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Local campaigners from Leith and east Edinburgh will meet to discuss Council privatisation of certain public services, writes campaigner Alyson Macdonald.
The public event – to which councillors and a speaker from Unison have been invited – is scheduled for 7pm on Tuesday13 December at Meadowbank Arts Complex (see map below). All are welcome to attend.
[The cast move off from assembly on Dundas Street, August 2011]
Staff at the Canonmills Launderette on Huntley Street have been amazed by the number of people entering the premises since they put up a new sign outside.
Unfortunately, these are not eager new customers but disgruntled locals keen to point out not one but two egregious mistakes in Cannon Mills.
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[HM Revenue and Customs, 44 York Place]
Despite at least 37 letters of objection, City Planners will recommend that the Planning Subcommittee approve revised plans for a Sainsbury store at 28 Howe Street on 7 December (Ref. 11/02842/FUL).
The report by John Bury, Head of Planning, can be read by clicking on the pdf at the foot of this page. In it he concludes that:
Readers with an historical bent may be interested in viewing the painting linked here. Reader John MacDonald has rediscovered it in the the newly refurbished Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Queen Street.
'I had seen a black-and-white copy of this picture before,' MacDonald told us, 'but it was nice to come across the original in the gallery.
The Portobello and Leith Community Wind Energy Project has won – just – in its Energyshare.com contest category, and will receive £80,000 funding.
The money will allow completion of further feasibility research into a scheme to build a wind turbine at Seafield. It is now expected that the project will move into the planning application stage in 2012.
Ani Rinchen Khandro is one of those who have been campaigning with remarkable effectiveness to stop the chop of trees immediately upstream of the bridge at Canonmills. Below she updates Spurtle readers on progress so far.
UNESCO's Edinburgh World Heritage Site recognises this city's unique and fascinating conjunction of the Old and New Towns. The Edinburgh World Heritage Trust seeks to preserve and improve these historic streetscapes as part of a modern and flourishing city.
[Beaverhall House, Beaverhall Road]