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URGENT STREET CLUTTER ALERT

 ADVERTISING DRUM PROPOSAL FOR St ANDREW SQUARE  While Edinburgh collectively takes stock/girds loins/throws hands up in despair over the…
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COUNCIL TWEAKS PICARDY PLACE PLAN

 IT LOOKS LIKE A GYRATORY. IT OPERATES AS A GYRATORY. IT'S STILL A GYRATORY Today consultations continue over the future layout of Picardy…
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IT'S BEGINNING TO FEEL A LOT LIKE …

DAVID YOUNG CAN HARDLY CONTAIN HIS EXCITEMENT 1. Hullo – it looks like major work is underway in Edinburgh city centre.…
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PICARDY PLACE CONSULTATIONS ANNOUNCED

THREE EVENTS, MANY MISGIVINGS City of Edinburgh Council has announced times and venues for further consultation on the future design of Picardy Place…
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SHANTY-TOWN EDINBURGH

 DECISION TOMORROW A planning application for the erection of a ‘Festival Village’ above Waverley Mall will go before the Development…
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CYCLISTS NEED CLARITY

 CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING Current City of Edinburgh Council policy is to add colour to all new bus and cycle lanes by embedding red stone…
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ISSUE 268 – OUT TOMORROW!

If something lang-leggit goes bump in the night tonight, don’t worry. Chances are it’s either an absolutely enormous, parasitic crane-fly…
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PAINT CONCEALS A WELL-KENT FACE

 X-RAY FINDS A QUEEN A research project by the National Galleries of Scotland and the Courtauld Institute of Art has revealed a hitherto…
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PICARDY PLACE COUNTER-PROPOSAL

 DRAFT 2 – MORE DETAIL Transport & Environment Committee Convenor Lesley Macinnes has announced that the Council will prolong…
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GETTING THE CREEPS IN BELLEVUE

Arachnophobes and the faint-hearted, look away now. Broughton suddenly got scarier over the weekend with the annual arrival of Christina ‘Granny…
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