Community campaigners have warned that proposals to build two five-storey blocks of flats will “dwarf” a listed former nursing home and “obliterate much of the landscape”.
The Capital’s under-pressure bin service relied on the goodwill of workers in agreeing to work on public holidays over the festive period – with a review ordered into the operation over Christmas.
Sports clubs have warned councillors that cutting £3.35m from Edinburgh Leisure’s budget will “endanger the health of vulnerable people” in the Capital.
EDINBURGH City Council leader Adam McVey has been accused of waging an “aggressive war on motorists” after revealing a workplace parking levy could cost drivers up to £15 million every year.
EDINBURGH’s homelessness crisis has been labelled a “human and financial disaster” after it was revealed the City Council has spent £28.1 million to meet an increased demand for B&B accommodation since 2016.
The Capital’s health and social care partnership will “set aside” £2m from its reserves in order to push ahead with a transformational plan that will include “community-based crisis management”.
The politician who is second in command for the Capital’s economy strategy has distanced herself from proposed £3 million of cuts which she claims will “set this city back enormously”.
Controversial plans to take trams to Newhaven will now carry a £207 million price tag – with the final business case costs soaring by an extra 25 per cent.
Health and social care bosses have been warned that being told to make more than £29 million of cuts in next year’s budget could stop “credible, realistic quality services” being delivered to patients across the Capital.
Edinburgh is to investigate whether intelligent traffic signals can be installed across the Capital – but calls from the Conservatives for a pilot scheme have been rejected.
EDINBURGH will become the first city in the UK to charge visitors a “tourist tax” after councillors yesterday gave the green-light to impose the £2 a night levy.
The city council will submit proposals to the Scottish Government to charge tourists £2 a night – and ask for assurances that the funding is additional to any budget cuts from Holyrood.
Proposals to knock down part of a children’s hospital to make way for student accommodation and housing have been approved – but permission to develop the former mortuary has been put on hold.
A well-known Edinburgh artist whose work has been displayed in top galleries including the Royal Scottish Academy will be stopped from selling his prints on Rose Street after 20 years following fears of “a severe risk to public safety”.
Services could have to be provided “from tents on The Meadows” if Edinburgh City Council pushes ahead with proposals to close buildings, a councillor has warned.
