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Mark Lazarowicz MP (Edinburgh North & Leith) has responded to the Council's Draft Local Development Plan consultation.

Those of his comments which relate in particular to Broughton include:

Someone has been stealing plants from the Hillside Gardens.

Gone are: 3 red rhododendrons (each 2-foot high); four beautiful deep purple hellebores; a St John's Wort hypericum, yellow-flowered, again 18 inches to 2 foot; plus a couple of ornamental grasses.

Passers-by may have noticed this beautiful piece of furniture in a basement on Mansfield Place, but comparatively few will know the bitter-sweet story behind its appearance.

The piece is in fact a memorial bench, donated by her family to the memory of Annie Garven who died in 2011. 

The Royal Scots Club at 29–31 Abercromby Place has uncovered fascinating and rarely before seen photographs of the building's original meeting rooms, taken shortly after the Great War.

Responding to the City of Edinburgh’s recent Draft Local Development Plan (LDP) consultation, the New Town and Broughton Community Council has welcomed progress made since previous drafts on:

Drummond Community High School is a hub of multinational, multicultural and multilingual activity in Edinburgh. Here, Birgit Harris (Community Education Manager)  tells us about the school’s Cultural Peer Project, which has gone from strength to strength over recent years.

Reader John Ellis has been enjoying Spurtle’s coverage of recent changes at the Stag’s Head on Broughton Road/Rodney Street (Issue 219, p.2).

In particular, the phrase ‘murky authenticity’ has struck a chord.

‘I’ve always felt,’ writes Mr Ellis, that there was something suspicious about the creature on the pub’s sign’.

D.J. Tierney was surprised to find Jessica Rabbit on a recent visit to Broughton, and phoned to tell us about it.

The image – enhanced in these photos but harder to make out and not obviously oriented in reality – appears on paving stones outside the community garden on Barony Place.

Foremost Properties (Scotland) LLP’s proposals for 67 Colony-style and flatted dwellings at land 35m southwest of 132 McDonald Road have been granted planning consent (Ref.

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