Planning News
Plans have been submitted for the council’s affordable homes development at Wester Hailes where the former Health Centre stood. The 73 homes are designed by EMA Architecture + Design.
An application has been lodged to change the use of the premises at 28 Rose Street from shop to food and drink with the possibility of public house use. The application will be determined by 2 September.
Black Sheep is planning a move into Haymarket. The coffee shop which has an Edinburgh base at St James Quarter is applying for a licence to fit out one of the 1 Haymarket Square retail units. Bailie Gifford has already leased 280,000 square feet of office space in the Grade A accommodation for a period of 20 years.
The grandstand used in Chariots of Fire is to be refurbished by ESMS (Erskine Stewarts Melville Schools) at Inverleith Playing Fields.
Plans have been submitted by Fletcher Joseph Associates on behalf of CA Ventures for a £20 million 148 student flat development in four blocks at the former Yeaman Place scrapyard. This will involve the demolition of existing buildings and will include associated active travel routes, landscaping and cycle parking. Planning ref 22/03556/FUL
An innovation hub - part of the £1.3 billion Edinburgh and South East Scotland City
Region Deal - will be built on land next to Queen Margaret University in East Lothian. The hub will develop new types of food and drink and will have laboratories and offices. The plans for the £40 million project were approved in June 2021 by the committee who oversee the spending of the fund.