grass has not been cut by the local authority. All the erosion is on the top of the hill, not the surrounding slopes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday, you could actually see the earth blowing away in the wind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2e7bacfaff8a0ef6b95676c6268fa120-1758189168.jpeg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"901\"   alt=\"Edinburgh Council has made plans to re-turf, re-seed and improve the walking route.\"\/>Calton Hill Conservation Trust via SuppliedEdinburgh Council has made plans to re-turf, re-seed and improve the walking route. Calton Hill Conservation Trust via Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh Council said it is now making plans to re-turf, re-seed and improve the popular path.<\/p>\n<p>Culture and Communities Convener Margaret Graham said: \u201cWe\u2019re aware of the erosion on Calton Hill and are making plans to re-turf, re-seed and improve the formal path network to control footfall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re also looking to rest areas periodically to reduce any further erosion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758059248_2_whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A conservation charity has said that council workers have caused an \u201cerosion emergency\u201d at Edinburgh\u2019s Calton Hill by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-434335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115227014565307652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}