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Readers will remember our report in late November about the 18.5m telecommunications mast newly installed on Broughton Road.
The siting had caused upset among many locals who felt its positioning next to the Gretna Rail Disaster memorial in Rosebank Cemetery was unsightly and disrespectful.
We were first alerted to the red-shoed crow by @markalexander_m on Twitter four days ago.
It appears along the cycle path between Tesco and St Mark’s Park, just after Warriston Junction, on the bridge over the southern approach to the cemetery.
By the time Spurtle passed this lunchtime, the bird had been joined by words.
Whether these are by the original Mystery Mosaicist or somebody else is unclear. But it’s an odd phenomenon we’d like to see more of in 2019.
The reality of this season of goodwill often fails to match the expectation, but here instead is a minor cause for festive optimism.
We first featured news of a bright new future for the police box on Broughton Road in December 2015.
Local resident Yosef Mazon was successfully seeking planning permission to convert the redundant structure into a takeaway coffee and food outlet.
Today is a milestone in Broughton’s recent cultural history.
When its doors close at 6pm this evening, it will be the end of Edinburgh Printmakers’ three decades at 23 Union Street.
Workshop, retail and gallery spaces will transfer to a new, bigger and better facility at Castle Mills in Fountainbridge. We wish all concerned an unstressful voyage and successful reberth in spring 2019.
Judging by the content of social media over recent weeks, we’re all going to hell in a handcart.
Edinburgh citizens are railing about the pros and cons of ever increasing tourism, the privatisation of public space, the ruin of residential amenity. It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, with everyone bickering with everyone else in confined spaces.
Many locals have a soft spot for Broughton Place.
There’s a satisfying confluence to it, an odd higgledy-piggledy, tumble-down descent leading to a pool of Georgian grandeur at the bottom.
Here, in Kirkwood’s 1819 Plan and Elevation, we see it in the years before completion, a rather charming guddle of homes, gardens, woodyards, and older structures gradually being subsumed under the New Town.
Edinburgh Police today named the girl whose body was found on Calton Hill on 8 December.
Fifteen-year-old Mhari O’Neill’s death is currently unexplained, and Police are asking for the public’s help.
The Willowbrae teenager was reported missing in the early hours of Saturday, and a member of the public later found her body at 6.30am.
Scottish Gas Networks has announced plans for a major 26-week project to replace mains along Broughton Street and two offshoots.
Phase 1 work will start on 7 January and last for 12 weeks. Broughton Street will be reduced to one lane travelling southwards (uphill) for the duration.
Deliveries to shops on Broughton Street will be possible using the inside northbound lane. Some parking restrictions will apply on Albany Street.
Phase 2 (London Street) and Phase 3 (Forth Street) will follow, extending the project for a further 14 weeks.
Save Leith Walk campaigners have urged locals to reject Drum Property’s revised scheme for Stead’s Place.
As reported HERE last week, the developers have tweaked their first design, most notably by reducing the height of proposed buildings on Leith Walk by one storey.
SOAP AND SUCTION IN TESCO CAR PARK
Waves Consultancy Ltd seeks planning permission to construct and operate a hand car wash and valeting service in the basement car park of Tesco, at 7 Broughton Road (Ref. 18/09592/FUL).