Amost before the paint has dried on their new student accommodation at 7 Shrub Place, Ziggurat (Shrubhill) LLP have applied for planning permission to extend and reconfigure it (Ref. 16/00191/FUL).
The changes would add 38 student beds to the 260 already in place.
On Monday we reported a recent planning decision in St Andrew Square, and lamented the current condition of the Gardens.
In researching that story, we found references to the original principles behind opening the area to the public in 2008, but could not find an original document laying out those principles on the Council's online Planning Portal.
It is still not available there, although we understand that Spurtle's prompting means it will appear soon.
Essential Edinburgh’s controversial application to extend the coffee pavilion in St Andrew Square Gardens has been withdrawn (Ref. 14/04840/FUL).
As first reported this time last year (‘Death by a thousand pees’), EE applied to upgrade:
Photos posted online of the latest desecration of St Andrew Square have met with a huge response.
Yesterday, we asked readers if there was anything they'd like to say to Essential Edinburgh about the changes, and we later invited Council leader Councillor Andrew Burns to gauge the reaction.
Essential Edinburgh’s commercialisation of St Andrew Square will take another step forward if its plans to extend the café there are approved (Ref. 14/04840/FUL).
Bruce Munro’s ‘Field of Light’ installation will be turned on at 5.00pm in St Andrew Square this evening.
Some 9,000 or 9,500 swaying glass balls on illuminated stalks – all of which change colour and promise visitors a free ‘immersive experience’ – will remain in place until 27 or 28 April. (Official sources differ.)