Planning

E.C.F. Omni S.A.R.L., owners of the OMNi Centre, have applied to install 3 temporary food kiosks and a temporary coffee cart outside the south-west end of the building, facing Picardy Place (25/06189/FUL). 

Dennis O’Keeffe is an independent construction and infrastructure advisor acting for Broughton Rd coffee-kiosk proprietor Yossi Mazon over the ‘sudden and unconsulted closure’ of St Mark’s Path (see our report here).

In an email dated yesterday and shared with the Spurtle and others, he has urged relevant community councils to:

Having spoken to the Powderhall development's site manager, Councillor Jack Caldwell (Ward 12) has now contacted the New Town & Broughton and Leith Central Community Councils, and other interested locals, with the update below.

While there’s nothing hugely substantial to report, I once again iterated the importance of either minimising closure of the path itself, or opening a better diversion due to concerns about the length of diversion and suitability of the currently posted route for wheelchair users, prams, and cyclists as

Broughton properties for sale or rent

BUPA and Centrum Houses (108–14, 116 Dundas St) are up for sale as a single property. Planning permission for demolition of the existing buildings and their replacement by 49 flats (12 affordable), 3 commercial units, amenity space, landscaping and parking was granted in Feb last year. 

A review of the Cockburn Association’s 150-year-anniversary Campaigning for Edinburgh, promised in Issue 355 to appear online here today, won’t.

Blame it on events, dear boy, events. 

Or the boogie. 

Or unpaid Spurtle volunteerism colliding with a career. 

In any case, we anticipate the review’s appearance shortly.

WORK STARTS ON NEW TOWN QUARTER

Morrison Construction 'took possession' of the New Town Quarter site on 28 September before starting work on 5 residential blocks beside Fettes Row, Royal Crescent and King George V Park. 

Developer Ediston told Spurtle yesterday that work over the next 3 months is planned as follows:

Week 1

1.      Establish site boundaries. 

2.      Take delivery of welfare and plant.

Councillors on the Development Management Sub-Cmte today voted, with some reluctance, to approve a retrospective planning application for the Spiegeltent and associated structures in St Andrew Square Garden (25/03046/FUL). 

New proposals ring alarm bells

 

They’ve been a long time coming, but new plans for elements of the 2.4 ha New Town Quarter site between Dundas St and King George V Park have finally appeared.

 

Broughton's beloved Loch Eyre could soon be consigned to memory as work on the New Town Quarter inches closer to starting.

Developer Ediston's Ross McNulty tells us: ''We are in advanced negotiations with contractors to build the private for sale residential blocks opposite Royal Crescent and Fettes Row.

'It is anticipated we will be in a position to confirm the contractor in May this year with a view to starting on site in the summer. We recognise it has been a long wait, and look forward to seeing real site activity taking place soon.

Yesterday, councillors on the Planning Committee voted to take forward draft non-statutory guidance on purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) for public consultation. 

An important aim is to protect the health and wellbeing of students by ensuring that Edinburgh’s PBSA is of good quality and built in the right places. However, this is balanced by a second aim which is to provide new residential dwellings for non-students. All new housing should not negatively affect the existing character and community of the surrounding area.