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Only a few months have passed since the new pavement in front of Ziggurat’s student accommodation in Shrubhill Place was opened to pedestrians, writes Maria Hart.
But already, dozens of the slabs in that section are badly broken. [Spurtle today counted 176.]
Row upon row of them are cracked, some horizontally and others vertically.
Even one of the bike racks has come loose after the slab to which it is attached broke off completely [see photo above].
Two weeks ago we launched the third of our Edinburgh safaris by inviting readers to search for dogs.
CITY LANDMARK RETURNS IN MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
After an absence of four years, Forsyth’s Finial returned to the Edinburgh skyline in the small hours of this morning.
The operation involved around 30 personnel, at least six HGVs, the shutting-down of tram power cables, and the closure of Princes Street from the Apple Store to Waverley Bridge between 11.30pm and up to 4.30am.
Gilbert Bayes’s 1907 decorative sculpture began the evening in two parts on the back of a long loader.
Ahead of Edinburgh’s municipal elections in 1919, the Scotsman reported on a Broughton ward hustings attended by a large audience in the Free Gardeners’ Institute at 14 Picardy Place on 22 October.
The principal themes discussed back then are startlingly familiar today.
Escalating costs
One of the things we like about living in this part of Edinburgh is that you don’t have to conform.
Doing your own thing is positively encouraged.
And as evidence of this, we cite (and applaud) the way the beany people at Artisan Roast regularly encourage us to wake up and smell the coffee, to mix our metaphors, and swim against the tide of history …
A leading construction and procurement industry professional has been appointed to chair the independent inquiry into the Edinburgh PP1 school buildings fiasco.
The architect John Cole brings 30 years’ experience to the role, with particular expertise in improving the quality of new, public-sector buildings’ design, procurement and construction.
City of Edinburgh Council is consulting about plans to tender for additional major events in public parks from 2017 to 2020.
It seems to us that any comments you may have are more likely to ‘shape’ events than to stop them from happening in the first place, but we may be wrong.
Venues, events, times
THE CARSON CLARK GALLERY
It’s not that often that I feel like a Mongol emperor, believe it or not, writes David Hill. Today, however, happens to be one of those rare occasions.
Finding oneself among the cartographical delights of Carson Clark Gallery’s new Northumberland Street shop is rather like descending into the domain of a New Town Marco Polo. This makes me, as far as I’m concerned, an inquiring Kublai Khan.
David Sterratt, Chair of Drummond Parent Council, writes:
On Monday 29th May, Jodie Hannan joined Drummond Community High School as Headteacher. She has taken over from acting Headteacher Sue Cook, who had been seconded from Leith Academy since August 2014.
Jodie was a Depute Head at Dunfermline High School for almost five years, where she was Head of House for 400 of Dunfermline’s 1,550 pupils.
THEY KNOW, YOU KNOW — AND SO SOON MAY OTHERS
When we reported the forthcoming roll-out of free Wi-fi across the city centre in Issue 152, we foresaw mixed consequences – most of them welcome.
However, a sceptical reader has been delving into the small print since, and finds reasons to be cautious.