City of Edinburgh Council Planning officials do not have a problem with the colour of signage used at the new Coop on McDonald Road, which opened this morning.
How wise. Jolly clear and cheerful it is too.
How very unlike the nasty 'bright green' signage of Real Foods on Broughton Street, which is an obvious affront to Civilisation and must be stopped.
[NB: Colours have not been manipulated, boosted or otherwise artificially tweaked in either picture.]
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theSpurtle Broughton Spurtle: @papawasarodeo It was YOU who started on Hunter wellies/class. Spurtle was trying to free green lentils etc. from socio-economic shackles.
papawasarodeo papa was a rodeo: glad to have found @theSpurtle's hot buttons: class and colour
EvolutionDezine Neale Gilhooley: Re the colour of Real Foods green, it is clealry not as intrusive as Primark's electric green, nor as prominent
theSpurtle Broughton Spurtle: Thanks to @EyeEdinburgh for lyrical thought on Planning: bit.ly/gM8WF3
noelchidwick Noel Chidwick: chortle!
EyeEdinburgh EdinburghEye: It ain't easy being green.
theSpurtle Broughton Spurtle: There's nothing intrinsically 'middle-class' about non-supermarket food retailers in general or Real Foods in particular.
theSpurtle Broughton Spurtle: Heritage standards are political as well as aesthetic/academic: e.g. behind-the-scenes approval then disapproval of Olympic Rings.
theSpurtle Broughton Spurtle: Vinegar-faced heritage officialdom is as corrosive for historic cities as supposed lapses in good taste.
theSpurtle Broughton Spurtle: But useful planning regulations – like good refereeing – need intelligent, sensitive, pragmatic, case-by-case application.
theSpurtle Broughton Spurtle: Damaging fixings to listed buildings, where proved, of course need to be sorted out.
allytibbitt Ally Tibbitt: No, only nice middle class shops shd be able to choose their colour scheme ;)
allytibbitt Ally Tibbitt: It isn't just a colour goddamn it! I shall fight to the death to defend the integrity of the planning system...
EyeEdinburgh EdinburghEye: So many "worst decisions" -when has any council ever managed to say No to a supermarket & make it stick?
papawasarodeo papa was a rodeo: now, if they'd done it Hunter Welly or Range Rover green....
theSpurtle Broughton Spurtle: CEC can't afford to contest many Planning cases; lacks teeth to defend wee shops.
allytibbitt Ally Tibbitt: Yes it's depressing isn't it? Perhaps we should abandon the planning system to make it fair?
EyeEdinburgh EdinburghEye: Somehow #supermarkets ALWAYS get planning permission to do what they want.
EyeEdinburgh EdinburghEye
Edinburgh Council are OK with @scotmid_food having a new bright green sign, but not @realfoods_uk
theSpurtle Broughton Spurtle: Points about conservation area/listed bldng true. But it's JUST a shade of green!
papawasarodeo papa was a rodeo: sorry for being prissy but... the Co-op isn't in a conservation area either.
allytibbitt Ally Tibbitt: One sign is not on a listed building & has planning permission & the other not. Ppl want inconsistency not CEC
MichaelMacLeod1 Michael MacLeod: Hats off to @TheSpurtle for highlighting this ridiculous @Edinburgh_CC planning situation
theSpurtle Broughton Spurtle: @papawasarodeo Can't remember that one, but in principle not against lemon either. Am pro-heritage, anti-mimby pimby architectural pedantry.
papawasarodeo papa was a rodeo:@theSpurtle were they being prissy about the lemon paint on Waterloo Place/Leith St last year too? Or is it just green that you like?
papawasarodeo papa was a rodeo: @theSpurtle prissy is the least of their sins.
theSpurtle Broughton Spurtle: @papawasarodeo True, but still it's just green. Georgians would have used brighter paints if they'd had the technology. I find CEC prissy.