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Tesco Stores Ltd wants to extend its delivery hours at the Broughton Road store by two hours on a Sunday morning (Ref 18/00667/FUL).
Delivery hours here are currently controlled under the terms of Tesco’s earlier planning permssion (Ref. 09/00039/FUL) which restricts them to 7.30am–8pm (Mon.–Sat.), and 12pm–6pm (Sun.). The new Sunday start-time would be 10am.
Why the change?
As you read this, thousands of specially designed snow-resistant Spurtles are already settling in drifts across Broughton and beyond.
The March issue comes packed with news of a storm, , tourists, a stubborn returner and questionable coffee.
We scale the heights of planning applications and plumb the depths of local pond life. We anticipate a new route across town without cars, celebrate karma on Regent Terrace, and pay homage to cures for flatulency and biliary obstructions nostalgically recalled on Broughton Street.
McEwan Fraser Legal seeks retrospective permission for nine advertisements outside its HQ at 130 East Claremont Street (Ref. 18/00354/ADV).
These consist of:
Onlookers outside the Balmoral Hotel today could be forgiven for thinking that Rocco Forte had introduced a new, SAS-inspired initiative to speed-up room-service.
In fact, the daring workers, in day-glo, Guantanamo Bay orange overalls, were either cleaning windows, preparing window frames, touching up render, reattaching loose stonework, or removing the Christmas lights.
We put all five suggestions to various Balmoral staff this lunchtime, all of whom replied with an enigmatic smile and the catch-all explanation ‘refurbishment’.
POLICE SEEK HELP AND RELEASE IMAGE
Police Scotland issued the following press notice today. We reproduce it unedited and in full.
Police in Edinburgh investigating a serious assault in the city centre have released an image of a man they believe may be able to help with their inquiries.
The incident took place around 7.50pm on Saturday 3 February near to the Phoenix Bar on Broughton Street.
A 51-year-old man was assaulted and sustained serious facial injuries.
What began as a bad week for tree-lovers has continued with further sad news in Broughton today.
Yesterday, work on the new Picardy Place gyratory was preceded by felling of the trees outside St Mary’s RC Cathedral. They were chopped in advance of the bird-nesting season.
Today came news that a mature ash on Mansfield Place shows evidence of fruiting bodies of Armillaria (Honey Fungus).
CAMPAIGNER PETER WILLIAMSON REFLECTS
On 25 January, the Council’s Transport & Environment Committee approved a revised design for Picardy Place centred upon a three-lane ‘gyratory’ traffic management system.
Opposition to the possible move of Gaelic Medium Education (GME) to Drummond Community High School has stiffened.
Parent bodies at two primary feeder schools and Drummond itself have each issued strong statements against the proposal by the Council. (You can read the statements here, here and here. A statement from Abbeyhill parents has yet to materialise.)
As you read this, the February Spurtle has not only rattled through the presses but leapt off the floor and into the arms of our black-spandex-clad ninja distribution operatives.
You won’t see or hear them, but over the next two days they’ll be fanning out across the barony and beyond, delivering hyper-local news from odd angles about and to the places other papers rarely reach.
Issue 270 begins with the elephant in the room, continues with a notable bear, and concludes by considering a potential cuckoo.
The whole kit and caboodle