Two depressing things witnessed – Shame on the City’s Council!

Two 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 at Pedestrian Crossing at Queensferry Street opposite Ryan’s Bar. (The same crossing that, even when the Green Man is on, has no traffic light to stop [...]

The dirty smell down Forth Ports way

Sniff, Sniff – Hmmmm.

It seems that the Forth Ports masterplan for Leith Docks which they claim has had “adequate” public consultation may not quite live up to the claims.
A quick look at the website of Art In Architecture at http://www.edinburgharchitecture.co.uk gives us details of a meeting which took place last week between AiA, Forth Ports [...]

Lying, Bugging, Bullying, Forgery, Trickery, Deceit, Manipulation and oor Teflon Don

News 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:
Anderson Strategy is closing as Donald Anderson has taken up a new position as Director of PPS Scotland. Go to their website for more information. This [...]

Mountgrange makes Private Eye

Mountgange’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 the trashing and tells us that concerned locals are now jumping mad:
Take the group’s work for developer Mountgrange, which wants to flatten homes and heritage sites [...]

Dick Dastardly shouts from the sidelines

Trevor ‘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 away.
Speaking to Johns Hopkins University Fellows meeting in Edinburgh yesterday he wen’t on to describe the ills he sees facing the City of Edinburgh.
He’s not [...]

Council’s scarecrow causes CardowNolan bovver.

With 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 seems that CardowNolan is not 100% wrong to be a bit unhappy.  It seems that £100,000 is a lot to pay for something that is not [...]