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Planning Dept. Archive
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Friends of Craighouse: Reposted with permission.
Posted on June 21, 2012 | No CommentsWe feel the Friends of Craighouse are being bullied. In support of their movement, we are happy to give their cause more internet real estate. -
Two depressing things witnessed – Shame on the City’s Council!
Posted on May 11, 2009 | 4 CommentsTwo depressing things witnessed by me today as a result of poorly planned and executed tramworks fiasco / traffic diversions: Sad thing #1) Sight-impaired lady with white stick patiently standing... -
Lying, Bugging, Bullying, Forgery, Trickery, Deceit, Manipulation and oor Teflon Don
Posted on October 24, 2007 | No CommentsNews out yesterday is that the former NuLabour council leader Donald “Teflon Don” Anderson is giving up his newly-formed consultancy over at http://www.andersonstrategy.co.uk/. The website gives users the following message:... -
Mountgrange makes Private Eye
Posted on August 31, 2007 | No CommentsMountgange’s PR consultants, PPS Group who carried out the public consultation on the trashing of the Canongate were recently trashed on Channel 4′s Dispatches programme. Private Eye have now continued with... -
Dick Dastardly shouts from the sidelines
Posted on June 11, 2007 | No CommentsTrevor ‘Dick Dastardly’ Davies, the former planning leader, dismally unsuccessful candidate for council leadership and failed-at-the-ballot-box ex-councillor has not shut up just because his electorate have told him to go... -
Council’s scarecrow causes CardowNolan bovver.
Posted on June 8, 2007 | No CommentsWith the passing of Shami KhaNolan into the real world comes the rise of SNP leader Steve CardowNolan and he is not a happy camper. With just slight investigation it... -
We had to send an email
Posted on April 27, 2007 | No CommentsWhen we had it leaked that Alan Henderson, head of planning at the council got an email regarding one of our posts – we had to send one as well. ——– Original... -
Bunty Backhander and the Wardie Crescent development
Posted on April 27, 2007 | No CommentsIt seems that residents of Wardie Crescent are up in arms because one of their neighbours is building six houses in their back garden and didn’t go to the bother... -
Council leader has his head in the sand
Posted on February 23, 2007 | No CommentsRoll on May. With the news today that one of the UK’s leading retailers of fine jewellery and silverware, Mappin & Webb, are going to close their doors in George... -
Defending the indefensible
Posted on February 5, 2007 | No CommentsCouncil Leader Ewan ‘Rasputin’ Aitken comes into today’s newspaper defending the indefensible, namely, Trevor ‘the finger’ Davies’ acceptance of free champagne from the people who will be coming to his... -
FingerGate begs Code of Conduct questions
Posted on December 14, 2006 | No CommentsA quick perusal of the The Councillors Code of Conduct leaves a lot of unanswered questions about the future of Trevor Davies in his role as planning supremo. The code... -
Trevor Davies gives 2 year-old the finger!
Posted on December 13, 2006 | No CommentsCity planning convener, the person who came last in the recent TWAT Party leadership race and TWAT Extrordinaire, Trevor Davies last night both stunned and shocked carol singing protesters, including... -
Trevor Davies hissy fit number…. bloody infinity
Posted on November 12, 2006 | No CommentsYet again for the umteenth fime Trevor Davies the planning chief who tells lies on Talk 107 (CouncilFM) about this site writes to the Evening News this time complaining that... -
Waverley Market lease 1p a year for 206 Years
Posted on October 16, 2006 | 1 CommentWhat a bargain. Edinburgh Council leased the common good-owned (i.e. ours – the citizens) site of the Waverley Market for 206 years at the rate of ONE PENCE per year!... -
Another Labour councillor resorts to character assassination
Posted on October 4, 2006 | No CommentsTwice disgraced labour councillor Shami Khan, who himself has been accused of racism by members of the south asian community in Edinburgh has like other labour councillors resorted to character... -
Skatepark comments illegally cut short by council
Posted on August 4, 2006 | No CommentsIt appears people wishing to comment on the skatepark have had their right taken away from them at the last minute by the council. Visitors at the city council’s planning... -
Dick Dastardly has another hissy fit
Posted on July 31, 2006 | No CommentsTrevor “(little) Dick Dastardly” Davies yet again uses the letters page of the Evening News to have another huge hissy fit without reading the article correctly or even addressing it’s... -
Obviously Dick Dastardly does have friends
Posted on July 11, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that potential leader of the City’s council, Trevor “(little) Dick Dastardly” Davies, the Planning convenor, has friends in interesting places because he is allowing Regenerate Scotland to continue... -
New Leader Vol. I
Posted on July 4, 2006 | No CommentsSo this will be the summer of long knives with the city leader up for grabs in August. Â Â Trevor ‘(little) Dick Dastardly’ Davies the man jokingly called the...







