City of Edinburgh Council’s Finance and Resources Committee’s response to Edinburgh Central Library vs Virgin Hotel petition, 1 February 2019. Following on from 11 December 2018’s presentation of the Let There Be Light campaign’s petition to the Education, Families and Children Committee the petition’s second request was for: Read more
By March 2017 this group also constituted as SAVE Edinburgh Central Library, a flat-level voluntary group set up initially to fundraise for a court case seeking to overturn a consented planning application, India Buildings 15/04445/FUL, see https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-edinburgh-central-library Read more
This timeline of everything features key moments in Central Library, Edinburgh’s history, from its inception to its current parlous state precipitated by City of Edinburgh Council’s consented India Buildings hotel development and its new-build high-rise block located on Cowgate common good land, just 5m from the library’s west elevation of windows designed for daylighting all three floors of public rooms within the building. Read more