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As you read this, Issue 217 of the Broughton Spurtle is hip-hippety-hopping through the presses like an Easter Bunny through spring fields full of gin traps.
Next month's four pages are packed with news, views and local gossip including, in no particular order: uphill battles and uncomfortable bits, upgrades in the offing and Council satisfaction, deep waters, lord provosts, slow progress and the link between models and Moulinexes.
Reader Neil Jones (@N_G_Jones) tweeted Spurtle last night with the following trenchant observation and accompanying photo.
'At last, a coherent strategy for Transport in Edinburgh.'
From Tuesday next week, Edinburgh residents in shared properties such as tenements will be able to get information and advice from the Council's new Shared Repairs Service (SRS).
Whilst the Council will retain its statutory notice powers and around-the-clock emergency repairs service, the SRS will 'signpost' owners through the maze of:
The following local planning applications, most mentioned by us in previous issues and online updates, have this week been consented. For more detail, follow the links to the Council Planning Portal.
22 York Place
Change of use from office to dwelling house
12 Cumberland Street North
Consent has now been granted for development of a vacant site on Beaverhall Road (Breaking news, 6.3.13; Ref. 11/03374/FUL). But it may surprise some to learn that the area has historical significance.
Forget miserable sleet, forget trams. Feast your eyes (and ears) on this Indian Benares Silver Gilt, Enamelled and Jewel Mounted Figure of an Elephant, and the description which follows:
City of Edinburgh Council has apologised for mistakenly distributing inaccurate information about plans for waste management in the West End and New Town.
In an email to residents issued at 5.15pm yesterday, Services for Communities explained that draft proposals for bin locations had been wrongly released in the form of traffic order notices.
In some cases, the proposed method for waste management – wheelie-bins or gull-proof bags – had been misidentified. In fact, work to determine which method would work better where is not complete.
Marilène Oliver's work spans new digital technologies, traditional print and sculpture.
She uses MRI and PET scanning to discover the inside of the human body, translating it into data form and examining the way it is now 'unfleshed'.
The result is a mysterious, moving and at times unsettling study of the literal body and its digitised existence as lived by so many of us even outwith any medical context.
Edinburgh Council's Finance and Budget Committee today approved outline plans to reduce the number of long-term empty homes in the capital.
Following changes in Scottish Government legislation, the Council can now go ahead with reducing Council Tax discounts on empty or unfurnished homes after 6 months from 50 per cent to 10 per cent, and completely after a year. (See the report at the foot of this page.)