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POLICE PRIORITIES IN EDINBURGH

How could the Police, Council, and Fire Scotland make you feel safer in the city centre?That's the question being asked this afternoon…
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PLANNING UPDATE (12.11.13)

A dance studio is proposed as part of the new Block C development at 19 Beaverbank Place (Ref. 13/04167/FUL).  Behind the proposal is KLG (…
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PROMOTING PATHS TO PARTICIPATION

Local politics, especially community council meetings, could do with more involvement from young people, writes Ella Taylor-Smith. However, it is not…
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REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY ON BELLEVUE CRESCENT

Service personnel, past and present, members of the Royal British Legion, their families and friends joined scouts and locals in a Remembrance Sunday…
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HOW COOL ... IT'S HOWE STREET

Struggling to keep warm this morning was local artist Susie Keith, pictured here capturing a New Town resident’s Howe Street home en plein…
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PILE DRIVING IN BELLEVUE ROAD

Work starts in the old carpark at 115 Bellevue Road. This was previously owned by City of Edinburgh Council and used by people working in the…
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LOCALS JUBILANT AT McDONALD RD PLANNING VICTORY

Redevelopment of empty Council-owned premises at 154 McDonald Road as 73 private bedsits (Refs 13/02458/FUL; 13/02459/LBC) has been rejected.…
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SLOWLY, STEP BY STEP – THE RECENT RESHAPING OF KING GEORGE V PARK

The Council's parks unit, responsible for the recent revamp of the play area in King George V Park, has received a complaint from a resident who…
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MARVELLING AT THE MENAGERIE

Sculptor Barbara Franc’s work – which shows at the Union Gallery on Broughton Street this month – embodies a paradox.At one level, she has an uncanny…
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YOUNG AT HEART DEFY WET SPELL

They say witches come out in all weathers, and this is indeed true in Broughton! writes Broughton Project Group secretary Meg Nelson. A Family…
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