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SHORT-TERM UNDERTAKING

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Planning permission is sought to convert two Category A-listed properties on London Street into short-term holiday-let accommodation.

Both properties are at No. 39, and both have fallen into disrepair after being unoccupied for between 10 and 30 years. Both properties have their own front doors.

On the level

LATEST NEWS ON POWDERHALL DEVELOPMENT

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Following 5 previous consultation rounds, and before submitting a full planning application for the Powderhall Bowling Greens site later this month, those behind the proposals this morning presented final plans to the public and answered questions.

Representatives of Collective Architecture, City of Edinburgh Council, and Urban Pioneers (landscape architects) discussed proposals on Zoom with around 16 interested parties, most of whom live or work locally.

No great surprises

EDINBURGH FESTIVALS – TOO BIG AND OUT OF CONTROL?

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Professor Cliff Hague, Chairman of the Cockburn Association, delivered the heritage watchdog’s annual lecture last night on Zoom.

His theme was the Frankenstein’s monster that is festivalisation – in particular, Edinburgh’s monstrous creation that has grown too big for the laboratory and now threatens to ruin the very apparatus that gave it birth.

Well, that was this viewer’s expectation. Instead, what emerged was a calm, forensic account of how the Festivals and Fringe emerged in the city and grew to their current proportions.