Edinburgh Headlines 8 November: Edinburgh tram services disrupted after West End crash involving car and pedestrian

Edinburgh Headlines 8 November: Edinburgh tram services disrupted after West End crash involving car and pedestrian.

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00:00 Welcome back to EdinburghNews.com. I'm evening news reporter Kevin Quinn.

00:04 Here are our three top stories today, Wednesday November the 8th.

00:08 A controversial Edinburgh traffic scheme is simply transferring cars

00:14 onto previously quieter residential roads, critics complain. Residents in Kirstorfen claim the low

00:20 traffic neighbourhood measures in the area have done nothing to reduce overall traffic volumes

00:25 or encourage people to cycle rather than use their cars. Instead they say the scheme has

00:30 forced motorists to use a less safe junction to join the main road.

00:34 In other news today, the Association of Scotland's Self-Caterers has unveiled new figures showing

00:44 only a small number of professional self-catering businesses have seen their license applications

00:49 approved by the City of Edinburgh Council. A freedom of information request was submitted by

00:55 the trade organisation to ascertain the number of licenses granted, declined or pending approval,

01:00 as well as the total fees collected. The FOI shows just around a quarter of the estimated

01:06 short-term let properties in Edinburgh actually exist. Short-term lets have been used as a scapegoat

01:13 for wider housing challenges, but with just 1,181 self-catering businesses in Edinburgh

01:19 on non-domestic rates compared to 1,201 in 2010, there are over 240,000 dwellings in Edinburgh,

01:28 over 9,200 of which are empty homes. Also today, tram services were disrupted

01:38 after a crash involving a car and a pedestrian at Edinburgh's West End yesterday around lunchtime.

01:44 The crash happened at around 12.10pm at Athol Crescent. Edinburgh trams tweeted at 12.24pm that

01:50 services were only running between the airport and Haymarket Yards. That's you brought right up to

01:56 date for Edinburgh stories today. Keep an eye on our website edinburghnews.scotsman.com for all your

02:03 latest news from the capital.