Hello,   Here’s your Clean Up Scotland update for events upcoming in your local authority area.  As expected it has been quieter over the winter period but as the weather promises to get better we are seeing more events getting registered every day.  We would like to hear from you about your plans for 2016 […]

Dear All   The Whitehouse Kitchen is on BBC Radio Scotland’s Kitchen Cafe TODAY, Thursday, at 1.30pm, helping celebrate the best of Scottish food. This excellent local community cafe is one of my absolute favourite places for lunch. See here: https://mobile.twitter.com/whitehouse70/status/699581723995217920/photo/1  Use playback if you miss it!   Do you have an old trumpet, saxophone, […]

The following applications have been decided: 15/05896/LBC has been granted: Internal alterations with bathroom and kitchen relocated and front door replaced, at 7C Brunstane Road North 15/05750/FUL has been granted: Conversion of flat roof to pitched roof over previous extension, at 115 Coillesdene Avenue 15/04747/LBC has been granted: To replace existing single glazed windows with […]

    Community Paths Grant Fund now open No Images? Click here     Money available to invest in your paths Hello, We are inviting community groups who would like to improve their local community paths to apply for a Community Paths Grant. We are offering individual grants of up to £1500 to help community […]

Dear All   The best feedback ever for me was this: “I always appreciate your email as it usually contains much of interest. This time I particularly appreciated the information on the Year of the Dad, which I was totally unaware of. I will now be making reference to it in my Father Of The […]

The following applications have been decided: 15/05739/LBC has been granted: Internal alterations to existing restaurant, at 25 – 25A Promenade 15/05726/FUL has been granted: Two storey extension to side elevation, at 27 Durham Road 15/03232/FUL has been granted: Remove existing wall and rebuild stone rubble wall; breakout concrete driveway, create new set of steps and […]

Newcraighall Road will be closed between Klondyke Street and Newhailes Road for carriageway resurfacing works from Monday, 8 February at 08:00 to Monday, 7 March at 1600. ​ ​

Dear All   Youth Vision do many good things to help young folk that drop out of school to get a new direction at their bothy in the Pentlands and they are having a fundraising ceilidh at The Beach Lane Social Club in Porty, TONight Friday 5 February (probably too late by the time you […]

The following applications have been decided: 15/05416/FUL has been granted: Proposal to demolish the existing extension to form a new kitchen & dining extension, at 4 St Mark’s Place 15/05355/LBC has been granted: Alterations to internal layout. existing single galzed timber sash and case windows to be removed and replaced with new double glazed timber […]

​£5 neutering for cats in Edinburgh & Lothians post code areas EH1-EH55 and ML12 from 1st February 2016 The charity Cats Protection is offering to pay for Edinburgh & Lothians cats within EH1-EH55 and ML12 postcodes to be snipped or spayed for just £5, eligible to cat owners in receipt of means tested benefits or […]