DEVELOPMENTS ON MULTIPLE LEVELS, ADVERTORIAL, AND DISCREETLY TUCKED AWAY
You know that virtuous glow you exude after pumping iron in your baffies for a couple of hours?
Powerhouse Fitness (‘Europe’s No. 1 for Home Fitness’) hopes for some of the same (minus the foost) by installing new signage outside its premises at 14 Antigua Street (Ref. 17/02265/ADV).
The proposed two fascia advertisements would contain internal red LED lighting to create a ‘halo effect’ round the letters.
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The proposed five 1-bedroom flats would be at ground-floor, first, second and attic levels.
The former townhouse (3,523 sq.ft), dating from the early 1790s, has most recently been used as offices. It was sold in February this year for £600,000.
May suit those who like klongs.
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It’s not exactly in Spurtleshire, but some readers will be heaving a sigh of relief nonetheless.
Councillors on the Development Management Subcommittee have refused planning permission for demolition of a warehouse and construction in its place of 54 self-contained studio flats managed for students at 254 Leith Walk (Ref. 17/00619/FUL).
The plot is discreetly tucked away, with access via a close between The Best Kebab Shop and Crawford’s Furniture Salerooms.
At the time of writing, the DMS’s reasons for the decision were not available online, and neither were copies of the 30 letters of objection.
Kenneth Reid Architects’ previous application to build 58 flats on this site, which attracted 36 letters of objection, was withdrawn in January (Ref. 16/05476/FUL). Those against that proposal frequently cited overprovision of student accommodation in Leith.
[Image top-right: BobParis, Creative Commons.]
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