The Edinburgh Reporter June 2023 issue

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Editor: Phyllis Stephen

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THE END IS IN SIGHT as Edinburgh

Trams will begin carrying paying passengers

on the new part of the line from noon on 7

June. It has been a long haul, with more than

a few hiccups along the way. Pre-pandemic

estimates of 15.7 million passenger journeys

on the line between the airport and

Newhaven could well be exceeded. The

Victorian Pilrig Wheels have been preserved

on Iona Street as a nod to the past.

On our website we update the news every

day. We have now published more than

50,000 stories about Edinburgh (yes it was a

surprise to me too) and have a vast archive

of articles and photos for you to get lost in.

As well as including our stories on our social

media feeds, we are also one of 45

hyperlocal news websites which are featured

on Google News Showcase where our top

stories are published in the morning and the

evening. This is having a beneficial effect on

the number of visitors to our website and

followers on social media. If you are

organising an event or have a story for us

then please get in touch so that we can tell

our expanding audience.

“Just for ewe” on our front page this

month we feature a couple of the sheep

sculptures which are scattered around town

encouraging visitors to go to the Royal

Highland Show which takes place this

month. In what is probably the first full

summer of “returning to normal”, there are

now events of all kinds almost every

weekend. Some are on our What’s On pages,

but for a fuller list read online.

We have a new face on our Food page

where Kerry will write a monthly column

about new restaurants in the capital for you

to try, giving you her opinion about the best

food and service in town.

Charlie continues to drink coffee at as

many places in Edinburgh as he can. This

month he writes on page 16 about Two

Children, a new place where you can sit and

soak up the sun in Stockbridge.

On Page 23 we show you the result of

three years of renovation work at the

Victorian Warrender Baths which

Edinburgh Leisure has just reopened -

another fabulous example of our Victorian

heritage, but this one is still in use.

Phyllis Stephen, Editor

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Planning News

Plans have been submitted to erect a statue

in the grounds of the Chapel of St Albert the

Great just off George Square Lane. The figure

will depict Saint Dominic. The plans also

include some accessibility improvements

and landscaping.

Planning permission has been granted for a

new 204 bedroom Radisson RED which will be

built next to the airport. There will be a bar

and restaurant on the top floor as well as

meeting and events space, with a 1300 square

feet conference room. The hotel will open in

late 2025.

Plans have been approved to change the

shopfront on the corner of Princes Street and

Hanover Street, but with some revisions. The

existing marble cladding on the ground floor

will be replaced with granite, and the granite

cladding on the first floor will remain in place.

After plans to convert the former

Strathmore House care home into six flats was

refused earlier this year there are now new

(very similar) plans lodged by CM Architects.

There are proposals to renovate SRUC’s

Peter Wilson Building quadrangle at Kings

Buildings by Landscape architects OOBE. This

will include a new main entrance area,

multi-functional outdoor learning and social

spaces and café spill out.

A Proposal of Application Notice (PAN) was

submitted to the council in April and now a

public consultation event will be held on 19

June from 2pm to 7pm at Scottish Storytelling

Centre 43-45 High Street for a development at

New Waverley North. The Vita Group intends

constructing Purpose Built Student

Accommodation (PBSA) on a prominent and

currently disused city centre site. The student

flats would be part of a mixed development

also comprising “commercial and community

facilities open to the public”. The student flats,

Vita say, will provide “much needed

accommodation for students in Edinburgh

where there is a real shortage”.

Peter Wilson Building at King’s

Buildings

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JUNIOR DOCTORS Aria Pereti (6), Hana Bousmaha (4), Georgia

Madden (4), Leandro Pereti (3) and Ruby Handa (4) met doctors

from Zambia at the Royal College of Surgeons to launch No Room

to Operate, an appeal by Edinburgh based charity, Kids Operating

Room. The charity set up by Garreth Wood and his wife Nicola, has

reached a major milestone. It has provided capacity for 100,

operations for children in low and middle income countries. The

appeal aims to raise essential funding to reach another 100,

children in need of surgical help in the next three years.

Funding appeal for kids

Alan Simpson