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Free walking tour of historic Leith available for download

Lothian Buses have produced a free audio guide to Leith, aimed at highlighting the long and varied history of the neighbourhood to tourists.  ...

Portobello and Leith Community Wind Turbine hits stumbling block in land negotiations

Portobello and Leith locals show their support for a community owned turbine at Seafield Regular Greener Leith readers will know that we have been ...

Trying to get Conservation Area Status for Pilrig

Annette O'Carroll is a member of the Leith Central Community Council planning sub-committee. The group has put a huge amount of volunteer work into...

Early plans for 113 new homes on West Bowling Green Street

View Larger Map Councillors are due to consider a "proposal of application notice," for a big development proposal by building firm Smarts next wee...

Public meeting - AGM and Wind Turbine questions

News that we have successfully raised funds for the pre-application phase of the Leith & Portobello Community Wind Turbine has attracted a bit ...

EU scuppers big biomass subsidy whilst Forth Energy ramp up PR

Forth Energy, the developer behind a huge proposed power plant on Leith docks, have embarked on a new round of promotion for the four power station...

Malcolm Chisholm calls on Holyrood to toughen big biomass policies

Malcolm Chisholm with No Leith Biomass campaigners at the Foot of the Walk Today in the Scottish Parliament there was a debate on the "Low Carbon E...

Forth Energy kick Leith Biomass plant into the long grass

An artists impression of the biomass plant, made using Google Earth. This view looks down Constitution Street from a tall building.If you take a lo...

Elm Row resident urges objections against Gateway Theatre demolition plan

Recently we wrote a blog post alerting local residents to a revised planning application for the Gateway Theatre site that lies behind Elm Row and ...

Tories team up with trots to trounce libdem tram plan

In the latest twist to the ongoing Edinburgh tram saga, the Conservative group at the council have teamed up with Labour to back their proposal to ...

New plans for Gateway Theatre: 155 Student Flats

A revised planning application for the Gateway Theatre building site, which sits behind Elm Row and Montgomery Street has been submitted this week....

Early plans for hundreds more affordable homes in Bonnington

A pre-application notice has been approved by the council that could see significant change to an area of land in the Bonnington area. Whilst detai...

Planning protection for Leith colonies on the horizon

Colony dwellers in Leith will be interested to learn that it looks likely that their homes are likley received greater protection from the city pla...

Slightly more affordable homes bound for Lochend

126 new homes will be built in at the Lochend Butterfly development by 2013 after the council signed contracts with developer, Places for People, t...

Leith Biomass: More carbon emissions than coal for 270 years?

The developers proposing to build a giant biomass fueled power station on Leith docks will probably not enjoy this graph.  It is taken from a ...

How many times must Leithers pay for failed regeneration projects?

 Once upon a time a waterfront promenade would have run over here. In early May, Ray Perman, posted an excellent blog post calling for a new v...

Bonnington Bridge Bar builders dumping in Water of Leith again

In August last year, the owners of the Bonnington Bridge Bar got in trouble with the law after getting caught on camera dumping their waste in the ...

Council consults on future housing strategy

The City of Edinburgh Council are developing a new Housing Strategy and are seeking views from local residents and organisations to help them devel...

The fastest way to find out about new planning applications in Edinburgh

If you've been to our website recently you'll have noticed a new tab on the top menu for "The Planning Map." As it's name suggests, we've set-up a ...

Back our Energyshare bid to boost community power

 A unique partnership between two Edinburgh community groups has been established to develop a community owned wind turbine on the coast betwe...

What makes a place? Newhaven Habour memorial benches

Tourists who arrive in Scotland, are sometimes surprised by our fondness for memorial benches. These photos of the plaques on the memorial benches ...

Government agencies line up to criticise Leith Biomass plans

It is no secret that Forth Energy have few friends when it comes to their giant power plant proposals for Leith. However, now that the election is ...

Forth Ports apply to demolish listed grain silo

Forth Ports have submitted a planning application to demolish the Grade B listed grain silo on Leith Docks. They need to do this, in order to clear...

Leith biomass update: Easter greenwash special.

You could be forgiven for thinking that, with the main period of public consultation over, the objections in (even if you still can't actually read...

Leith biomass plans draw international condemnation

A coalition of five major environmental groups from the United States have written an open letter to the Scottish Government opposing plans by Fort...

Waterfront Framework Consultation Response

Greener Leith just managed to complete our consultation response to the City of Edinburgh Council Draft Area Development Framework Consultation. Yo...

Funding package confirmed for Shore

It's been a long time coming, but after a vote at Thursdays Leith Neighbourhood Partnership Housing and Built Environment Sub-group Committee, fund...

Last day for Leith Power Plant objections.

Find more photos like this on The Greener Leith Social Today is the last day for members of the public to object to the Forth Energy Leith Biomass ...

Objection, Objection, Objection

Greener Leith has finally just sent a 14,000 word objection to the proposed power plant on Leith docks. Supported by more than 64 external referenc...

Leith Biomass protest at Holyrood

  Photo credit: @Yonmei via TwitpicLeithers took the Leith Biomass protest to Holyrood today. The aim of the protest was to encourage more MSP...

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