Whiter shade of pink ends Edinburgh’s long-running door dispute

Georgian properties in Edinburgh’s New Town are governed by strict conservation rules. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

First it was an unacceptable pink, and then an unacceptable green. Now the owner of Edinburgh’s most famous front door has won, with a colour which can perhaps charitably be called off-white.

After nearly 10 months of dispute over conservation standards in the city’s New Town, council officials have declared defeat in their standoff with Miranda Dickson of Drummond Place.