PILRIG GARDENS
April sunshine. Spring in the step.
No. 8 in an occasional photo series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
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April sunshine. Spring in the step.
No. 8 in an occasional photo series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
#Edinburgh
#hyperlocal
#news
The idea that visiting a gallery can be a healing balm is manifested in Shipping Roots, by Keg de Souza. This is the current exhibition at Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden.
From the first moment you enter the building, your nostrils and lungs are filled with the deeply calming aroma of eucalyptus. Eucalyptus is widely used as a natural cold remedy, by decreasing mucus and expanding the bronchi and bronchioles of your lungs.
Saddened to hear Narcissus Flowers has shut permanently at short notice.
Shop ceased trading on Thursday 30 March.
Horrible shock for staff (informed the day before). Big loss for Broughton Street.
More on this story in Issue 328, published on 1 May.
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This is a longer version (with new reactions afterwards) of the article which appeared in Issue 327.
Readers are doubtless familiar with the recent background of short-term lets (STLs) in Edinburgh – namely, that following the passing by the Scottish Government of a law enabling local authorities to designate 'Short-term let planning control areas', City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) immediately announced the establishment of such a control area, covering the whole local-authority area, which came into force on 5 September 2022.
Keeping it real.
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This article is taken from the North Briton (14 January 1871). A condensed version of it appeared in our Issue 327 (1 April 2023).
A colourful Edinburgh entrepreneur plans luxury underground car parking in the heart of Broughton.
Gorodskoy Kòsmónavt (55) means to convert vacant voids and vaults below the road surface of Mansfield Place into an exclusive 2-storey complex with 150 parking spaces, luxury valeting and high-speed electric-vehicle charge points.
Private toilets and recycling facilities complete the package.
Access is proposed by ramps penetrating the unused central part of the carriageway (see foot of page). Test-trenches have already established the scheme’s viability.
As you read this, advance copies of the April Spurtle are already disappearing from local shelves like daffs at night from municipal flowerbeds.
This month we kick off with campaign news and determined locals who won’t take being ignored for an answer. We continue with the latest on efforts to keep a dear green space available to the local community, dip briefly into follicles, and conclude Page 1 with a sneak look at a project the developers would rather we didn’t bang on about.