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Home, sweet home at Shortbread Court

Shortbread

Housing Convener Councillor Cammy Day opened the city’s newest affordable housing development at Shortbread Court in Granton earlier today.

The £2.9m construction of 27 homes used £767,000 funding from the Affordable Housing Supply Programme, which is managed by the City of Edinburgh Council on behalf of the Scottish Government.

Built by Queensberry Properties Ltd (Cruden Homes East Scotland), the properties consist of one-and two-bedroom flats and meet Link design standards for affordable housing.

Each home has gas central heating and hot water systems, high thermal insulation and double glazing to create warm, comfortable and energy-efficient homes that will be easy and economical to run.

Councillor Day said: “We were delighted to work with our housing partners to deliver this development of desirable, energy efficient homes in a regenerated area of the city, which hard working people can afford to live in. Joining forces with organisations such as Link is allowing the Council to build record numbers of much-needed affordable housing.”

Link Group Chairman, Roy Stirrat, said: “We are delighted to have been supported by the Scottish Government and the City of Edinburgh Council to enable us to continue to provide new, high quality homes at rents affordable to people on low or limited fixed incomes. Since 2013, Link has built 138 new homes for social and intermediate rent in Edinburgh which have played a part in tackling the Capital’s shortage of affordable homes.”

The future of Granton Harbour?

124_3510A steady stream of interested local residents called in to Granton Youth Centre to see the latest plans for Granton Marina earlier this month.

The latest plan is to create a ‘unique coastal community’, featuring:

  • 1500 new homes (with parking provision for each one)
  • An international-standard five-star marina and Spa Hotel with 113 bedrooms and a restaurant/bar seating 125, plus coffee shop,
  • A health spa with indoor swimming pool and jacuzzi
  • Conference facilities
  • A marina and boatyard with 400 berths
  • 30,000 sq m of retail, leisure and business space
  • ‘Best of Scotland’ indoor market
  • Fashion outlet mall
  • A food court and restaurants
  • Covered walkway to and from car parking
  • A multi-storey car park
  • The Granton spur section of the tram line (with a tram stop) is also factored in.

Views on the day were divided. Some welcome the idea of long-overdue investment in an area with undoubted potential, while others have major concerns over the traffic implications.

One Lower Granton Road resident said: “We’ve seen plans like this before and they’ve come to nothing so I won’t be holding my breath. Personally I don’t think many local residents would have too much difficulty with what’s being proposed but for one major drawback – traffic.

“First the heavy lorries when the site is being constructed, then the sheer volume of traffic a development of this nature could bring is a real worry. We could see thousands of additional cars – visitors and residents – on local roads.

“Roads and traffic have been a problem down here for years and can’t cope with the volume of traffic as it is – these proposals would make it a hell of a lot worse. Planners will have to consider ways of resolving that, because if they don’t this development is a non-starter.”

Developers will examine comments made on the day and produce a report before moving on to the next stage of the planning process. There’s clearly a lot more talking to be done.

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