The Development Management Sub-Committee yesterday refused an application to remove/vary conditions on the potential running of a Taco Bell at Category B-listed 6 Picardy Place (formerly Bank of Scotland) (23/02655/FUL).
Edinburgh-based Broughton No 1 Ltd has applied to extend and alter the office building at 1 Broughton Market and convert it into a 9-bedroom aparthotel (23/06502/FUL) price-equivalent to 4 or 5-star hotel accommodation elsewhere in the city.
As you read this, advanced copies of the November Spurtle are already spreading across Broughton and beyond like bats flitting before a storm.
Issue 334 leaps into action with news of progress, variously slow, encouraging and decisive. We also feature a new face behind the foliage and a call for your jinglies as Christmas approaches.
Dunedin Street (Edinburgh) LLP proposes to build new purpose-built student accommodation with associated amenity space, cycle parking, landscaping and infrastructure on the site of a large modern garage and yard at 26 Dunedin Street (23/05027/FUL).
The plan is for 73 studio apartments across 6 storeys.
Dear Spurtle,
We had two new land-fill bins installed in our street on Wednesday. When I came out the flat this morning, both lids had been blown open overnight and one of the inset lids had been blown completely off its hinges. I have reported this to the Council.
I rescued the lid and some of the components – it is a very flimsy arrangement with a recycled plastic hinge rod in two sections and a poorly detailed metal plate fixing. This is what has come to bits and has also ripped through the plastic of the main lid.
Basically, it's a poor design which has failed at the first test – plenty room now for seagulls and rats etc. to get access …any sign of this occurring elsewhere?
Jerry Forde
East Claremont Street
One of Broughton's more colourful corners.
No. 27 in an occasional photo series celebrating Spurtleshire's street-name signs.
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In August this year, locals petitioned councillors about what they say is disruptive over-use of East London Street by HGVs and Lothian Buses. In response, officials have now compiled a report to go before the Transport & Environment Committee on 12 October.