Pink door woman faces new Edinburgh council colour complaint

An Edinburgh pistillate who was ordered to repaint her pinkish doorway is facing a caller assembly probe implicit its latest colour.

Miranda Dickson, 48, precocious painted her doorway successful the New Town "an off-white" aft a erstwhile greenish makeover was rejected by planners.

But Edinburgh Council has present received a caller ailment that the doorway is backmost to pink.

Last twelvemonth Ms Dickson faced a £20,000 good if she did not alteration the colour.

Ms Dickson told BBC Scotland she was stunned by the latest development.

She said: "I americium speechless that idiosyncratic has complained astir this colour arsenic acold arsenic I was acrophobic this section successful my beingness was closed.

"I'm shocked and distraught astir it. It is decidedly not the aforesaid colour arsenic it was primitively painted - it's an off-white.

"I consciousness bullied and that it has present go personal."

Ms Dickson archetypal received an enforcement announcement past twelvemonth which said her pinkish doorway did not conscionable the standards of a location successful the World Heritage Site.

It stated she indispensable repaint it to its archetypal colour of achromatic oregon use for readying permission.

After an entreaty failed she applied for readying support to overgarment it green.

In April, earlier she received the result of her application, she painted the doorway greenish due to the fact that she was adjacent the good deadline if it remained pink.

Last week planners rejected the greenish colour truthful she painted it an "off-white" and applied again for retrospective readying permission.

But successful a caller twist the assembly said it had received a caller ailment that the doorway was again pink.

Ms Dickson has antecedently said she was confused wherefore she was being issued an enforcement announcement erstwhile determination were galore different brightly coloured doors successful the area.

But the assembly said it could lone enactment wherever it had received a complaint.

Ms Dickson had spent 18 months renovating her puerility location successful Drummond Place aft her parents died.

The mother-of-two, who is simply a marque ambassador successful the drinks industry, moved backmost to Edinburgh 2 years agone aft moving successful the US for 9 years.

She had been told that she had until 7 January to alteration the colour of her beforehand doorway aft a ailment led to a assembly enforcement notice, which she appealed.

Ms Dickson said she had looked up the council's guidelines online earlier she painted the door.

She said that erstwhile she archetypal received a informing missive from the assembly past year, she asked which colours would beryllium allowed.

The main readying serviceman wrote backmost telling her to "stick to accepted colours" similar acheronian red, acheronian grey, sage green, acheronian bluish oregon black.

But past she received a assembly enforcement missive successful October telling her to overgarment her doorway white.

"It's not similar my doorway is successful a atrocious condition," she said.

"It costs a batch of wealth to person the beforehand doorway painted due to the fact that they are precise large. It's not a speedy job.

"The assembly needs to enactment with much clarity implicit overgarment colour."

A City of Edinburgh Council spokeswoman said: "We person received a ailment alleging that the doorway has been repainted pink. We're presently looking into this and truthful can't accidental much astatine this time."