Category Archives: Meetings and minutes and reports

Conservation Area character appraisals

(adapted from an email from Edinburgh Council)

Edinburgh Council is currently reviewing its character appraisals for Edinburgh’s conservation areas.

Character appraisals guide the local planning authority in making planning decisions and, where opportunities arise, in preparing enhancement proposals.

The current character appraisal for Leith can be viewed here:

http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/1099/leith_conservation_area_character_appraisalpdf

The intention is to make the appraisals more interactive and the first of these has been completed for the Grange Conservation Area:

http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/directory_record/377091/grange_conservation_area

A draft revised character appraisal is programmed for presentation to the Planning Committee in February 2015. Following this there will be a comprehensive consultation on the appraisal.

At this stage, we would be pleased to know if there are any issues you would like to see included in the draft appraisal.

Please contact me if you would like to discuss this or arrange a meeting.

Jack Gillon, Principal Practitioner, Built & Natural Heritage, Services for Communities, The City of Edinburgh Council, Waverley Court, Level G3, 4 East Market Street Edinburgh, EH8 8BG. Tel 0131 469 3634. jack.gillon@edinburgh.gov.uk www.edinburgh.gov.uk

September LCCC meeting minutes DRAFT

Click to download: 2014_09_22 draft

Please note that these are draft minutes and so may change when considered at the next meeting. If there are any queries, please contact LCCC – see our contacts page.

Topics discussed included

LCCC’s website
alcohol and drugs issues
Cala Home’s plans for sorting office site on Brunswick Road
Leith Walk repairs and improvements
Pilrig Park
Edinburgh Local development plan

Research into CCs’ online performances – how is Leith Central doing?

On Monday, Bruce Ryan gave a talk on his research into CC’s online performances, and then looked at LCCC’s performance. It is doing pretty well, which might be expected because Bruce is LCCC’s web-weaver (and the author of this post). However, there are ways that LCCC might improve its e-engagement, and work is in progress on one of these.

Here are Bruce’s slides, and here are his his speaking notes. The sources for these are

Brunswick Road development: Cala Homes illustrations

Thanks to Gavin Pope of Cala Homes for providing the complete board for this proposed development. It may be helpful to read it along with the forthcoming September meeting minutes.

Because it’s a large file (10MB, 3100mm by 1300mm), it may take a long time to download and render. Viewing it on a mobile device screen may also be challenging. So I’ve taken the liberty of breaking the file into smaller units. Any mistakes in this process are due to me (Bruce Ryan), not Leith Central CC or Cala Homes.

00 whole	01 streetscape and landscape
02 traffic and parking	03 plans
04 precedent	05 apartment layouts
06 elevations and section	07 site layout
08 Ariel view from west	09 EW from west end of Brunswick Road
10 view from junction between Brunswick Road and West Montgomery Place	11 view west from Brunswick Road
12 view from east end of Brunswick Road	13 aerial view from east

August LCCC meeting minutes – final

Click to download: 2014_08_18 final

There are no content changes from the draft version published soon after the August meeting.