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Following their inaugural meeting on 29 November, opponents of the Council’s proposed Picardy Place gyratory have issued a manifesto.
The two-page document aims to inform people across Edinburgh, and provides links and addresses to facilitate their response to the Council consultation which ends on Friday 15 December.
The Picardy Group’s reasons for opposing the gyratory are briefly:
COUNCIL RECONSIDERS COMMUNAL BIN COLLECTIONS
City of Edinburgh Council is poised to review communal bin collections and to trial new arrangements in a bid to improve the widely criticised uplift of landfill and recyclable waste.
The CEC response is (neatly) contained within a report which will go before the Transport and Environment Committee on Thursday.
The proposal to build ten ‘beautifully crafted’ homes in a back-green-carpark behind Claremont Crescent has been refused planning permission (Ref. 13/03603/FUL).
As reported here in August, the two-storey micro-dwellings would have ranged in size from 38.4 sq.m to 40.5 sq.m, but this spatial economy was within regulations and not a cause to withhold consent.
Who doesn't love Edinburgh at this time of year?
This season of melancholy greys and seeping chill.
Ten minutes from the crowds on Princes Street, ten minutes from St Andrew Square and George Street, one has time to think.
Things are quieter down here, less maddening.
One has time to reflect on skies of Arctic blue …
Spurtle’s Issue 269 comes out in December and will be the last until February, straddling the New Year period like a huge but elegant new road bridge with only a few piddling surface issues which it’s hardly worth mentioning despite the fact that in time they may cause the entire edifice to collapse. So we won’t.
Page 1 is mostly about the dizzying spin that is Picardy Place, although we also find room for a desirable dragon and make confident predictions about what Leithers will be arguing about in 2018.
Activists, stakeholders and concerned locals opposed to the City of Edinburgh Council’s latest plans for Picardy Place will meet this evening.
The idea is to establish priorities and discuss the best way to promote practical alternatives to the current proposal on offer in advance of the Transport and Environment Committee meeting on 15 January.
This is a closed, planning meeting. Further details will follow. For information, contact: picardygroup@gmail.com
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While Edinburgh collectively takes stock/girds loins/throws hands up in despair over the future of Picardy Place, here is a little planning problem you can help resolve today.
IT LOOKS LIKE A GYRATORY. IT OPERATES AS A GYRATORY. IT'S STILL A GYRATORY
Today consultations continue over the future layout of Picardy Place.
Members of the public are invited to attend an event at the City Art Centre between 10am and 7pm, or another tomorrow at Broughton St Mary’s Church on Bellevue Crescent from 3pm till 7pm.
DAVID YOUNG CAN HARDLY CONTAIN HIS EXCITEMENT
1. Hullo – it looks like major work is underway in Edinburgh city centre.
2. What can it be?
THREE EVENTS, MANY MISGIVINGS
City of Edinburgh Council has announced times and venues for further consultation on the future design of Picardy Place.
‘Stakeholders’ will attend (by invitation only) an event in the City Chambers on 20 November.
Members of the public can go along to either an event at the City Art Centre on 21 November (10am–7pm) or another at Broughton St Mary’s Church in Bellevue Crescent on 22 November (3pm–7pm).