http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Council ‘fuelling violent disorder’ " en Fri, 22 May 2026 09:21:22 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12750#post-153601 Thu, 15 May 2014 09:15:42 +0000 PS 153601@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>On the subject of Lothian Road boozeries, it seems to have all gone quiet on the Picturehouse/Wetherspoons front. No sign of a planning application for change of use yet as far as I can tell.</p> <p>Anyone heard anything? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12750#post-153498 Wed, 14 May 2014 13:58:38 +0000 chdot 153498@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sorry, couldn't resist -</p> <p><img src="http://m.scotsman.com/webimage/1.2300186.1337249182!/image/544550149.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_393/544550149.jpg"></p> <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/eric-s-got-the-bottle-to-use-drunk-tanks-for-revellers-1-2300188" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotsman.com/news/eric-s-got-the-bottle-to-use-drunk-tanks-for-revellers-1-2300188</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12750#post-153497 Wed, 14 May 2014 13:44:08 +0000 chdot 153497@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>A ROW between the police and Edinburgh City Council over the growing number of pubs and off-sales flooding the Capital has intensified – after the licensing chief rejected links between the spread of alcohol sales and public disorder.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/licencing-chief-denies-disorder-linked-with-alcohol-1-3410453" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/licencing-chief-denies-disorder-linked-with-alcohol-1-3410453</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12750#post-152040 Tue, 06 May 2014 08:57:29 +0000 kaputnik 152040@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"A Co-op Food Store is located in Leven Street along with a Scottish Co-op in Lothian Road"</p> <p>Actually, they're both Scotmids and there's no such thing as "Scottish Co-op". Of course you couldn't expect Edinburgh's "local paper" to have that sort of inside scoop about a supermarket that has been there since St. Cuthbert's days at least. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12750#post-151996 Mon, 05 May 2014 17:35:58 +0000 14Westfield 151996@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well I can't say I'm convinced by the police and NHS view of quantity vs quality on licensing in tollcross - its stated that the area is a problem or concern area for booze and the 'night time economy' but who believes that police callouts would not be vastly reduced by closing the cavendish nightclub?<br /> I used to regularly pass it on the way home of an evening and there was usually a police van herding the clientele.. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12750#post-151990 Mon, 05 May 2014 16:54:34 +0000 Focus 151990@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Incredibly, even <em>that</em> article attracts and anti-cyclist comment!: </p> <p>"<em>"The police were.......blatantly ignored"!<br /> Interesting to see that both the police and the NHS are now discovering that the only people Councillors listen to these days are the two-wheeled lycra-clad loonies!</em>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12750#post-151939 Mon, 05 May 2014 13:17:30 +0000 chdot 151939@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>POLICE and health chiefs have joined forces to blast a council decision to green light two new off-sales in the same street – amid fears it will fuel violence and antisocial behaviour.</p> <p>Supermarket giants Sainsbury’s and Co-op applied to sell booze from stores due to open in Earl Grey Street, Tollcross.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/council-fuelling-violent-disorder-1-3398973" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/council-fuelling-violent-disorder-1-3398973</a> </p>