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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.
City of Edinburgh Council aims to create at least 16,000 affordable and low-cost homes by investing £2 billion over ten years.
This is the most eye-catching target in a nine-point strategy being consulted upon by CEC’s Health, Social Care and Housing Committee at the moment.
It comes as work begins on the major residential development at Shrubhill , where some 236 affordable homes will be built, thanks in part to CEC investment using loans guaranteed by the Scottish Government’s National Housing Trust.
Duddingston House Properties and the Urbanist Group have come forward with revised proposals for the old Royal High School and a proposal of application notice (PAN). A full application will follow in 12 weeks at the earliest.
First, however, the plans – which many expect to comprise a drastically scaled-down version of the earlier luxury hotel scheme – will be the subject of a pre-application consultation (PAC) on a date to be agreed between 1st and 3rd November from 3pm-7pm at the old Royal High School itself.
Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel are collaborating Canadian artists whose work now appears at Edinburgh Printmakers and outside EP’s forthcoming new home at the Castle Mill Works on Gilmore Park.
The exhibition – History Machines – foregrounds the physical presence of text: the effect on understanding of its manufacture, style, composition, manipulation, replication, and decomposition.
Yesterday's piece on serious traffic congestion in Edinburgh's East End touched a raw nerve (Breaking news, 13.9.16; see foot of page).
Our Facebook post alone has reached nearly 95,000 people since this time (4.30pm) yesterday, and the total is still rising.
Today, we approached City of Edinburgh Council and asked for a statement on:
If you find yourself caught up in slow-moving East End traffic over the next few days, here are 15 possible explanations.
We found them on the Council’s helpful EdinTravel page.
1. St Andrew Square, south side
Redevelopment of 3–8 St Andrew Square. Lane and footway closures. Other ad hoc arrangements as required for removal of spoil, delivery of materials etc.
South leg of Square closed 1.06.16–23.10.16.
THE BALLAD OF DUNDAS STREET
I settle into the window seat and watch as a light drizzle attempts to motivate late afternoon.
Behind me, the clang and hiss of my order makes a brief, unsuccessful, attempt to enliven this sedate New Town coffee shop.
The rain becomes a downpour, pooling on metallic tables and undulating pavements. Large umbrellas are unfurled, anoraks dived into. For a moment, Dundas Street displays the energetic grace of a late summer regatta.