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Dividends from Lothian Buses totalling £18 million due to help finance Edinburgh's tram extension won't materialise, councillors have been told.

Over the summer, City of Edinburgh Council put the empty Category A-listed Royal High School on the market after scrapping a 2010 agreement with

The Royal High School Preservation Trust has secured funding for a new home for St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh.

It lies a stone’s throw from Edinburgh’s city centre and alongside a city housing estate dogged by its unfortunate links to Trainspotting.

City of Edinburgh Council has released an app to support the maintenance of housing properties under co-ownership. Named Novoville Shared Repairs, it has been developed with public services software company Novoville and is being made available to local authorities throughout Scotland. It enables users to created a ‘virtual tenement’ and report a repair or maintenance issue to fellow proprietors. They can then use it to hire contractors who are members of Edinburgh’s Trusted Trader scheme...

Last modified on Sat 6 Feb 2021 17.07 EST When renowned Scottish architect Thomas Hamilton set about designing a home for Edinburgh’s Royal High School in the early 1800s, he cemented the city’s reputation as an “Athens of the North” with a Greek revival building still considered one of Europe’s finest. But despite being widely lauded and variously floated as a home for the Scottish parliament, a national photography centre and a military history museum, the building ha...

Edinburghs old Royal High School building risks the same fate as A-listed St Peters Seminary – John McLellan Nestling in the Argyllshire countryside near Cardross is one of Scotland’s architectural gems, the country’s best post-war building, according to Prospect architectural magazine, while Historic Environment Scotland describes it as “one of the finest modern buildings”. Saturday, 23rd January 2021, 7:00 am The former Royal High School on Calton Hill has been lying largely empty ...