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Alternative plans for the future of the old Royal High School became a little clearer today with a counter-bid for the building and announcements about the architects who would be employed.
The Royal High School Preservation Trust (RHSPT) revealed this morning that it has made a formal legal offer to buy the site from City of Edinburgh Council for £1.5m. This figure, it says, exceeds the value CEC has so far attributed to it.
Architecture & Design Scotland (ADS) has given qualified support to aspects of the proposed hotel scheme for the old Royal High School building on Regent Road.
On 9 September, ADS’s design advisor Johnny Cadell wrote to David Given, a senior planning officer at City of Edinburgh Council.
Emerging artists can often struggle with their first steps in the real world, but Thomas Cameron seems to be taking it all in his stride.
Having graduated from Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design only last year, this month sees him hold his first solo exhibition at The Sutton Gallery on Dundas Street.
Yesterday, about noon, a journeyman wright, said to be much intoxicated with liquor, tumbled down from the walk on the west side of the Calton-hill, to the bottom. He was carried to the Royal Infirmary, but as both his arms were broke, had received a fracture in his skull, and was otherwise miserably bruised, there are but little hopes of his recovery.
Taken from the Caledonian Mercury, 25 September 1780. [Image: Flikr Commons.]
Historic Scotland will object to the planning application for the old Royal High School.
In an email to City of Edinburgh Council yesterday, it outlined the grounds for its concerns. It will expand upon these later, but they are in brief:
A LONELY ENIGMA AT THE HEART OF THE BOTANICS
This month sees the welcome return of Reg Butler’s bronze sculpture 'Girl' to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE).
The work has been reinstated at its original location as a feature of the pond outside Inverleith House.
'Girl' was one of the earliest and most prominently sited acquisitions made by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA), and was on loan here between 1960 and 1984.
The large, green, mixed recycling bins arrived on the streets of Bellevue / Claremont in mid-February (Issue 237). City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) stated at the time that the trial was scheduled to last for 6 months – presumably finishing in mid-August.
HARD TIMES IN AUSTERITY EDINBURGH
G-Star Raw at 8 Multrees Walk is no more.
The luxury men’s and women’s denim retail franchise has left, clenching its chic yet casually sculpted buttocks behind it.
This time last year, Drapers magazine blamed high rents for a string of similar closures in Gateshead, Derby, Cardiff, Leicester, London and Bristol. Profit margins, like the jeans, are tight.
New research suggests that waiting times at city-centre pedestrian crossings are not improving, despite efforts to address the problem.
On 2 September, we featured painstaking research by reader 'Paul at Fountainbridge' (PF) into crossing times. In most cases, it required the patience of a saint not to ignore the red man and traverse at peril.
If British legislation restricting the possession and use of firearms is among the strictest of its kind in the world, it is only partly out of a wish to keep such weapons out of the hands of bank robbers.
In the past, gun legislation in Scotland was aimed principally at Jacobites, vagrants, poachers and potential Bolsheviks.
Armed drunk young men tended – until the late 19th century – to slip through a legal loophole.