Planning

CSG Projects Ltd wants to build a Richard Murphy-designed 5-bdrm home on land it owns between the office at 12 Blenheim Pl and Greenside Parish Church (24/01889/FUL).

Leith Central Community Council opposes plans to convert the  bingo hall at 26 Manderston Street into purpose-built student accommodation (24/01162/FUL).

Gone now, but I can still smell the place's signature scent of beer, bleach and stale cigarette smoke.

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KEY FEATURES AND FIRST THOUGHTS

Edinburgh Council has submitted plans for Phase 1 of a mixed housing development on the site of the former Powderhall Waste Transfer Station at 165 Broughton Rd (24/01596/FUL).

Below we summarise some of the principal features of what, at first glance, appears to be an attractive and well-conceived addition to Edinburgh’s housing stock.

A community engagement event to discuss latest plans for the Broughton Road/McDonald Rd/St Mark’s Path junction will take place on Wednesday 24 January (3.30–7.00pm) in the Link building classrooms at Broughton Primary School.

The junction requires attention because of its proximity to the school and the imminent arrival of new housing on the sites of the former bowling greens and Powderhall Waste Transfer Station.

Consultants Stantec aim to encourage and prioritise active travel and make it safer.

Bitter-sweet farewell

S1 Developments Ltd wants to change the use of the hotel at 14–15 Claremont Crescent and reconfigure it as seven 2-bdrm flats with two separate 3-bdrm mews dwellings and limited on-site parking for cars and bikes behind (23//070507/LBC and 23/07058/FUL).

Frustration about Picardy Place congestion and the charmless new ‘Fantasy Island’ at its centre ignited on social media over the weekend.

Over 50k X users viewed Spurtle’s brief attempt at positive thinking and later observation that sitters in the space are obliged to face outwards towards the traffic rather than inwards towards some unimaginative planting.

After yesterday's article, we thought we should mention that a notable feature of the new Picardy Place is that sitters are encouraged to face outwards, in quiet contemplation of the traffic.

Perhaps this says all we need to know about the interests and priorities of Fantasy Island's designers.

In October 2023, Edinburgh Council’s Development Management Sub-Committee consented Assembly Festival Ltd’s installation of a Spiegeltent for use as a performance space in St Andrew Square Gardens (23/04199/FUL).

Santa’s Stories was to operate as part of Edinburgh's Christmas 2023.

It would: be erected from 6 November; run from 18 November to 6 January 2024; be gone by 14 January 2024.

Councillors on the Development Management Sub-Committee today unanimously rejected officials