SMITHIES ON EYRE PLACE
Gone now, but I can still smell the place's signature scent of beer, bleach and stale cigarette smoke.
#Edinburgh
#hyperlocal
#news
Planning
NEW POWDERHALL HOUSING
KEY FEATURES AND FIRST THOUGHTS
Edinburgh Council has submitted plans for Phase 1 of a mixed housing development on the site of the former Powderhall Waste Transfer Station at 165 Broughton Rd (24/01596/FUL).
Below we summarise some of the principal features of what, at first glance, appears to be an attractive and well-conceived addition to Edinburgh’s housing stock.
POWDERHALL JUNCTION – NEW PLANS
A community engagement event to discuss latest plans for the Broughton Road/McDonald Rd/St Mark’s Path junction will take place on Wednesday 24 January (3.30–7.00pm) in the Link building classrooms at Broughton Primary School.
The junction requires attention because of its proximity to the school and the imminent arrival of new housing on the sites of the former bowling greens and Powderhall Waste Transfer Station.
Consultants Stantec aim to encourage and prioritise active travel and make it safer.
LOCAL HOTEL COULD SOON BE FLATS
Bitter-sweet farewell
S1 Developments Ltd wants to change the use of the hotel at 14–15 Claremont Crescent and reconfigure it as seven 2-bdrm flats with two separate 3-bdrm mews dwellings and limited on-site parking for cars and bikes behind (23//070507/LBC and 23/07058/FUL).
PICARDY PLACE TIMELINE
Frustration about Picardy Place congestion and the charmless new ‘Fantasy Island’ at its centre ignited on social media over the weekend.
Over 50k X users viewed Spurtle’s brief attempt at positive thinking and later observation that sitters in the space are obliged to face outwards towards the traffic rather than inwards towards some unimaginative planting.
MORE THOUGHTS ON PICARDY
After yesterday's article, we thought we should mention that a notable feature of the new Picardy Place is that sitters are encouraged to face outwards, in quiet contemplation of the traffic.
Perhaps this says all we need to know about the interests and priorities of Fantasy Island's designers.
UNEXPLAINED GROWTH IN St ANDREW SQUARE GARDENS
In October 2023, Edinburgh Council’s Development Management Sub-Committee consented Assembly Festival Ltd’s installation of a Spiegeltent for use as a performance space in St Andrew Square Gardens (23/04199/FUL).
Santa’s Stories was to operate as part of Edinburgh's Christmas 2023.
It would: be erected from 6 November; run from 18 November to 6 January 2024; be gone by 14 January 2024.
EYRE PLACE DEVELOPMENT REJECTED AGAIN
Councillors on the Development Management Sub-Committee today unanimously rejected officials
FLAMINGOS MAY FLIT
Edinburgh Street Food proposes to move its freestanding illuminated sign outside the OMNi Centre (23/06731/ADV).
If consented by Planners, in its new position (shown below) the sign would replace a planter and cease to obtrude onto tactile paving.
This change would address earlier concerns from the Council and Scottish Government Reporter about pedestrian safety around the sign and public right of passage.
STUDENT HOUSING REFUSED
London-based HUB Residential Ltd’s application to develop 73-bedroom purpose-built student accommodation at 26 Dunedin St (23/05027/FUL) has been refused. We first reported the case here.