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COUNCIL MAY SELL EYRE PLACE PLOT

Submitted by Editor on Mon, 23/01/2023 - 00:00

On Thursday this week (26 Jan), councillors on the Finance & Resources Cmte will consider selling off Council-owned land in Eyre Place.

The 552 m² site currently serves as garden space but was, until some point in the late 1980s, a tenement.

Before that, the area had been built on since at least 1804, when John Ainslie's 'Old and New Town of Edinburgh and Leith with the Proposed Docks' was published.

SPURTLE IS SITTING ON A NEWS-EGG

Submitted by Editor on Sun, 22/01/2023 - 22:28

It will hatch very shortly after midnight.

#Edinburgh

#hyperlocal

#news

MAKE SPACE FOR MORE READING

Submitted by Editor on Sat, 21/01/2023 - 13:21

Are you a magazine hoarder?

If so, Stockbridge Library can help you!

But, before you seek out help, you need to acknowledge that you have a problem. The realisation for me came when I discovered I had three copies of the same edition of the Sunday Times Magazine. As a New Year’s resolution, I’ve committed to substantially reducing my stockpile. The magazines I have broadly fall into three categories:

THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER

Submitted by Editor on Mon, 16/01/2023 - 11:39

The New Town & Broughton Community Council has identified aspects of continued and worsening deficiency in how Edinburgh’s World Heritage Site is managed.

The findings appeared in NTBCC’s detailed response to a consultation on the next 5-year WHS management plan conducted by the Council, Historic Environment Scotland and Edinburgh World Heritage.

BEAUTIFUL AND PURE BALTIC

Submitted by Editor on Sat, 14/01/2023 - 12:00

Inchcolm Abbey viewed (through gritted teeth) from near Aberdour.

Emotion, non-collection and lack of tranquility

Dear Spurtle,

I wrote this in desperation at yet another non-collection of our pre-paid garden waste bins. Does anyone else suffer this lack of 'service', I wonder?

I now have a RANTS file of trying to live with City of Edinburgh Council.

There, that's a bit better. But it doesn't solve the problem as they don't communicate and can't be got hold of. I hope your bins are regularly collected.

Mrs Moira Vaughan

(Pilrig House Close)

SHORT SHRIFT FOR PERMANENT POP-UPS

Submitted by Editor on Tue, 10/01/2023 - 16:39

In Issue 323 we reported Molmoor Waverley Ltd’s application to erect a temporary Festival Village above Waverley Mkt lasting 3 years (22/04639/FUL). In fact, it had already been built.