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Around 20 locals attended last night’s New Town and Broughton Community Council to oppose pre-application development proposals for the Royal Bank of Scotland site on and behind Dundas Street (see Issue 249).
Members of the Royal Crescent Residents Association and the Drummond Civic Association joined unaffiliated neighbours in criticising the overall scale of the scheme, a variety of design elements, and other potential problems.
Spring arrived in Broughton this lunchtime.
What felt like the first sunshine in months broke through the morning haar, casting shadows over St Mark’s Park and lighting up the city centre through the haze.
Can you identify the 'spire' to the right of St Mary's? This photographer can't, and it's annoying.
Life seemed to be returning to the Water of Leith …
ESSENTIAL EDINBURGH IN EARLY SPRING
A photo essay by David Jackson Young
1. It’s March. There’s a change of seasons in the air, and in the early spring sunshine, few cities look better than the Scottish capital. Let’s take a stroll …
CONSULTATION SIX MONTHS LATE AND HASN'T EVEN STARTED YET
Yesterday we reported how design principles for George Street are reaching completion, and where these now stand in the overall scheme for shaping the area’s future.
Key to those principles is building-in flexibility for different kinds of use at different times of year.
But what uses? Where? How often? And how will they be managed?
The process of determining George Street’s future is moving forward.
Readers will recall the year-long Experimental Traffic Regulation Order period (August 2014–August 2015) in which the street was partially pedestrianised and peppered with plastic potting-sheds.
Over a thousand stakeholders (individuals, businesses, civic groups, transport and heritage bodies) made their views known about that trial via independent research questionnaires whose results were later explained and discussed at quarterly public meetings.
This afternoon on International Women’s Day, we were left scratching our heads about how half the human race are memorialised (or not) around Edinburgh.
Certainly, in Broughton there are a few very discreet plaques about the New Town.
But, with the exception of some grandiose Victorias, where are the statues of great women to accompany the kings, statesmen, scientists, philosophers and explorers liberally distributed across the rest of the capital?
We could think of only one: a South African township dweller with child in Festival Square.
Many readers will already know something of the Porteous Riots in 1736.
They started at the public execution of a tradesman called Andrew Wilson, who had been found guilty of burgling the Pittenweem customs house and had subsequently helped his partner in crime to escape with the help of the Edinburgh mob.
There were fears that Wilson himself would be liberated before justice could be done, for which reason the Town Guard, under Captain John Porteous’s command, were on particularly twitchy form on the day of execution.
Congratulations to captain Adrian Gomes and his hard-working Broughton Scouts team on winning the Edinburgh North East Scout District footie competition at the Jack Kane Centre yesterday afternoon, writes Scott Richards.
After a disappointing 0:0 draw in the first pool game, ‘The Stags’ never looked back, scoring an average of three goals a game en route to the final against the 104th from Goldenacre.
The new Community Cinema in the middle of Broughton continues this coming Friday with two screeenings aimed at children and families in the afternoon, and adults in the evening.
Below, programmers Rory Bonass and James Mooney preview what's in store.
The Secret of Kells (2009), 75 minutes, NR
Spring has not yet sprung, but it’s certainly thinking about it.
Out and about across Broughton this morning we found more than one sign that the season will soon be changing, including these flowers in the perennial delight at the end of Bellevue Place.
The first crocuses are sticking their heads above the parapet on the crescent over the road.