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Controversial student housing plans which sparked a public backlash have been withdrawn by developers after a storm of protest.

Every person living in a tenement in Scotland could be forced to pay into a common fund for repairs following the success of a £1 million trial scheme in Edinburgh.

Congestion charging is on the agenda again for Edinburgh after council bosses refused to rule out bringing forward plans to help reduce traffic in the Capital – 14 years after the idea was rejected by the public.

CAPITAL residents are to be asked whether polluting cars should be included in a citywide restriction.

eDINBURGH’S controversial £25-a-year ‘garden tax’ has been halted “in principle” after opposition councillors teamed up to defeat the SNP-Labour administration in a crunch vote.

A campaigner was kicked out of a council meeting and police were called following “utterly shameful” comments about Ruth Davidson’s baby.

Money paid to the council for roads, schools and other infrastructure improvements by developers has “languished unused” for years and not been spent on public services.

DOZENS of properties across the capital thought to be operating at Airbnb-style short-term lets against strict planning rules have been hit with warning letters from the City Council.

West Lothian has been revealed as Scotland’s greenest area, according to new figures.

The Capital will aim to become carbon neutral by 2030 after council leaders set one of the most ambitious targets globally – 15 years earlier than the Scottish Government’s ambition.

BUS chiefs are to be carpeted by council chiefs amid an ongoing a row over space for buggies and wheelchairs on Lothian’s new 100-seater fleet.

Transport chiefs have been urged to “avoid playing a game of SimCity” over radical proposals to change how people move about the city centre.

A CONTROVERSIAL £50m hotel and homes development plan for Leith Walk has been dealt a hammer blow after university bosses pulled the plug on their backing.

Lothian Buses chiefs have warned that ambitious plans to overhaul how people move around the city centre are “likely to have a substantial impact on our operations”.

Plans to moor five floating hotels on the Union Canal have been sunk by councillors over fears high school pupils would not be able to access the water.

Motorists have been warned they have five years to scrap out of date cars to avoid facing “substantial” fines to drive in the city centre under draft proposals which have been labelled “half-hearted” by campaigners – while industry leaders have warned bus services could be reduced or removed as a result.

The council’s long-term ambition is to extend the tram line to create a city network.

Transport chiefs have revealed a radical and highly ambitious strategy to “create a city centre that truly puts people first” in the biggest overhaul of how people will move around the Capital in living memory.