Tag: Development

Save Leith Walk setback as report recommends Drum proposals

The community campaign working to save historic sandstone buildings on Leith Walk is calling on councillors to represent the wishes of the community and vote against the demolition and proposed development when they meet next week. Continue reading Save Leith Walk setback as report recommends Drum proposals

Transforming the waterfront: ‘key partners’ sign pledge

The City of Edinburgh Council, National Galleries of Scotland, National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh College, Scottish Government and Scottish Futures Trust have signed an agreement to work together to create a new vibrant, city quarter in Granton Waterfront – but a Conservative MSP says the plans lack ambition.

Local community councils were not invited to sign the agreement.

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Community campaign steps up bid to save Leith Walk

SUPPORTERS of the grassroots campaign to save Leith Walk from a controversial student accommodation and hotel development have been urged to register their objections to a revised proposal submitted to City of Edinburgh Council ahead of a decision in the new year.  Continue reading Community campaign steps up bid to save Leith Walk

Leith Walk: the Cockburn Association view

“It’s hard to see how erasing all the buildings along Leith Walk will preserve or enhance anything. Once heritage is lost it is very hard to replace.”

Leith has always been Edinburgh’s port and still retains a distinctive quality of its own even though it has changed significantly in recent years. It has been reinvented as a lively centre of urban living, a good food destination, and as a hub of creative activity and cultural diversity. Continue reading Leith Walk: the Cockburn Association view