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There's been a major twist in the battle for the old Royal High School’s future shape and use.
Duddingston House Properties (DHP) has requested a delay to its appeal while it submits a new proposal (see pdf at foot of page).
Recent inspections of the North Bridge have revealed that sections of its decorative panels are in poor condition and need attention.
City of Edinburgh Council has drafted in specialist contractors for the job, and work began last night to wrap the structure’s southern span. Completion of the wrapping here is expected to take another 3 weeks.
Netting is to be installed under the bridge to allow engineers to safely access other areas. Market Street is likely to be closed briefly during this period, and the taxi rank has been moved accordingly.
As you read this, literally numbers of highly trained volunteers are preparing to distribute copies of the September Spurtle the length and breadth of Broughton and beyond.
You, too, will soon have in your hands this gossamer-light publication, slim and convenient but thick-as-a-brick with heavyweight north-central Edinburgh news.
ABERCROMBY PLACE OFFICE TO RETURN TO RESIDENTIAL USE
Planning permission and listed building consent has been granted for a new development at 16 Abercromby Place (Ref. 16/02440/LBC; 16/02439/FUL).
The proposal is to retain the listed façade, but to remove the more modern office structure behind and redevelop it as11 apartments.
At its August meeting, Leith Central Community Council voted to back locals in a bid to bolster the fairly newly formed Pilrig Conservation Area (Breaking news, 9.8.13).
‘PAPERWORK 3’ AT THE EDINBURGH SKI CLUB
The small scale and intimate surroundings of this airy Howe Street basement perfectly suit the return of three Working Lines Collective artists to the Fringe.
All have exhibited here in previous summer exhibitions, and one re-encounters their work with a sense of familiarity, affection and interest in how their style has developed over the intervening months. Described here are a few personal favourites from a total of 43 new works.
Thank you to everyone who joined in the Edinburgh Safari (7) in search of three-dimensional capital cocks.
There was some confusion regarding stand-up comedians and jugglers, but most of you correctly understood that it was the feathered variety in which we were most interested.
Undertaken to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, A Knavish Lad is an inspired retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Combining traditional intaglio printmaking with cutting-edge laser technology, the works on show in McNaughtan’s Bookshop & Gallery took Edinburgh-based artist Joanna Robson two years to complete.
New Town & Broughton Community Council has cancelled the extraordinary public meeting that it had scheduled for Monday 22 August.
NTBCC had intended to discuss Royal Bank of Scotland’s detailed planning application for the site bounded by Dundas Stree, Fettes Row/Royal Crescent, Eyre Place and King George V Park. But since the RBS proposal will not now be submitted until early September, the meeting has been called off.
Councillors on the Development Management Sub-Committee this afternoon granted planning permission and listed building consent for the St Mary’s Music School modification of the old Royal High School at 5–7 Regent Road (see Breaking news, 15.8.16).
Officials had earlier reported that the proposal should be judged in terms of multiple determining issues: