Planning

Planning permission is sought to convert two Category A-listed properties on London Street into short-term holiday-let accommodation.

Following 5 previous consultation rounds, and before submitting a full planning application for the Powderhall Bowling Greens site later this month, those behind the proposals this morning presented final plans to the public and answered questions.

Representatives of Collective Architecture, City of Edinburgh Council, and Urban Pioneers (landscape architects) discussed proposals on Zoom with around 16 interested parties, most of whom live or work locally.

No great surprises

Professor Cliff Hague, Chairman of the Cockburn Association, delivered the heritage watchdog’s annual lecture last night on Zoom.

His theme was the Frankenstein’s monster that is festivalisation – in particular, Edinburgh’s monstrous creation that has grown too big for the laboratory and now threatens to ruin the very apparatus that gave it birth.

Well, that was this viewer’s expectation. Instead, what emerged was a calm, forensic account of how the Festivals and Fringe emerged in the city and grew to their current proportions.

Attached below is the extensive response by New Town & Broughton Community Council to Ediston's planning application for the former RBS site between Dundas Street and King George V Park.

As first reported back in September, MMMARS Dundas Limited aims to demolish the existing structure and erect a new mixed-use development (residential, office, retail, and café/restaurant) at 108–14  and 116 Dundas Street (20/03923/PAN).

ONLINE EXERCISE STARTS TOMORROW WITH LIVE EVENT

Drum Property Group and CAMVO123 Ltd will seek public feedback on new proposals for the 2.9-acre site at Stead’s Place as part of their proposal of application notice for a major development.

MUSIC SCHOOL IS A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE

Scottish Ministers have dismissed the planning appeals by Duddingston House Properties and Urbanist Hotels against City of Edinburgh Council’s denial of planning permission for proposals to turn the old Royal High School into a luxury hotel (PPA-230-2213).

SHORT SHRIFT FOR THIN-END-OF-THE-WEDGE HOUSE PROPOSAL

Verticus Ltd seeks planning permission to demolish a single-storey garage at 17 Spey Street Lane and build in its place a 2-storey three-bedroom house (20/04132/FUL; 20/04133/CON).

EYRE PLACE RESIDENTS CONCERNED FOR PRIVACY

Some residents on the south side of Eyre Place are concerned that their bedrooms at the back will be overlooked from adjacent flats forming part of the proposed New Town Quarter between Dundas Street and King George V Park.

BIG PLANS FOR CENTRUM AND BUPA HOUSES

Scott Hobbs Planning, on behalf of MMMARS Dundas Limited has submitted a proposal of application notice to the Council for property at 108–14 and 116 Dundas Street (20/03923/PAN).