WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT
Together for Edinburgh is the team behind the ‘regeneration’ of Edinburgh’s East End.*
In a recent circular to Broughton addresses, they describe themselves as ‘looking at making improvements to Picardy Place and enhancing the eastern gateway to the city’.
TIME TO RESIST GIGANTIC GYRATORY
Plans for the future road layout of Picardy Place are at long last emerging into the light.
Unfortunately, what we now see is something very like the gigantic gyratory so many people have dreaded for so long.
The plans have been drawn up by consultants working for the developers, and although the Council has been involved there’s been no conversation with the public until last month.
When TH Real Estate's Director of Development Martin Perry spoke about Picardy Place recently, there was very little detail (Breaking news, 24.5.17).
Plans, he told Leith Central Community Council, for an important bus / tram interchange here are still in development. And that was that.
Spurtle has done a little digging, and the last substantive document we can find outlining City of Edinburgh Council's thoughts on the subject date from July 2009. The document is attached below.
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT BRIEFS LOCALS
Martin Perry, Director of Development at TH Real Estate (THRE), spoke about the St James Quarter (SJQ) project after Monday night’s Annual General Meeting of the Leith Central Community Council (LCCC).
Owing to the number and urgency of questions from the floor, he was unable to complete his presentation.
However, he had many noteworthy points, most of which we summarise below in roughly the order he made them.