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Saturday column: Policy positions and planning applications

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Sep 20, 2025
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THERE’S a sign welcoming drivers coming off the A8, at Gogar roundabout, declaring that Edinburgh is a ‘Fairtrade City’.

‘Fairtrade’ is one of several policy positions that, over the years, councillors have endorsed - all noble in intent, but often conspicuous by their absence in the documentation accompanying planning applications or during debates at c…

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