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What could be more boring than a bin?
They are not objects of exquisite beauty.
Homesick exiles never reminisce about them.
Lovers don’t spoon together in their shade.
They’re so usefully boring that, unless filled to overflowing, we usually don’t notoice them or give a second look.
City of Edinburgh Council seeks the public’s views on outdoor advertising. Its online consultation pages – with six multiple-choice questions and space for additional comments – will remain OPEN HERE until 14 September.
The subject has arisen as CEC reviews planning guidelines on ‘what types of outdoor advertising are acceptable [and] where it is suitable’.
As campaigners fight to rebuff plans for Stead’s Place, and community councils unite to fire a warning shot across the bows of the Council, local businessman Mark Gibson explains what makes Leith Walk special and why it needs special protection.
LOCALS APPLY PRESSURE ON CEC
Four community councils along the route of the proposed tramway to Newhaven have issued a joint statement to City of Edinburgh Council.
People of Broughton, are you too hot?
Then chill out with a super-cool copy of the July Spurtle, available across the barony and beyond from tomorrow.
Issue 275 kicks off with news about tram engineers and local citizens divided by common aspirations. It continues with news from North Korea and a well-kent local face now captured on screen. There is also a tweet full of ticks.
Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition, visited the Newkirkgate this afternoon.
His brief appearance was a show of support for long-time party colleague Cllr Gordon Munro (Ward 13), who has been selected to stand for the marginal Edinburgh North & Leith constituency at the next General Election.
Corbyn pledged Labour’s commitment to the National Health Service in its 70th year, and spoke of sticking up for ‘the many not the few’ in a city where 80,000 people are living in poverty.
12-WEEK CONSULTATION BEGINS
City of Edinburgh Council and the Ross Development Trust seek feedback from the public concerning plans to upgrade and ‘revitalise’ West Princes Street Gardens and improve accessibility.
At consultation events yesterday and today, and a presentation to Leith Central Community Council last week, City of Edinburgh Council floated ideas and asked for the public's views on the future of the former Powderhall Waste Transfer Station site, and the neighbouring former bowling greens currently used by Broughton Primary School.
Edinburgh Council’s Development Management Subcommittee has reached decisions on two local cases highlighted by the Spurtle in recent months.
The first concerns a retrospective application by Notemachine UK Ltd to postion a new ATM in the window of Lifestyle Express at Category B-listed 20 Broughton Street (see Breaking news, 11.4.18).
This application was refused and enforced because:
As with this school year, a feature of last Tuesday’s celebration of achievement at Drummond Community High School was dealing with the unexpected.
A key member of the catering team, one of the musicians and the Headteacher (Jodie Hannan) were all indisposed. Happily, these setbacks didn’t dampen the celebratory atmosphere.