'Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'.

No. 51 in an occasional photo-series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.

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Following publication of a Scottish Law Commission report and draft legislation commissioned by the Scottish government, two built-environment bodies are calling for a new law to make owners associations in tenements compulsory. 

Coffee and conversation. 

Spurtle ventures into the Deep South. 

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Last night in the City Chambers, the Cockburn Association celebrated its first 150 years of campaigning to preserve and enhance the best of the capital's built and natural environments. 

Members, supporters, local politicians and other interested invitees gathered to hobnob, listen to 3 speakers, and turn burgundy-red in the maroon glow of overly generous Edinburgh Council central heating.

Locals to object at hearing 

Planning officers recommend approving plans to develop the 2.7 ha former Royal Bank of Scotland site between Dundas St and King George V Park.

Orion Capital proposals include spending £250m to develop commercial space, 315 new homes (108 of them ‘affordable’) and purpose-built student accommodation for 591 people.

Charlie Ellis enjoys some Broughton byways 

My walk from Stockbridge toward Leith began not by the river but on a tangent: a gentle wander along Heriot Row and past the Scotland Street Little Library, a charming, if chronologically confusing, trove containing the latest Spurtle alongside ‘vintage’ issues from early 2012. 

Continuing along East Claremont Street, the morning’s rhythm broke only when a hearse emerged from Claremont Crescent: a sharp, unexpected moment of reflection.