PLANNING UPDATE (12.11.13)
A dance studio is proposed as part of the new Block C development at 19 Beaverbank Place (Ref. 13/04167/FUL).
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PROMOTING PATHS TO PARTICIPATION
Local politics, especially community council meetings, could do with more involvement from young people, writes Ella Taylor-Smith.
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY ON BELLEVUE CRESCENT
Service personnel, past and present, members of the Royal British Legion, their families and friends joined scouts and locals in a Remembrance Sunday service at Broughton St Mary’s Parish Church earlier today.
HOW COOL ... IT'S HOWE STREET
Struggling to keep warm this morning was local artist Susie Keith, pictured here capturing a New Town resident’s Howe Street home en plein air.
PILE DRIVING IN BELLEVUE ROAD
Work starts in the old carpark at 115 Bellevue Road. This was previously owned by City of Edinburgh Council and used by people working in the Education Centre at 154 McDonald Road.
It also used to hold recycling bins, and was a snow-dump in the winter of 2010 when troops stepped in to help clear streets.
SLOWLY, STEP BY STEP – THE RECENT RESHAPING OF KING GEORGE V PARK
The Council's parks unit, responsible for the recent revamp of the play area in King George V Park, has received a complaint from a resident who believes that the terrace of steps alongside the big slide is a dangerous innovation, writes Judy Conn, Secretary of the Friends of King George V and Scotland Yard Parks.
MARVELLING AT THE MENAGERIE
Sculptor Barbara Franc’s work – which shows at the Union Gallery on Broughton Street this month – embodies a paradox.
At one level, she has an uncanny ability to model complete, living and moving beings: wonderful hares and prancing horses, birds of all shapes and sizes, mischievous squirrels, stags chewing, swans, stately and serene.
At another level, she manages to reduce these creations into their component inorganic parts.
YOUNG AT HEART DEFY WET SPELL
They say witches come out in all weathers, and this is indeed true in Broughton! writes Broughton Project Group secretary Meg Nelson.
A Family Halloween Party, run by the BPG, attracted many a witch, spider, Batman and skeleton to the Barony Community Garden last Thursday 31 October as night fell.
BROUGHTON PUPILS IN PRINT
Pupils from Broughton Primary School launched their own book yesterday at the National Library of Scotland.
Crabbit Tales – two stories about feelings – was co-written by 51 P7 children with the help of local author Mary Turner Thomson. Starting in June, Thomson also guided them through the processes of planning, illustrating and publishing.