Planning News

AN APPLICATION has been lodged for new signage on number 65 George Street with some fit out works which will allow

Abercrombie & Fitch to open in the former Jack Wills unit.

Caffè Nero is moving to the former TSB premises on the corner of Castle Street and Rose Street and has applied for permission to fit out the premises at 19 Castle Street.

The coffee shop will have dual elevations.

The £15 million MacMillan Hub just off Pennywell Road is making progress with the contractors Robertson Construction Limited now on site.

Plans have been submitted for conversion of the former Port Edgar Naval Barracks on Society in South Queensferry to housing with a café and single serviced apartment. There are 49 apartments planned by Lar Housing Trust.

The former BHS store on Princes Street is to become an upmarket fashion retailer, Flannels. The 24,000 square feet is to be let by LaSalle Investment Management on behalf of the British Coal Pension Fund. This is their first store in Scotland - with a handful of others spread from the east to west coasts of England.

There is an online consultation event on 7 June from 4.30pm to 6.30 pm for the A-listed former Scottish Widows building next to the Royal Commonwealth Pool.

The site at 15 Dalkeith Road could become 200 houses and green offices.

Plans have been lodged for Plots 13 - 125 West Craigs by Smith Scott Mullan Associates for Dunedin Canmore. This development of 125 new homes with roads and infrastructure including hard and soft landscaping will be built on a site 100 metres north east of 19 Turnhouse Road.