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Rayprographics seeks to vary its planning consent with a new plan for the 626 sq.m. site at 5 Warriston Road (Ref. 16/04263/FUL).
The plans are not particularly easy to read, but it looks to us as if the substantially revised scheme, by McCreadie Design Ltd, comprises 5 storeys providing six flats (one 1-bed, three 2-bed, two 3-bed). The scheme approved earlier comprised 10 flats.
Drummond students have achieved a second consecutive victory in the Enterprising Maths in the Lothians competition.
Benjamin Sterratt (S4, pictured left) Daniel Farrow (S3), Mhairi Dickie (S4) and Sara Leszczynska (S3, pictured right) tackled a variety of mathematical puzzles and problems to beat off competition from 26 teams from across Edinburgh, East Lothian and Midlothian.
For many years, this former Gentlemen’s Hairdresser on Rodney Street has been falling to pieces in front of our eyes.
The paintwork is peeling from the front. Nobody knows what’s going on inside. The shop just sits there like a small-business memento mori, winking at people by the bus stop and muttering to itself.
Now, at last, there are signs of an encouraging development.
Reader Fiona Illand contacted us yesterday with news that a self-seeded lettuce is flourishing in the doorway of No. 38.
Who doesn’t like harmonica music?
Especially when it’s played by a spherical rat, walking on two legs, to a collection of antlike creatures gathered about his feet.
Possibly, the Nit Not doesn’t, to judge by the expression of vexed concentration on the face of the strange character below.
The Drummond Tennis Club’s 2016 Championships last month will largely be remembered for the taming of the Master!
Hughie Masters – back after a short break – took on Calum Friar in the Singles Final. With the crowd expecting a Masters champion, Friar had other ideas. Calum produced his finest display on the clay to record a 6–3 6–2 win and his third title in four years.
The October Spurtle is written, printed, folded, counted, sorted into bundles and now ready for distribution across a news-ravenous Broughton and beyond.
The latest issue brings you information nourishment flavoured with three planning applications which haven’t even been submitted yet, and five that have.
We have tasty morsels on horns and mooning, a TV exclusive, and word on not particularly peaceful things to do with an olive branch that land you in court.
CITY LAUNCHES MAJOR CONSULTATION
Anyone who lives, works or studies in Edinburgh is invited to take part in a major Council-organised consultation between now and December.
The aim of the scheme (launched on Tuesday) is to create a ‘2050 Edinburgh City Vision’, coordinating views from across the city to produce a coherent strategy for planning and investment over the next 30 years.
The first draft is scheduled for publication in summer 2017.
Colours Gallery’s latest exhibition of fine paintings was assembled by Mr Glenn Ross in the virtual afterglow of the great fireworks display which concluded this year’s Edinburgh Festival.
It too is a scintillating celebration and, as befits this gem among the capital’s commercial art galleries, it comprises an array of chiefly 19th and 20th-century Scottish paintings of some distinction, many of which would grace the national collections.
... AND THEY’RE THE MAJORITY
Council officials have expressed shock after their crack Waste Compliance team discovered what everyone else in Edinburgh had been aware of for years.
A lot of businesses across the capital are rubbish at rubbish.
A burst on a trunk water main is responsible for the low water pressure and unsastisfactory ablutions across many parts of Edinburgh this morning, including Broughton.
A Scottish Water spokesman explains: ‘This burst is linked to a valve on our network which manages water pressure throughout the city.’
The city centre, Old Town, Canongate, Liberton, Prestonfield, Little France and The Inch are other parts of the capital which have been affected.