Marie Curie and Edinburgh Police & Partners have an open day at Fettes
Police Station on 10th September 2017, 11am to 3pm
Click the flyer for further information:
What’s it all about?
A proposal for ‘residential development (class 9 and sui generis flats) together with commercial space (including class 1, 2 and 4) and associated works at the site of the John Lewis depot, Bonnington Road Lane, Edinburgh, EH6 5BJ, for the John Lewis Partnership’
What’s happening just now?
Montagu Evans informed us about the public event, and sent this site-plan. (Click the thumbnail to see the full-sized PDF.)
(adapted from an email sent at 07:53:07 on 29 August 2017 from Leith.Programme@edinburgh.gov.uk)
The following is not just a standard ‘Leith Programme’ announcement: the message below outlines a cluster of major projects, each of which will have a major (negative, at least during the prolonged construction period) impact on Leith Walk and its hinterland, even if well-managed.Particularly noteworthy: no word about how any of this impacts on the completion of the existing ‘Leith Programme’, i.e. fixing Leith Walk along its whole length. Is this just absence of contingency planning – in case the tram outline business case is deemed to be not robust or the tram project start is delayed? Or has the idea to completely repair Leith Walk repairs already been abandoned?
Dear Stakeholder
The Outline Business Case (OBC) for taking Edinburgh’s tram service down to Leith and Newhaven will be published on the Council’s website on Tuesday 29 August at 7.00am.
(with thanks to Laura Stone, Edinburgh St James community liaison at Laing O’Rourke, for supplying this link)
The August Edinburgh St James site newsletter is available to view online via http://www.edinburghstjames.com/construction.html.
(following on from this post, and adapted from an email sent today by Cllr Marion Donaldson. Cllr Donaldson apologised for the delay in responding to our queries – she was waiting for feedback from CEC officers.)
The move of the three-piece Paolozzi sculpture is still at the proposal stage and no final decision has yet been taken.
Officers continue with consultation on the temporary relocation of the art work. Apologies for any confusion this may have caused. Further information follows. Continue reading