Pennywell All Care Centre (formerly North West Partnership Centre) opened to the public on 18th December and will be officially opened later this month. The new Centre will provide a range of health and social care services, including new GP accommodation (Muirhouse Medical Group has opened a new branch surgery to complement their Muirhouse Avenue practice), podiatry and child health services. Continue reading Pennywell All Care Centre: what’s in that shiny new building?
Councillor Gavin Barrie, Housing and Economy Convener, has welcomed the announcement that Virgin Hotels has chosen Edinburgh for their first hotel outside America.
Virgin Hotels, the luxury lifestyle hotel brand by Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson, has announced plans to open at India Buildings in Edinburgh’s Victoria Street. Expected to open in 2020, the development marks an important moment in Virgin Hotels’ history and is expected to be joined by more UK and European projects in the coming years.
A dementia friendly ‘forget-me-not garden’ is to be planted in the grounds of a castle by the sea in North West Edinburgh. Continue reading Forget Me Not: dementia friendly garden for Lauriston Castle
Think again, pleads tour operator
The chief of a local tour company has appealed to councillors to reconsider plans to introduce a ‘tourist tax’. The city council estimates it must make savings of £150 million over the next five years and will propose a range of measures to address this in in next month’s budget. Councillors see the introduction of a ‘tourist tax’ as one way of avoiding even deeper cuts to council services, but business leaders have warned that any new surcharge on visitors to the city would see them vote with their wallets and choose to go elsewhere. Continue reading Tourist tax “far from welcoming”, says Timberbush Tours boss
The regeneration of Edinburgh’s Meadowbank has taken another step forward with planning applications submitted on Friday. Continue reading Meadowbank redevelopment moves forward
Edinburgh is now just weeks away from becoming Scotland’s first 20mph city as signs and lines start to go down for the final phase in a citywide rollout of calmer speeds. The final phase goes live on 5 March. Continue reading City nears 20mph completion
Homeless families will no longer be living in bed and breakfast accommodation by June this year. That was one of the outcomes agreed at the first meeting of the city council’s homelessness task force at the end of last year, and a report outlining next steps has now been agreed by councillors at the Housing and Economy Committee.
Continue reading No more B & Bs for homeless families, says council task force
Community members have officially marked the completion of phase two of Edinburgh’s major Water of Leith Flood Prevention Scheme.
Pupils from Roseburn Primary School joined Transport and Environment Convener, Councillor Lesley Macinnes, to cut the ribbon on a new bridge across the river, built as part of the City of Edinburgh Council’s multi-million pound project, which has been delivered significantly under budget. Continue reading Second phase of flood prevention scheme completed
The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo and City of Edinburgh Council have announced the latest beneficiaries of the city’s Culture Fund. Among them is North Edinburgh Arts, who receive £5000 to work in a new collaboration with Magnetic North to develop a new piece of family music-theatre.
Continue reading Tattoo Culture Fund cash for North Edinburgh project
