Storm Kathleen
There was some storm damage in the city over the weekend, particularly on Saturday when a mature tree in the private gardens on Queen Street fell down.
Read more and see all the photos here.
Holyrood Art Club Exhibition 2024
The Annual Exhibition moves to a new venue for 2024 at the Edinburgh Photographic Society at 68 Great King Street. Members have produced up to two hundred paintings in different mediums, and you can expect a varied subject matter. Entry is free.
Open daily 10.00am to 5.45pm including Sunday. Closes 4.30pm on the final day, Saturday 20 April.
Investment in play parks in the city
There are plans to improve the playground in Dumbiedykes and the council (through Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace Trust) is currently running a consultation until 1 May to find out what local people would like the park to look like. You can find that here.
The Scottish Government began a five-year funding round in 2021 to improve access to premium play parks for children. This long term funding makes it possible for more renewal and refurbishment of parks in the city. Some, such as Montgomery Street Park have already been refurbished and other plans such as a skatepark in Burdiehouse Valley Park are yet to be done.
Funding of £122,000 has been awarded to the playground in Dumbiedykes, where designs have to be finalised. Play areas at Leith Links and Taylor Gardens have been added to the council’s investment programme along with Keddie Gardens and Tolbooth Wynd as part of the wider
Edinburgh Nature Network – Linking Leith parks projects. In addition a contract has been awarded for work to be carried out in the park at Princes Street Gardens where work was due to begin a short time ago to make the park ready for the summer holidays.
A total of £4.9m from The Scottish Government will be spent in Edinburgh on 189 areas which among them have more than 900 pieces of play equipment, and other monies can be sourced from Section 75 agreements which run alongside planning permission and become the liability of developers of particular areas.
New Town & Broughton Community Council meeting
The busy community council meets tonight.
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