IT AIN'T OVER TILL IT'S OVER
HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF AS FARCE ON EAST SCOTLAND STREET LANE
The latest planning application for the lockup / flat / AirBnB / Class 2 office / lockup on East Scotland Street Lane has been refused (Ref. 18/03340/FUL).
Breaking news
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SCUNNERED?
Many thanks to local reader John Hein, who today sent us this photograph of a sign attached to a London Road bus stop.
As Mr Hein observes, ‘Hell hath no fury like a bus user endampened.’
For anyone having trouble with the image, we reproduce the text below (minus the relevant official's phone numbers).
LEITH WALK HUSTINGS – WHO SAID WHAT
Around 120 people filled the Thomas Morton Hall at Leith Theatre last night for an event billed as the Save Leith Walk (SLW) hustings.
For a by-election on the brink of trams, budget cuts, and Brexit, the atmosphere was remarkably calm and good-natured.
This mood was fostered in part by a celebratory presentation at the start of the evening, which outlined highlights of the (so far successful) campaign to oppose Drum’s development at Stead’s Place, and pointed the way towards future community pro-activeness on planning and a range of other issues.
TRAMS TO NEWHAVEN – LOCALS LAY DOWN TERMS
Community Councils Together on Trams (CCTT) is a coalition of the four community councils most impacted by the proposed tramway extension route: New Town & Broughton CC, Leith Central CC, Leith Links CC, and Leith/Harbour & Newhaven CC.
Anticipating a decision by the full Council to approve the Final Business Case for extending the tramway on 14 March, CCTT this morning issued a statement.
NEW SCHEME FOR SLOPING SITE
Architects LBA have put forward new plans for a development of six 1-bedroom apartments on a narrow sloping site between 13 Claremont Crescent and Broughton Road (Ref. 19/00451/FUL; Breaking news, 22.8.17).
It falls within the New Town Conservation Area. LBA are acting as agent for an Edinburgh-based individual.
LEITH WALK BY-ELECTION CANDIDATES NAMED
Eleven candidates will contest the forthcoming Leith Walk (Ward 12) by-election on 11 April.
They are, in alphabetical order:
TENEMENT HACKS: STAIR LIGHTING TIMESWITCHES
If you live in a tenement, you may well have been frustrated by power cuts affecting the time the stair lights come on and go off.
The reason power cuts affect lighting timing is because the timing on each stair is controlled by an ‘Astro clock’, or timeswitch, which turns the lights on and off at the right time of day for the time of year.
ANNANDALE STREET CLOSED FOR SUSPICIOUS ITEM
Police in Scotland issued a statement this evening regarding the incident in Annandale Street this afternoon.
We reproduce it in full.
A spokesperson said: 'Police in Edinburgh were called to Annandale Street around 11.50am on Friday 1st March following a report of a suspicious item.
'A cordon was established as precaution while the EOD carried out an assessment of this.
'The item was found not to pose any risk to the public and the community are thanked for their co-operation.
IT WAS FUN TO STAY AT THE YMCA
This is a full version of the article which was reproduced (in shortened form) in Issue 282. It comes from the Scotsman, 14 March 1919.
AMERICAN HUT IN EDINBURGH.
NEW LEAVE MECCA FOR UNITED STATES SERVICE MEN.
ISSUE 282 – OUT TOMORROW!
It’s nearly March, and copies of the latest Spurtle have already begun bouncing about the barony like spring hares on a garden trampoline.
Issue 282 of your action-packed local stirrer begins with big decisions, bad baking, and a by-election … plus high jinks among pond life.
It continues with buses, borrowing, and a welcome absence of bollards, bids farewell to the lady boys of Pilrig, ruminates on leviathans, and puts in a good word for scruffy unfortunates.