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Leith Neighbourhood Partnership is seeking input from local residents, workers, students and visitors to help establish up to 20 issues for the Council and Police to focus on during the next three-month period. The idea is to identify outcomes which would make you and your community feel safer.

A maximum of six (divided equally between Leith and Leith Walk Wards) will then be chosen by members of the public at the forthcoming Feeling Safe Community Forum meeting. 

Edinburgh residents lucky enough to live in a Controlled Parking Zone or Priority Parking area now have an opportunity to tell the Council how much they enjoy the experience.

This A-board portrait outside Artisan Roast on Broughton Street is, according to a slightly scrambled caption, the result of drinking 10 espressos.  

Passers-by have been left pleasantly bewildered this week by the sight of one particular tree in the bottom garden below Mansfield Place.

It's been 'bombed'.

Did you know that vines produce a kind of berry?  

Spurtle didn't, until the arrival of a new design on the A-board outside Villeneuve Wines on Broughton Street (see below).

We applaud theis shop's intermittent forays into Education, but on this occasion were left thirsting for more. 

As you dry up your cups and saucers, do you ever find yourself wandering out of the house in search of something more interesting to do?

If so, artist Keith Thompson has the perfect household requisite for you.

Plans to build 2 restaurants, 6 flats and 3 townhouses at 1,2,3–6 Canonmills (beside the bridge) have at last been approved (Ref. 09/00830/FUL). 

What is the point of time-limited planning permissions if the time allowed for development is not, indeed, limited?

Although stone-crushing on the Shrub Place gap-site has now ceased, lorries and JCBs are still shifting vast amounts of tramwork-related rubble and materials around, on and off it.

The resulting noise, dust and vibration annoy and distress local residents, who not surprisingly feel such activities are better suited to an out-of-town location.

The New Town and Broughton Community Council has responded to the Council's 'Building a Vision for the City Centre Consultation'.

We reproduce its Chair Ian Mowat's clear and concise letter at the foot of this page.

NTBCC's key findings as they affect Broughton are that any move (as mooted) to reroute or displace traffic from Princes Street and George Street would: