Last night in the City Chambers, the Cockburn Association celebrated its first 150 years of campaigning to preserve and enhance the best of the capital's built and natural environments.
Members, supporters, local politicians and other interested invitees gathered to hobnob, listen to 3 speakers, and turn burgundy-red in the maroon glow of overly generous Edinburgh Council central heating.
Planning officers recommend approving plans to develop the 2.7 ha former Royal Bank of Scotland site between Dundas St and King George V Park.
Orion Capital proposals include spending £250m to develop commercial space, 315 new homes (108 of them ‘affordable’) and purpose-built student accommodation for 591 people.
My walk from Stockbridge toward Leith began not by the river but on a tangent: a gentle wander along Heriot Row and past the Scotland Street Little Library, a charming, if chronologically confusing, trove containing the latest Spurtle alongside ‘vintage’ issues from early 2012.
Continuing along East Claremont Street, the morning’s rhythm broke only when a hearse emerged from Claremont Crescent: a sharp, unexpected moment of reflection.
In Edinburgh state schools. New term begins on 6 January.
Full agenda will be made available nearer the time.
Online meeting. Agenda is HERE.
Helen Brown will talk about 'Mills on the Water of Leith'.
By our estimation, there were crocks of gold in Canonmills and Montgomery Street Park.
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E.C.F. Omni S.A.R.L., owners of the OMNi Centre, have applied to install 3 temporary food kiosks and a temporary coffee cart outside the south-west end of the building, facing Picardy Place (25/06189/FUL).