The City of Edinburgh Council

In the Edinburgh School Uniform Bank (ESUB) offices there are benches covered in boxes of hundreds of white shirts, black leggings and trousers, the...

The matter of The Scottish Government’s sudden proposal to freeze council tax announced recently by the First Minister at the SNP party conference was...

This is the most up to date list of roadworks and events leading to road closures in Edinburgh for the next week or so....

Edinburgh has been ranked the best council in Scotland on climate action, according to research by Climate Action UK. The City of Edinburgh Council...

An advertising company which installed a “horrendously bright” advertising screen at Picardy Place has apologised for emitting “unacceptable levels of brightness” and said this was caused...

There is considerable anger in response to the announcement by the First Minister, Humza Yousaf that council tax next year will be frozen. The Edinburgh...

The City of Edinburgh Council has said it will take legal action against descendants of Henry Dundas if they do not return a stolen...

Plans to site a 5G mast in the Grange have been refused after more than 300 local people objected. Council planners ruled the 15-metre high...

The City of Edinburgh Council has backed a call to explore banning Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) from parts of the city amid concern they...

This is the most up to date list of roadworks and events leading to road closures in Edinburgh for the next week or so....

Edinburgh schoolchildren are “too scared to go to the toilet” due to a growing number of kids vaping in bathrooms, a council meeting has...

When guests arrive at the luxury W Edinburgh Hotel in St James Quarter next month there will be little in the way of a...

Picardy Place is the focus of a couple of bloopers this week in relation to matters which are under the control of the council....

The bus gate camera on Manse Road which is an integral part of the Corstorphine Connections scheme to reduce through traffic in the area...

A former Edinburgh councillor has been criticised by a standards watchdog for being “entirely inappropriate and disrespectful” during a meeting with junior lawyers –...

Plans to allow taxis and coaches access to a busy Edinburgh city centre pedestrian area so that a new five-star hotel can “show off”...

After a day long hearing before the Standards Commission for Scotland, former councillor John McLellan has been - on the one hand - found...

Controlled parking is coming to Gorgie. I’m writing less than two weeks before the 23 October ‘live date’ for Controlled Parking Zone S6(E), which runs...

Police have warned Edinburgh Council against re-opening much-needed public toilets near the city centre over fears they would attract criminality and anti-social behaviour. Toilets at...

An Edinburgh cabbie living in one of the city’s most expensive postcodes has been refused permission to use his garage as a short-term let...

Abandoned World War One premises in South Queensferry which have stunning views of the bridges, will be converted into nearly 50 new affordable homes. Work will...

People in Edinburgh are invited to contribute their views on the creation of a new outdoor city skatepark as plans to transform a derelict bowling...

An Edinburgh couple’s controversial plan to turn a former bowling club into a family home has been given the go-ahead after a planning row...

Edinburgh Council has set out how it plans to enforce the new licensing rules in respect of short-term lets. But the council has admitted...

The City of Edinburgh Council has agreed to ban the use of glyphosate based weedkillers in the city’s parks in what is regarded as...

In the first full year since my election in 2022, the number of people who lost their lives from an overdose in Edinburgh rose...

A sense of “dread and fear” is being felt in Edinburgh as the city faces cuts in vital health and social care services – which bosses warn...

This is the most up to date list of roadworks and events leading to road closures in Edinburgh for the next week or so....

A large neon pink sign erected in Edinburgh city centre to attract food market customers will have to be ripped out and taken away...

Work is set to begin to demolish an Edinburgh high school to make way for an energy-saving ‘superblock’ with allotments, an orchard and outdoor gym. In a...