As you read this, advance copies of the July Spurtle are already wafting across the barony like grains of birch pollen spreading joy and optimism wherever they fall.
Issue 363 begins with high hopes of a new owner, the dim view of a glazed look, and the vague possibility of a sodden addition to one sun-filled corner of Bellevue Central. We bid farewell to a friend and founder member of this publication.
The Reporter acting for the Scottish Government’s Planning and Environmental Appeals Division has issued a Notice of Intention regarding the stalled New Town Quarter development between Dundas Street and King George V Park (PPA-230-2755).
Land of the giants.
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Council officials yesterday closed Powderhall Bridge – crossing the Water of Leith between St Mark’s Path and St Mark's Park – indefinitely and without prior notice.
The Council action came in response to the structure failing a recent inspection.
Leith Collective will open its free school-uniform exchange on Friday, 26 June in Ocean Terminal.
The idea is to make sure every pupil can start the new academic year in August ‘looking smart and feeling confident’.
Good-quality uniforms, coats, gym kits, shoes, schoolbags and pencil cases are available completely free of charge, no questions asked.
This is the 4th year Leith Collective’s Sara Thomson has run the scheme', she says.
Odd-looking fox.
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Poor taste, perhaps, but you should see the size of the bees.
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Working out indoors; working out outside.
[Image: David Jackson Young.]
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Some 23 objections to Royal London’s revised proposals for 57 Henderson Row (26/01640/FUL) have been submitted. On the other hand, 14 notes of support were sent in to the Council by the deadline of 22 May.