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Planning consent has been refused for the insertion of two refurbished police boxes for use as coffee kiosks on North Castle Street and Hanover Street (Refs 13/00141/FUL, 13/00142/FUL; see
New doubts regarding fairness, openness and administrative competence have surfaced in relation to granting wider access to Drummond Place Garden (Issue 215; Breaking news, 28.2.13, 11.3.13).
A seemingly mundane planning proposal for land between Logie Green Road and Beaverbank Place is not so mundane after all.
In the fine print, it becomes clear that an important strand of the consented development for the site has now been quietly dropped, and more traffic may soon be on its way to this busy part of Broughton. All this, apparently, with City of Edinburgh Council's agreement.
For my final Spurtle recipe, I’m going back to one of my favourite Broughton Street retailers: Coco Chocolate. I have been in love with their 72% dark chocolate for a few years now, as it works perfectly in cakes and for an after dinner nibble! For this recipe, it adds an extra chocolatey hit in the form of a chocolate drizzle over the top of the cake.
Since Spurtle published Bill Giles’s response to our piece in Issue 215 (Breaking news, 28.2.13), we have been contacted separately by two past and present residents (of Drummond Place and an adjacent street) who disagree with how things stand regarding access to the Garden.
Unwilling to sour relations between current and former neighbours, they have requested anonymity.
Love them or loathe them, Edinburgh's trams have just come a big step closer.
Contractors today handed over nearly 3km of completed and tested track between Edinburgh Airport and Gogarburn.
This morning, Spurtle joined journalists and photographers from all over the country on an inaugural trip.
It is difficult to convey just how enjoyable this experience was.
Spirits buoyed by the lovely spring-like weather, Friends of the Rocheid Path made great progress last weekend and successfully brought order to a row of hollies at the west gate.
The plan now is to clear away basal growth to make them look more like trees again. Work on 8 of the 12 trees is complete, so one more day of action should complete the task. Then, hopefully, the Council will remove the mountain of debris.
The application for a residential and commercial development at 14, 16, 20, 24, 26 Beaverhall Road has at last received full planning consent (Ref. 11/03374/FUL).
Springfield Properties and MD and RG Rutterford propose 80 dwelling spaces, 288 sq.m. commercial floorspace, and new roads and infrastructure.
A migraine-inducing blizzard of new illuminated and non-illuminated signs is planned by Tesco Stores Ltd for the branch at 7 Broughton Road (Ref. 13/00540/ADV).
We urge readers to don sunglasses, visit the link above, and have a good laugh.
There has been a distinct buzz surrounding the solo exhibition of new works by Audrey Grant at Broughton Street's Union Gallery.
Even before the doors opened on Friday evening, 9 of the 25 paintings hanging had been sold to buyers around the world – unseen except on the gallery's website. In the 3 days since, a further 7 have been purchased. These are unusually fast sales.
So what's going on?