The Reporter acting for the Scottish Government’s Planning and Environmental Appeals Division has issued a Notice of Intention regarding the stalled New Town Quarter development between Dundas Street and King George V Park (PPA-230-2755).
Passing through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0RtQRnZwSw
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Councillors on the Development Management Sub-Cmte today voted 7 votes to 4 to refuse planning consent for revised plans about parts of overall proposals for the New Town Quarter between Dundas Street and King George V Park.
Planning officers recommend approving plans to develop the 2.7 ha former Royal Bank of Scotland site between Dundas St and King George V Park.
Orion Capital proposals include spending £250m to develop commercial space, 315 new homes (108 of them ‘affordable’) and purpose-built student accommodation for 591 people.
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:
1. Establish site boundaries.
2. Take delivery of welfare and plant.
Work on the 5.9-acre site of the former Royal Bank of Scotland HQ between Dundas St and King George V Park, due to start in July, has been delayed again. Major changes to the plans originally consented in Sept 2021 (20/03034/FUL) are on the way (see Masterplan image below).
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.
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.
A changed economic climate in the wake of Covid-19 has forced Ediston and Orion Capital Managers to scrap plans for an upmarket hotel as part of the New Town North development between Dundas Street and King George V Park. [See update at foot of page.]