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We’ve become wearily accustomed to to HGVs knocking great lumps off properties around Broughton Street Lane.
But a recent low-speed collision on North St Andrew Street takes things to a whole new level.
According to workers on the adjacent building site, a delivery lorry ‘misjudged’ the corner at North Clyde Street Lane and caused extensive damage to a Category A-listed tenement (by David Paton, 1824).
Here’s what it looked like before.
CAN YOU HELP POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH?
Yang Wang is a second-year PhD student at Glasgow University. His Urban Studies research aims to investigate and geographically visualise residents’ emotional attachment to their everyday historic environment, and Broughton is one of the areas he’s looking at in detail.
Leithers Don’t Litter and Changeworks joined forces this afternoon to launch a new campaign against flytipping as part of Zero Waste Leith.
Organisers issued a booklet explaining legal ways to store and dispose of waste, and highlighting the Council email address on which to report flytippers and arrange for their mess to be uplifted free: http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/flytipping
IMI MAUFE’S TRANSLATING TRAVELS AT EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS
Sun’s out. Summer beckons. Hands up all those experiencing restless feet!
If you’re prickling to travel, there’s an intriguing exhibition on at Edinburgh Printmakers by the Bergen-based British artist Imi Maufe.
BEAUTIFUL NEW GALLERY SPACE IN THE HEART OF BROUGHTON
The Ingleby Gallery opened its doors for the first time this morning at new premises on the corner of Barony Street and Albany Street Lane.
The interior of the Glasite Meeting House has been transformed from a fascinating but forlorn time capsule with all the freshness of a long uncleaned fishtank to a sublimely airy space which now accommodates with becoming modesty an exhibition of five new works by Scottish artist Callum Innes.
Rush-hour tram services were disrupted yesterday afternoon after an incident on York Place.
At 4.23pm, a construction vehicle from the St James site crossed the tracks with its arm raised. In doing so it made contact with and dislodged the overhead line near the York Place tram stop.
A witness at the scene reported hearing a ‘loud electrical bang’.
Police and firefighters were quickly on the scene but there are no reports of injuries.
POLICE SEEK HELP TO IDENTIFY MAN
Police in Edinburgh this morning issued a press release and CCTV images of a man they wish to trace in connection with a stabbing and attempted robbery at the USave convenience store on Elm Row.
We reproduce their wording below.
The incident happened at around 9.30pm on Wednesday 2nd May at the USave shop on Elm Row.
Two men, aged 64 and 54, were working within when a male entered and presented a weapon before attempting to steal money.
Roadworks at the junction of Rodney Street and Broughton Road have been causing delays and disruption locally.
We hear the three-way traffic lights – particularly at peak times – have caused tailbacks stretching nearly as far as Broughton Primary School travelling west, Mansfield Place to the south and beyond Canonmills Bridge to the north.
Shoppers have apparently had difficulty exiting Tesco, and turning right from Logie Green Road. The scene below was captured at 12.15pm today.
MORE SERIOUS DOUBTS ABOUT INITIAL DESIGN
Pedestrian campaigners Living Streets Edinburgh Group has issued its response to the Council’s consultation on Trams to Newhaven. LSEG was commenting on first-draft proposals for the design in the event of the Council voting to proceed with the extension this autumn.
HOSTILE REACTION IN ADVANCE OF EXHIBITION LATER THIS WEEK
Save Leith Walk campaigners have reacted scornfully to preliminary design proposals for the redevelopment of Stead’s Place.
They say demolition of the two-storey 1930s buildings, whilst retaining elements of their facades in a new five/six-storey structure, would be ‘overpowering and disrespectful’ of Leith Walk’s heritage.
They also criticise the incongruous use of brick.