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Edinburgh Live
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Donald Turvill

Derelict Edinburgh garages to be demolished for two family homes

Plans to knock down a row of derelict garages in Portobello to make way for two family homes have been given the go ahead.

Edinburgh city councillors granted planning permission despite 40 local objections, after they visited the small site off East Brighton Crescent.

However the proposals were not backed by all members of the planning sub-committee this week with one saying he feared it would 'cram too much into a very limited space.'

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