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 […]

A FORTH coming nightmare

A spokesman for Forth Ports said: “The commitment of Forth Ports to safety is such that we hold annual exercises - not every three years as required. By holding regular exercises, we ensure high standards of safety.”
Well that’s not exactly how it turned out when they had their last exercise code-named Black Wednesday on October […]

Miss, Miss! The leader is late!

Finally, in an obvious about face, the council NuLeader Ewan Aitken has decided that the Edinburgh will finally join Fife and East Lothian Councils to go for legal action to stop the nonsensical ship-to-ship oil transfers in the Forth.
Just last week the ruling Labour council hadn’t decided whether it was good nor bad.  A source in the […]

Locals have shamed the council

Again let down by the council, local leithers are getting together to do their work. As previously reported here on ‘Edinburgh Sucks!’, the city council have 10 years of trash sitting sitting in the stretch of water from Great Junction Street to the docks. Forth Ports Authority which also have some responsibility in […]

10 years of floating rubbish

The tourist industry in Leith has had enough of the decade of floating rubbish going from Great Junction Street to the Docks. It seems with all the talk of the rich getting richer in Leith, the councillors have put their heads down and sent the spokeswoman out to say “We have been […]

Leithers have a different view

It started with a letter to the Evening News:
Leith needs young families living in affordable housing, not get-rich Charlies. Leith is already showing these scars by creating ghetto areas where the old Leith and the new Leith are already a million miles apart. - More Here
Then the follow-up from Slimeball Coonsillar Gordon Munro saying:
“The Leith […]