There are new signs that life may at last be breathed into Units 1 and 2 at 120 Dundas Street.
KLR and RCR International Ltd gained consent to combine the properties into a ‘continental-themed café and retail’ super-deli in May last year (Ref. 14/02839/FUL).
Now they are applying again, this time with variations to the above consent concerning an external flue at the back and internal cooker arrangements (Ref. 15/05675/FUL).
Partly on the basis that the flue will not be big enough to allow full restaurant use, some 17 neighbours have written in to support the variation.
We first reported the proposals two years ago (see Breaking news, 22.7.14) and remain enthused by their promise of ‘very high-end quality food and wine’. The legions of hungry and salaried RBS staff may soon be no more than a fond memory hereabouts, but this plan looks like a major vote of confidence in the area’s future.
KLR and RCR International's name appears to stem from directors Kyle Lewis Reid and Ronald Chisholm Reid.
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Whitbread seek permission for an external lighting scheme at the forthcoming Premier Inn Hotel at 44 York Place (formerly HM Revenue & Customs).
Spurtle found the associated application form (Ref. 15/05481/FUL), Report and documentation full of detail and singularly unhelpful.
We can see that the lights will be attached to the south and west-facing elevations of the hotel, as one would expect. But we’re still in the dark about what colour and intensity of illumination are envisaged.
In short, the one thing we'd like to know about a lighting scheme is what it what it would look like in operation. So far, we don't have a clue.
The Premier Inn website is vague about when the hotel will open ('soon'). But it boasts of multilingual staff, an in-house restaurant (called Thyme), and 'new-generation bedrooms each featuring an impressive 40" flat screen TV, bright, modern bathroom with a large shower head, and slumber-inducing, king-size Hypnos bed'. Prices start at £35 per night.
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Permission to convert an A-listed 3-storey office building at 12 Gayfield Square to form two new flats on the ground and first floors (Ref 10/03645/LBC) was originally granted in February 2011.
It now reappears in the Council’s planning schedules as having been fast-tracked on 5 January 2016.
This makes little sense, unless perhaps what has been consented is a renewal of planning consent before the original consent’s expiry after five years.