Demolition workers taking down the former GRO warehouse buildings at 35 Station Road, Corstorphine, have removed the entire length of the boundary / retaining wall between that site and The Paddockholm estate next door.
As a result the ground alongside the roadway next to no. 25 Station Road is collapsing. The photograph below shows the soil perceptibly easing away from the kerb stones after the heavy rains over the past weekend of 7th / 8th June 2014.
The next photograph below, taken from the demolition site, shows the other side to the roadway / shrubbery with the Tesco carrier bag marking the location of the previous shot. Note the appreciable change in ground level.
The next two photographs provide an impression of the way in which the shrubbery and its roots have been undercut and the associated slumping of soil.
Finally, this last photograph taken farther along the same roadway shows the ground adjacent to it has almost completely gone aided, at least in part, by the recent deluge with gravity doubtless accounting for the rest. A strip of communal land approximately 1.2 metres wide belonging to the proprietors of The Paddockholm estate has been largely lost here, and along the length of the now obliterated boundary line.
Clearly, if this process is allowed to continue the road itself is likely to be undermined, if it has not already been so that is, and as a consequence might well collapse under the weight of any vehicle(s)?
NB This is the Emergency Services alternate access to The Paddockholm estate of 122 houses and flats so must surely remain serviceable at all times?