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BATTLE FOR OLD ROYAL HIGH ENTERS NEW PHASE
Over 100 guests assembled in the Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood last night in a reception aimed at pushing the cause of the Perfect Harmony campaign.
Perfect Harmony promotes the interests of St Mary’s Music School and the Royal High School Preservation Trust which, together, want an expanded St Mary’s to move into a conservation-led redesign of Thomas Hamilton’s building and adjacent spaces on Regent Road.
A major, multi-agency counter-terrorism exercise begins today in central and eastern Scotland and Northumbria.
What follows is quoted in full from a Police Scotland press release.
The exercise will begin near Edinburgh and will continue at smaller sites and individual properties across Scotland and the North East of England until 5 October.
Therefore, members of the public may notice increased emergency services activity in certain areas around Edinburgh, the Lothians, the East of Scotland and Northumbria.
COUNCIL U-TURNS ON BAD PLANS AND FLAWED PROCESS
With a surprising turn of pace, the Transport & Environment Committee convener Lesley MacInnes has responded to an avalanche of protest at poorly designed and inadequately consulted plans for Picardy Place.
Individuals, lobbyists, ‘stakeholders’, councillors and community councils railed against the proposals and the method of their delivery.
It’s nearly October, and Issue 267 will soon be fluttering across Broughton like scrunch-free leaves.
If you’re looking for a warm, sheltered, stylish and interesting place to curl up for a month or so, why not grab yourself a few copies and settle down for a good read.
On Page 1 we carry news of a disappearance, fringed shorts and a gyrating intrusion, special measures for ground-down Leithers, a battle won and a war still to be waged.
Today, the Picardy Place consultation continues upstairs at 11 Multrees Walk from 10am to 4pm. We urge everyone to attend.
For those unable to make it, the display boards are supposed to be online at togetherforedinburgh.com early next week.
We’ve photographed some of the most relevant ones already, and will replace them with clearer images if and when they become available.
MAJOR DEVELOPMENT IN LINE FOR BONNINGTON
Staff from Montagu Evans LLP met Leith Central Community Council on Monday to discuss a pre application notification for new housing and commercial properties on Bonnington Road Lane (Ref. 17/03256/PAN).
Councillors today approved the Outline Business Case for extending the trams.
In doing so, they triggered a year-long ‘fact-finding’ Stage 2, during which tender prices will be gathered by which to check affordability, current tram use will be further assessed, and – it is hoped – some lessons from Lord Hardie’s Tram Inquiry will be learned.
A final decision on whether or not to proceed with the scheme will be taken next autumn.
Changeworks are asking Edinburgh flat and tenement dwellers for their opinions about shared on-street bins used for rubbish and recycling.
‘It is important that Edinburgh flat residents are given the opportunity to give feedback on their current waste and recycling service.’, says Changeworks’ Head of Projects Sam Mills.
‘This will help the City of Edinburgh Council to improve bin design, as well as collections, bin locations and recycling communications which will benefit the local community.’
Remember HAL in Arthur C. Clark’s 2001: A Space Odyssey?
The sentient Heuristically programmed Algorithmic computer began to malfunction in mid-mission.
Artificially conscious, HAL knew he risked being disconnected, so not unreasonably turned against his astronaut masters with fatal consequences.
Something similar may be happening in Regent Place, where a tree has grown too large for the garden and is beginning to cause structural damage.
The Greenside Link is no more.
In still conditions during the small hours of this morning, contractors succeeded in cutting it at either end and gently lowering the central section by crane onto the development site beside the ruins of the King James Hotel.
If you compare the photo below with the one we posted yesterday, you’ll notice not a lot has changed.
Except for a sudden abundance of thin air.