Tag Archives: Planning

SESplan Main Issues Report consultation closing soon!

(adapted from an email from SESplan)

If you wish to comment on this major piece of planning, affecting all of south-east Scotland for the next 20 years, you only have days to do so. SESplan would like to remind everyone to submit their responses on the Main Issues Report no later than 5pm on Wednesday 30 September.

They encourage everyone interested in the future of the region to submit their views on the issues. Comments on the Main Issues Report will be used to inform the next Strategic Development Plan and future planning documents over the next twenty years.

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Parking in Edinburgh – consultation

(adapted from an email from Edinburgh Council)

Edinburgh Council is consulting on its draft parking action plan (PAP). The PAP sets out a range of actions and was approved for consultation by the Transport and Environment Committee on 25 August. The main actions include

  • The extension of parking controls to cover weekends/Sundays and into the evening
  • The roll out of shared use parking places
  • The introduction of visitor permits in the city centre

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Royal High School – planning application submitted

(adapted from an email from the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland)

There has been some concern over plans to build hotel wings flanking the Royal High School on Calton Hill. A planning application has now been submitted. The consultation period ends on 2 October.

Click the graphic to see a flyer for a meeting to be held jointly by the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland and the Cockburn Association on Thursday, 24 September at 6 pm at St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church in George Street.

RHS meeting flyer

Leith Central CC needs YOU!

Leith Central CC member Marion Donaldson was elected to Edinburgh Council on Thursday 11th September. (See here [PDF] for details.) She automatically becomes an ex-officio (non-voting) member, along with the other Edinburgh Councillors, MP and MSP whose wards and constituencies include any part of Leith Central’s area.* The other new ex-officio member is new councillor John Lewis Ritchie. Continue reading →