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The Scottish Government Reporter today rejected Drum’s appeal against Edinburgh Council’s refusal of planning consent for demolition/redevelopment of the site on and around Stead’s Place (Ref. PPA-230-2274; Breaking news, 30.1.19).
The Reporter’s reasoning is elaborated in 82 points across 16 densely worded pages. You can enjoy them all at leisure in the pdf attached below.
The new ‘gas governor’ that recently appeared in Bellevue Crescent is to be redesigned.
Today we get you properly in the Christmas mood with this, the third in our series of delicious recipes first published in the pages of Mrs Williamson’s 1854 book The Practice of Cookery and Pastry, Adapted to the Business of Every Day Life.
For more on this remarkable local figure, see Barclay Price’s article in Issue 289.
This may not be the most exciting item we bring you this Christmas, but it may yet prove to be among the more useful.
Below we reproduce a briefing issued by the Place Management part of the Place Directorate bit within City of Edinburgh Council.
Bin-collection arrangements have been confirmed for the festive period as follows:
The SNP held Edinburgh North & Leith last night with an emphatic victory and increased share of the vote.
With 73% of the electorate taking part, the results were as follows:
In the words of Joni Mitchell, ‘Don’t it always seem to go / that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?’
Well, nobody’s yet talking about extending a car park over the premises, but a really useful and much loved Broughton resource could still disappear if numbers don’t pick up soon.
Professor James Garden, Edinburgh World Heritage's new chair, marked the organisation’s 20th anniversary with a speech at the French Institute on George IV Bridge last night.
He outlined a vision for the city, the scale and challenge of a programme to preserve and celebrate it, and made trenchant observations about current development in the Waverley Valley.
On 6 December, Ediston again consulted the public about Orion Capital Managers’ ambitions for the 5.9-acre former RBS site between Dundas Street and King George V Park.
Controversy has attended the Edinburgh North & Leith General Election hustings run by the Spurtle on 28 November. That event is reported HERE.
Spurtle has kept a low profile on Twitter since, hoping the Twitter storm might blow over. It has not.
So, here is a statement to contextualise decisions made by the Editor before and after the event.
HUSTINGS
As you read this, copies of the December Spurtle are already to be found beautifying the barony like a newly washed flock of sheep by night all seated on the ground.
This month’s issue (and next month’s, come to think of it) begins by bleating on about the indefensible and how it is being defended, continues with the unforeseen effects of stationary vehicles, baas about democracy, then concludes with the underground and a bad fleece day turned strangely good.