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'NOT UNATTRACTIVE' STRUCTURE NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO KEEP
The appeal by developer Glovart Investments Ltd to the Scottish Government has been allowed (Ref. CAC-230-2001).
1–6 Canonmills will probably be demolished and redeveloped.
The decision has shocked and disappointed campaigners who fought to retain the popular, low-profile structure currently occupied by Earthy.
PLANS FOR LEITH AFFECT PARTS OF BROUGHTON
Council officials from the Planning department are consulting on draft guidance that will shape the layout and content of Leith Town Centre (LTC) for years to come.
Crucially for Spurtle readers, the definition of this area extends on both sides of Leith Walk from Pilrig Street up to Annandale Street, and then along 94–6 Brunswick Street/Elm Row to the junction with London Road.
It’s the Broughton part of LTC we focus on here.
BELLEVUE HOLE UNEARTHS INTERESTING OLD RELICS
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single street in possession of a good hole, must be in want of an interested observer … usually male, wearing a flat cap and unlikely to see 25 again any time soon.’
These are the exact words Jane Austen would have used had she been on West Annandale Street this morning, where a most interesting pit at the junction with Bellevue Gardens was exciting one of the Spurtle team in the rain.
Amost before the paint has dried on their new student accommodation at 7 Shrub Place, Ziggurat (Shrubhill) LLP have applied for planning permission to extend and reconfigure it (Ref. 16/00191/FUL).
The changes would add 38 student beds to the 260 already in place.
Developers have returned to the Council with additional plans for how they would shore up the slope behind 32–62 Broughton Road in order to make possible the building of 8 new townhouses in a narrow strip of land there (Ref. 15/02335/FUL).
NEW FILM SEASON STARTS ON FRIDAY 29 FEBRUARY
As reported last week, the New Town Community Cinema will run two strands of films – one for families in the afternoon and one for adults in the evening – on alternate Fridays in the Glasite Meeting House at 33 Barony Street.
Below, programmers Rory Bonass and James Mooney introduce their first two choices.
Belleville Rendez-Vous (2003), 80 mins, Certificate 12A
Another Minimalism at The Fruitmarket Gallery on Market Street has been beautifully curated, and it’s wonderful to see such care and attention given to each piece, writes Rhys Fullerton.
The works on display are made as we look and experience them, and can change due to various conditions such as light and time.
My favourite is ‘Shadows (After Atget)’ by Spencer Finch. Finch’s multi-coloured fluorescent light tubes are minimalist, and bring light and colour to the room.
There's nowt so queer as folk, and no way of telling exactly what will annoy some of them whilst leaving others unperturbed.
Spurtle learns that this large, slightly battered advertisement for upmarket properties at 24 Great King Street has ignited pockets of indignation around Drummond Place.
It represents, to some, the 'creeping commercialisation of the New Town', and smoke is now billowing out of their trousers.
Resistance and Persistence is a group exhibition at the Ingleby Gallery, which takes its title from Sean Scully's essay on the mid-20th-century Italian painter Giorgio Morandi.
Scully’s abstract oil painting 'Untitled (Doric)' is one of the highlights of this show, and will be instantly recognisable to anyone familiar with his work.
I admire this piece because it is imperfect. You can see each brushstroke, you can see each colour merging with the next. And that for me is what makes it so appealing.
Support for the Royal High School Preservation Trust (RHSPT) plans to create a new home for St Mary’s Music School at 5–7 Regent Road has gathered momentum over recent days.
Voices from the ‘heritage lobby’, local community, politics and the Arts have gone public with their approval ahead of Friday’s extended deadline for comments to the Council.
These are by no means the only opinions on the subject, but they are for the time being the most audible.