Click to download: 2017_02_28 final
Planning
Housing scheme next to Ocean Terminal?
Taylor Wimpey is selling some land near Ocean Terminal. (The closing date noon on 30 March, in case you want to bid for it.)
It appears that the land is considered to be a ‘prime residential site’. Details are in this brochure or online at http://skylineredinburgh.com.
Ocean Terminal hotel – ‘minded to grant’
Edinburgh Council is ‘minded to grant’ planning permission in principle for a hotel at Ocean Terminal. This permission is subject to various conditions. Details are in the following Edinburgh Council documents:
Waterfront Plaza: current status
LHNCC has been informed by the project’s architect that
We have had a number of meetings with the CEC planning department regarding the proposals and are making good progress. The design issues have been discussed with their urban design officer and the principle planner and in our view a number of improvements incorporated. These can be summarised as follows: Continue reading
Consultation: Developer Contributions and Infrastructure Delivery
Edinburgh Council wants your views on its draft supplementary guidance on Developer Contributions and Infrastructure Delivery. To learn more, and let the council know what you think, go to https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/developer-contributions-infrastructure-delivery-sg/
NB This consultation closes on 3 February.
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Improving Scotland’s planning system: get involved!
(adapted from a post on the Scottish Community Alliance website)
An independent review of the Scottish planning system (May 2016) commissioned by the Scottish Government recommended that actions should be taken to ensure that community involvement in planning for place is fairer and more inclusive. A White Paper is due to be published in early 2017 outlining proposed changes to the planning system – including tackling barriers to greater involvement in planning, taking account of measures contained in the Community Empowerment Act and the Land Reform Act.
As part of this work, yellow book, along with the Scottish Community Development Centre and Nick Wright Planning, have been commissioned to investigate the factors which inhibit communities, young people and other seldom-heard groups from engaging in the planning system. Continue reading
Publication of Proposed Strategic Development Plan
(Adapted from an email from SESplan)
SESplan, the Strategic Development Planning Authority for South East Scotland, has prepared a new Proposed Strategic Development Plan. The Proposed Strategic Development Plan sets out a vision, broad development patterns and levels of growth for the city region over a 20 year period from 2018.
It is intended that the plan will replace the current Strategic Development Plan in 2018 and will inform the next set of Local Development Plans in the future. The Proposed Strategic Development Plan is based on the options in, and responses to, the 2015 Main Issues Report.
The Proposed Strategic Development Plan, the Environmental Report and other supporting documents are available to view on the SESplan website: www.sesplan.gov.uk
The formal period of representations on the Proposed Strategic Development Plan will start on 13 October and run until 5pm on Thursday 24 November 2016. During this period anyone will be able to submit representations using the SESplan Consultation Portal: Continue reading
Edinburgh 20mph Speed Limits – Go Live
(adapted from a post on Tower Wharf Residents’ Association website. It is presumed that the original text came from Edinburgh Council.)
From Sunday 31 July, the legal speed limit in streets across much of Edinburgh’s city centre and rural west area will go down to 20mph, the first phase in a planned rollout of lower speeds across the Capital.
The new speed limits are designed to increase safety for all road users in Edinburgh as well as creating a calmer, more people-friendly environment in shopping and residential streets. A network of key arterial roads across the city will be retained at 30mph and 40mph, resulting in a modest impact on journey times overall. Continue reading
LHNCC March meeting agenda
Click to download: 2016_03_22 agenda
Easter Road Game Changer
(adapted from an email from Tahl Kaminer, Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory, University of Edinburgh)
Hibernian Community Foundation, the charity arm of Hibernian FC, has launched Game Changer, an ambitious Public Social Partnership in collaboration with many partners, chief among them NHS Lothian and Edinburgh City Council.
‘The aim is to unlock the power and passion associated with football and to make greater use of all Hibernian’s physical, cultural and professional assets, to deliver a better, healthier future for the most vulnerable, disenfranchised or disadvantaged in our communities.’
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