Diggers move in to Edinburgh’s East Princes Street Gardens

EAST Princes Street Gardens looks more like a ploughed field as it waits to be returfed.
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It happens every year after the city’s Christmas events. But this time there is also work under way in the Gardens to create a new more accessible entrance to the Scottish National Gallery.

The £22 million gallery revamp sparked controversy last year when 52 trees were cut down as part of the preparations for re-landscaping with a zig-zag sloping pathway suitable for wheelchairs and prams.