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IT LOOKS LIKE A GYRATORY. IT OPERATES AS A GYRATORY. IT'S STILL A GYRATORY
Today consultations continue over the future layout of Picardy Place.
Members of the public are invited to attend an event at the City Art Centre between 10am and 7pm, or another tomorrow at Broughton St Mary’s Church on Bellevue Crescent from 3pm till 7pm.
DAVID YOUNG CAN HARDLY CONTAIN HIS EXCITEMENT
1. Hullo – it looks like major work is underway in Edinburgh city centre.
2. What can it be?
THREE EVENTS, MANY MISGIVINGS
City of Edinburgh Council has announced times and venues for further consultation on the future design of Picardy Place.
‘Stakeholders’ will attend (by invitation only) an event in the City Chambers on 20 November.
Members of the public can go along to either an event at the City Art Centre on 21 November (10am–7pm) or another at Broughton St Mary’s Church in Bellevue Crescent on 22 November (3pm–7pm).
DECISION TOMORROW
A planning application for the erection of a ‘Festival Village’ above Waverley Mall will go before the Development Management Subcommittee tomorrow.
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING
Current City of Edinburgh Council policy is to add colour to all new bus and cycle lanes by embedding red stone chippings into normal grey tarmac, writes Tim Smith.
Provided this is done correctly, the advantage for the Council is minimal maintenance costs.
Applied red coatings (as used on the recently installed bike crossings on the tram route, for example) are much more visually striking, but are liable to wear away, often unevenly, needing costly replacement.
If something lang-leggit goes bump in the night tonight, don’t worry.
Chances are it’s either an absolutely enormous, parasitic crane-fly skittering about blindly in the dark, or the latest copy of the Spurtle arriving through a letterbox near you.
Issue 268 is bursting at the seams with news about people and places in your vicinity. We start with things which are: pleasingly shorter; able to be much improved; or moving forward with a hop, skip, and a jump.
X-RAY FINDS A QUEEN
A research project by the National Galleries of Scotland and the Courtauld Institute of Art has revealed a hitherto unknown and unfinished portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots.
The image lies beneath one, dating from 1589, by Adrian Vanson, of the Lord Chancellor of Scotland Sir John Maitland, 1st Lord Maitland of Thirlestane.
DRAFT 2 – MORE DETAIL
Transport & Environment Committee Convenor Lesley Macinnes has announced that the Council will prolong consultation about redesigning Picardy Place until January 2018.
The extension from an already extended December deadline is to improve debate about how the area may be used and improved.
Arachnophobes and the faint-hearted, look away now.
Broughton suddenly got scarier over the weekend with the annual arrival of Christina ‘Granny’ Thomson’s Halloween spook show.
A witch with bad teeth is central to the Bellevue Place design. She has clearly never heard about the deterrent properties of rowan trees.
She has for company a number of ghosts, dismembered heads and this limp-necked and limp-wristed skeleton who seems to have lost the will to live.
STRANGE ENCOUNTER OF THE HARE KIND
Spurtle met this unusual character propped up against the wall of Simpson & Marwick on Broughton Street last night.
Regrettably, he’d had a few.
To our enquiry about his well-being, the hare replied: ‘Aye, Ah’m sure ye kent, there wur times whin Ah chatted mair than Ah cuid chow’.
Spurtle nodded neutrally, wracking our brains to work out what he meant and whether we’d ever met him before.