City Of Edinburgh Council Continue Their War On Paint.

[douglas9401]

While the capital crumbles about their ears the council WILL be obeyed! Knobs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-63515857

[Zacs-Master]

How do you know they had ‘advisers’, atheist?

[jno]

I live in a conservation area and I'd expect a similar order if I painted my house blue.

On the other hand, the man next door seems to have got away with putting a conservatory on his roof without permission, so I don't know.

[Atheist]

Zacs. They have renovated and 'improved' a Listed Building.
"When we got the lease for this building in March 2020 it was so derelict the ceiling was down, the floors were up and the toilets smashed."
I'd expect any sensible outfit to get professional advice on how to treat a Listed Building. If they couldn't afford it, they could ask the Planning Authority for advice.

[davebro]

//It’s a business, not a home, Dave. //

Sorry - I was referring to the other lady who was ordered to repaint the door of her private home (in the same area I believe).

[Zacs-Master]

March 2020 is a far while ago. It’s even trading with the front painted grey for some time. The fact that they went ahead and painted it in those god-awful colours in a heritage/conservation area suggests they’re not that ‘sensible’.

[youngmafbog]

Actually it seems reasonable to me, heritage sites and listed buildings do need to be protected. If you dont like it open up somewhere else.

And besides this is not that bad, now Poundbury.....

[Gromit]

All a bit daft.
They only painted their buildings in drab colours 200 years because that was all they could produce. If they could have, some would undoubtedly have painted them in bright vibrant colours.
So the council will make you paint your door burnt sienna, but you can put a two ton box of metal in front of it in green, pink or yellow, and that is fine.

[Atheist]

Yes, Gromit. Cars and vans and even camper vans don't fall within planning legislation if they are parked on the public highway.

[wolf63]

A shop down the road from me had the same problems a few years back. The shop looked great but the council didn't want pink shops cheering up the town. The shop eventually closed but not directly due to the idiotic council.

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-courier-advertiser-perth-and-perthshire-edition/20150602/282510067172449

[Zacs-Master]

‘ They only painted their buildings in drab colours 200 years because that was all they could produce’

I’m afraid you’re wrong on that point too, Grom. The Georgians loved, and used, bright colours. Have a Google.

[Peter Pedant]

Georgians loved bright colours but....
they were fugitive and went drab

Gainsbrough was keen on the new colours which faded ( fugitive ) over 50 so now.... you tell a Gainsborough by the brush stroke ( they all look as tho they have really BBAAAAAD tuberculosis)

I went to a lecture on History of Dying
and found not - funeral practices,
but Dyeing
Perkins was the first to do a stable chemical dye - and that is why so many victorian fabrics 1870 - are purple.
Big search for a stable red

[Peter Pedant]

I’m afraid you’re wrong on that point too, Grom.
well he has support
that is exactly what we were told at the American Museum at Bath in er 1963. - they had pained the rooms in pale shades....

History as you know is re-written ( re-cast perhpas) for every generation

[Gromit]

Zacs/PP

So the council’s colour fascism isn’t even based on fact.
They used vibrant colours 200 years ago, but the drab council ban them now.

[Gromit]

When I moved into my house the front door was a very drab brown colour. So I painted it dark green. People commented on how nice it was. One year, on a whim, I did it post box red. That was universally loathed, people hated it, and I had to revert to the green.

[Hopkirk]

There should be a law against green cars.

(Except classics in British Racing Green)

[jno]

the Georgians were okay with colour, but mostly inside. They wouldn't have built brick houses then painted them blue or pink like the ones in the photos. You couldn't get the paint till Victorian times. They painted bright front doors but that was about it.

[Peter Pedant]

Latest:
Chromorama - Riccardo Falcinelli
out this week ( £22) - - how colour changed out way of seeing

seems to fit the bill