Salento Closing Down Sale
Sadly Lynne at Salento on Dundas Street is closing her lovely shop for personal reasons – but there is one last chance on Wednesday to bag some Italian sunshine.
Lynne is well known for her beautiful Puglian ceramics and linens – with more recent additions of pasta and chocolate… and this shop will be a huge loss to the New Town. The building is now up for lease and the business will close down – but not before one last fling beginning this Wednesday when there will be a closing down sale.
Get along. Help Lynne out and buy some gorgeous gifts for yourself and your friends.
And read more about how the Puglian dream in Edinburgh began only a short time ago here.
This week at the council
10 June 2024 | MONDAY |
| 11 June 2024 | TUESDAY |
| 10.00 am | Education, Children and Families Committee – Dean of Guild Court Room – City Chambers |
| 2.00 pm | Edinburgh Partnership – Business Centre, City Chambers, High Street |
| 12 June 2024 | WEDNESDAY |
| 10.00 am | Development Management Sub-Committee – Dean of Guild Court Room – City Chambers |
| 13 June 2024 | THURSDAY |
| 14 June 2024 | FRIDAY |
There will be a 45 minute presentation at the meeting of the Edinburgh Partnership on Tuesday to explain the up to date position on the housing emergency.
On Wednesday at the Development Management Sub-Committee which is a planning meeting – councillors will decide upon the application for the new 8,500 seater Edinburgh Arena which the owners of the O2 in London, AEG, propose at Edinburgh Park. This is recommended for approval but councillors will deliberate the proposal for about two hours or so according to the published timetable.
Councillors are recommended to refuse conversion of an office in Wemyss Place into short term lets as it would have “an unacceptable impact to neighbouring amenity”.
And there are plans online for the new Edinburgh International Book Festival venue at the Edinburgh Futures Institute in the former Royal Infirmary building on Lauriston Place which is recommended to be granted.
There is also an application for the empty 7.1 hectare site at Meadowbank Stadium which is recommended for approval despite 56 objections received. This area of land was zoned Open Space in the 2016 Local Development Plan but planning approvals in 2018 and 2023 have superseded that. The plan is to build 705 houses on the land – most with no car parking spaces attached. Around a third of the houses will be affordable.
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Edinburgh World Heritage event
Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment – a book launch. The new ideas and values that emerged from Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth century were shaped by the moral dilemmas of the day. As such, the story of the Scottish Enlightenment is intertwined with that of slavery and the slave trade.
John D. O. Fulton in his new book explores this nuanced and conflicting relationship via the compelling life stories of an extraordinary cast of characters—from Jamaican plantation owners to America’s original private eye, Glaswegian merchants to London revolutionaries, escaped American slaves to indomitable female crusaders fighting for America’s soul. They lived in a period of seismic historical events, legal reforms and moral shifts, with slavery at the centre. From a Scottish perspective, Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment gives a rich, diverse and dramatic account of this momentous period, while examining its relevance to our society today.
Join us in the splendid setting of the Signet Library for an evening with the author, John D. O. Fulton who will talk about his research after giving a presentation. Robert Pirrie WS, Chief Executive of the WS Society will host the event and welcome guests to the historic Signet Library. (only accessible by stairs as this event is on the upper level).
- Tickets In person only (includes drinks reception): £12
- Date: Thursday 13 June 2024
- Open from 5.30pm
- Start time of event 6.00pm
- Drinks reception from 7.00pm
- Venue: The Signet Library, Parliament Square, Edinburgh EH1 1RF
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