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Last week, we published an article summarising responses to the Scottish Law Commission's proposal for compulsory owners associations in Scotland's tenements. You can read it here.

Below, local resident Dennis O'Keeffe gives a professional appraisal of contemporary tenure realities and why absentee ownership, private-rented-sector growth and short-term letting churn must shape the design of any new arrangements.

Here’s a question for you. Where in Spurtleshire can you find for sale, under one commercial roof:

'Carpe diem

Following publication of a Scottish Law Commission report and draft legislation commission

Coffee and conversation. 

Spurtle ventures into the Deep South. 

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#Winter

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. 

Locals to object at hearing 

Planning officers recommend approving plans to develop the 2.7 ha former Royal Bank of Scotland site between Du

Charlie Ellis enjoys some Broughton byways 

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.

By our estimation, there were crocks of gold in Canonmills and Montgomery Street Park. 

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