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The Royal Botanic Garden's East Gate on Inverleith Row, closed since 29 February, is expected to open again on 29 March. There is additional temporary access through the North Gate during the interim. The John Hope Gateway remains open as usual.
The gate has closed during exterior refurbishment of the East Gate Lodge, where improved visitor facilities are being installed.
Spring is nearly here, and some people's fancies are lightly turning to thoughts of pinching things from your back green.
With low-risk, easy-pickings garden crime common throughout Scotland, Lothian and Borders Police today issued simple tips to deter thieves.
The closure of Drummond CHS during the Easter Holiday means a new date and venue for the New Town and Broughton Community Council's next monthly meeting.
It will be held at 7.15pm on Monday 12 April in the Garden Room at Broughton St Mary's Parish Church, Bellevue Crescent. There's good disabled access down the ramp to the right of the building.
The meeting will begin with presentation of pre-planning application designs for 130 McDonald Road.
On 15 March, City of Edinburgh Council will launch a Building Restoration Grant Scheme to meet up to 75–90% of costs incurred in restoring or reinstating traditional architectural features in Leith.
Priority will be given to properties in Constitution, Great Junction, and Bernard Streets, with maximum possible awards of £15,000. The idea is to encourage small to medium-scale improvements to the appearance of features such as doors, windows, railings, slate roofs, and walls, plus shopfronts not covered by a complementary scheme already in existence.
Henderson Global Investment’s £850m redevelopment of the St James Centre appears to be stalling over issues concerning Picardy Place (Issues 176, 178).
However the developers remain upbeat on their new website, claiming that demolition could still begin in 2012, with new shops opening in 2016 and completion of the project in 2017. See: www.stjamesquarter.info.
TIE's partial reopening of Broughton Street to traffic turning left from York Place has been delayed.
Workmen hit an unspecified snag, but expect to have overcome it by 10 March.
Full re-opening of the street is still expected by the end of this month.
Nationally recognised local author Sue Palmer will talk to local parents on 17 March.
City of Edinburgh Council's Planning Committee seeks views on changing residential properties into guest houses, private day nurseries, and home-based businesses.
They've issued a draft guideline which can be viewed at www.edinburgh.gov.uk/planning.
Since August the Fairtrade/Kenya WAO (Wider Achievement Opportunity) has been running a café (tuckshop!) every Friday for staff at Drummond CHS, writes Annie Scanlon. Now they’re ready to introduce their classmates to Fairtrade with a variety of events for Fairtrade Fortnight starting on Monday 22 February.
Edinburgh-based AMA (New Town) Ltd seeks permission to convert Fusion House at 73 Logie Road from offices into a residential care home for up to 90 people (Ref. 10/00228/FUL).
The plan would involve building kitchens and administration space within part of a groundfloor car park, and adding a conservatory to the 3rd-floor terrace.
An overprovision of office space in the capital during the recession has made the 130,980 sq ft building hard to let or sell. In fact it has been empty ever since construction in 2008.