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The Howard Hotel (at 34 Great King Street) seeks planning permission to develop 7 new bedrooms in a disused mews building at 16 Cumberland Street South East Lane, a partially derelict one at No. 17, and adjacent garden and car parking (Ref. 12/01165/FUL).
Newly arrived in Broughton (we think late last month), this cheerful face with scarf spills from a blocked-up window in Gayfield Square.
The portrait has been applied to paper, carefully cut out, and stuck to the wall.
The subject looks as though she has been drawn from life – or at least from a photograph.
This Spurtle spotter initially thought it represented a Proclaimer getting in touch with his feminine side, but was swiftly disabused by someone who knows about such things.
Surrounded by the remnants of my half-eaten Easter eggs this weekend, I was searching for something to make that didn’t involve chocolate but was still distinctly seasonal. This thought process led me down a rather savoury path and I arrived at a gorgeous recipe for asparagus and smoked salmon tartlets.
Contrary to first impressions, there is common ground in the work of Stewart Bremner and Kevin Low, who appear to make unlikely fellow exhibitors in 'Worlds Apart' at the Union Gallery this month.
Both start with a human mind observed. Bremner fixes first on himself, at a current or remembered point in time and space, examines that self in abstraction, and then plays with it through the seductively distorting medium of paint.
The new Coop supermarket at 8 McDonald Road has been granted permission to extend its trading hours (Ref. 11/0420/FUL). From now on it will be open from 6.00am to 11.00pm (see Breaking news, 5.1.12).
It’s often said that April is the cruellest month (blimmin’ T.S. Eliot fans cluttering up the place) but we have to disagree.
In this the bicentenary of her husband's birth, John Ross Maclean examines a local girl's remarkable but under-remarked biography.
Mrs Charles Dickens (1815–79) – wife of Britain's most famous 19th-century author and social commentator – was born Miss Catherine Hogarth at 8 Hart Street in Broughton.
In Issue 205, we dealt with concerns arising from the recent relaxation of planning regulations ('Common sense and/or the lack of it'). Many people fear that the new Householder Permitted Development Rights will lead to piecemeal and ugly 'customisation' of properties which will make it harder to appreciate and protect them in future.
It never rains but it poohs.
No sooner has Forth Ports's hugely controversial proposal for a biomass plant in Leith Docks been seen off than a new scheme enters the earliest stages of the Council's planning system – this time in Bellevue.
Edinburgh-based Tynecastle Sustainable Futures Ltd has entered ante-pre-application consultations with City Planning officials. They aim to instal a temporary 'micro-biomass' plant at the carpark adjacent to Broughton Primary School on Bellevue Road.