Friday, July 29, 2011

SEPA: Putting The Mental In Environmental



The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) have today announced that they're moving some of their staff out of city and town centres and into a building in the Eurocentral industrial estate.


If you don't know Eurocentral, it was built purely because it was next to the M8 Glasgow to Edinburgh motorway. Or, more strictly, the A8 since that stretch isn't actually a motorway. Apparently this means people could drive from all over the country and get to it easily.


As for those relying on public transport, erm...

Ok, that's not strictly fair. There's a peak-hours-only bus service to Coatbridge and Bellshill. And Holytown train station is only 1.5 miles away, claims the Eurocentral website, neglecting to mention that that measurement is as-the-crow-flies and it's actually 2.5 miles if you want to walk or cycle.


I'm struggling to understand SEPA's thinking on this. Staff will be moving from Edinburgh, Perth, Stirling and East Kilbride to a near-inaccessible industrial estate off a motorway. Not so much environmental, more just mental.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, should that not be putting the ment in environment. Because the last time I looked on their website it was the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. Oh no, have the government spent our money on a secret agency that only you know about?