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Locals opposed to plans for redeveloping 154 McDonald Road as flats have contacted the Spurtle following news that the New Town & Broughton Community Council (NTBCC) is backing the proposal (Breaking news, 19.8.13
The New Town & Broughton Community Council (NTBCC) has backed controversial plans to convert 154 McDonald Road into flats (Ref. 13/02458/FUL).
Featured to the right is a portrait of John Hutchison (1833–1910), a distinguished Scottish sculptor who, like the architect Robert Rowand Anderson (1834–1921), studied for some time under Silvermills-born Robert Scott Lauder (1803–69).
Rain – possibly lots of it – is forecast for tomorrow.
The BBC reckons heavy showers will wet Edinburgh around lunchtime and last until late afternoon. Light showers, it says, will precede and follow.
Timeanddate.com is playing cautiously, suggesting 'more clouds than sun' and a 21 per cent chance of rain in the afternoon. Mealy-mouthed, mimby-pimby science of the worst sort: short on alarming, newsworthy nuggets.
For the last two days, Spurtle has been covering a grubby outburst of racial discrimination aimed at English-born Keith Hales on Leith Walk (Breaking news, 13.8.13).
City of Edinburgh Council today announced plans to integrate the capital's transport system under a new organisation called Transport for Edinburgh (TfE).
To begin with, Lothian Buses and Edinburgh Trams will run TfE, with the company's operating structure, 15-year financial model and tram-operating agreement going before a full Council meeting next week.
'There is potential' for the new body to oversee cycling, pedestrian and other issues in future.
The financial model envisages:
Community activist Keith Hales put up some St George's Cross bunting outside his business on Leith Walk this morning.
Pomegranate Restaurant's retrospective planning application for changes to its B-listed premises at 1 Antigua Street has been 'refused' with a recommendation to 'enforce' (Ref. 13/02520/LBC).
When Spurtle repeated a publicist's local angle on a visiting performer last week (Breaking news, 2.8.13), we did so with a healthy dollop of scepticism. Donal O'Kelly, we thought, was probably not spending his every waking hour offstage in Broughton.
Expect street parties and heritage-compliant bunting.
City of Edinburgh's Planning Subcommittee yesterday voted to accept a new Pilrig Conservation Area.