Prof June Andrews

Dementia specialist. Advice on care for older people.

[Prof June Andrews @ProfJuneAndrews]

Erin? @edinhelp?

[Prof June Andrews @ProfJuneAndrews]

Just back from a lovely weekend in Prague. Lots of excited tourists on the tram from the airport wondering what they’ll see in #morningside 🤢🫣here in #edinburgh @smagsocials

[Prof June Andrews @ProfJuneAndrews]

Thank you. Is this an alternative to the official site?

[Edinburgh Council Help @edinhelp]

@ProfJuneAndrews Good Afternoon, Please send us a private message confirming the address to allow me to report this. Thanks Erin

[Prof June Andrews @ProfJuneAndrews]

Normal day outside my living room window🤢Stinking rubbish overflowing🫣The Bins could be at the other side of the road by the grass but @Edinburgh_CC hired somebody from London to use Google and stick it outside our windows @SmagSocials @edinburghpaper @BBCWomansHour

[SMAG @SmagSocials]

The new normal across the whole South Meadows area.

@Edinburgh_CC told residents that the problems they were advising would happen with the new bin-hubs "couldn't", "simply wouldn't be allowed to" occur.

Yet here we all are.

[Prof June Andrews @ProfJuneAndrews]

Just back from a lovely weekend in Prague. Lots of excited tourists on the tram from the airport wondering what they’ll see in #morningside 🤢🫣here in #edinburgh @smagsocials

[SMAG @SmagSocials]

SMAG has been informed that choosing bin hub locations was outsourced to a London co. that simply used a distance calculation and Google maps. No visits. No impact assessments.

Here's the Freedom of Information request submitted to @Edinburgh_CC to ascertain the facts:

[Prof June Andrews @ProfJuneAndrews]

@SmagSocials @Edinburgh_CC Urgh

[Prof June Andrews @ProfJuneAndrews]

Hi Zara. I have to report so often I’m beginning to wonder if I’ve got a part-time job with #edinburgh council. Bin monitor 🙄Bit tedious. If you’re employed by the council, maybe you could pass the information on when we send you the pictures? Every day? Thanks. June

[Edinburgh Council Help @edinhelp]

@SmagSocials @Edinburgh_CC Hello, you can report this via the following link - https://t.co/MZKCu4Jkqp Thanks, Zara.

[Bruntsfield Minx @BruntsfieldMinx]

The old postcards of Edinburgh used to be so niche!

Vintage Marchmont Road. If only the trams still went there.

[Prof June Andrews @ProfJuneAndrews]

Write to someone! A stamp might seem expensive, but a letter is cheaper than a coffee and can be kept forever ❤️

[Ms Marchmont 🏳️ @lucynorris1]

Post box by night on Strathearn Road. Use it or lose it.

[Prof June Andrews @ProfJuneAndrews]

Google maps…Powered by satellites, optimism and zero local knowledge. Good for finding places, but not understanding reality. “You’ve arrived!” 🙄

[SMAG @SmagSocials]

SMAG has been informed that choosing bin hub locations was outsourced to a London co. that simply used a distance calculation and Google maps. No visits. No impact assessments.

Here's the Freedom of Information request submitted to @Edinburgh_CC to ascertain the facts:

[SMAG @SmagSocials]

@ProfJuneAndrews @edinburghpaper @EdinburghCC The collection rules are clear.

Only from kerbside outside the property requesting uplift and from 7am on the specific day of collection.

Disabled/elderly etc. can advise CEC so it can be collected directly from the flat at no charge.

Using a hub is fly-tipping!

[Prof June Andrews @ProfJuneAndrews]

Gruesome. @edinburghpaper @BBCScotlandNews

[SMAG @SmagSocials]

We'll post more later, but this #Meadows hub? Seriously?

This is the image @Edinburgh_CC now wants to convey to the world? #Edinburgh #festivalcity

[Hannah Brown @HannahMargBrown]

John Swinney on Murrell guilty plea: "This is a tough day" he says, adding that all he can think about are the "decent people who have stood with me at coffee mornings and jumble sales and thrift shops raising the money and paying their money to party headquarters."

[SMAG @SmagSocials]

Surely there must be some way the police could assist to allow this to go ahead?

[Prof June Andrews @ProfJuneAndrews]

@SmagSocials Household waste. Under my windows. Note saying it’s not dumped. But that the council will pick up. That date has passed. Even more annoying than the usual fly tipping. Take your crap away, please. @edinburghpaper @EdinburghCC

[SMAG @SmagSocials]

@ProfJuneAndrews @BBCScotlandNews @STVEdinburgh @streetscape33 Residents were told this wouldn't happen because the Council had recognised South Meadows had a very large number of HMOs and it would have a dedicated fly-tipping vehicle attend the area every other day to deal with incidents.

That service was never delivered, @Edinburgh_CC.

[SMAG @SmagSocials]

@ProfJuneAndrews This is simply the 'broken windows' theory in action.

Because @Edinburgh_CC have allowed this situation to develop (after telling residents it couldn't, or wouldn't be allowed to, happen with the new hubs), it then attracts more anti-social behaviour.

[Prof June Andrews @ProfJuneAndrews]

Public toilet/bin hub combination. Yes that’s a lavatory pan now nestled between the bins. @LivingStreetsEd @streetscape33 @SmagSocials

[SMAG @SmagSocials]

Remember the single hub we highlighted the other day? Well, here it is again this afternoon... just after @Edinburgh_CC had collected the recycling in Marchmont.

It's not just continuous fly tipping, it's the shocking service delivery affecting the whole South Meadows area: