As part of efforts to create a ‘vision’ for Portobello Town Centre, City of Edinburgh Council Planners have published the attached report and recommendations. The vision for Portobello is to create and promote: a place with an active public street life with a quality public realm that is comfortable for all users and thereby would […]

REF: 16/06447/FUL & 16/06449/LBC Portobello Community Council objects to the above applications concerning 14 Bath Street, Portobello. The new owners and the agent for the application attended our meeting on November 28th last year asking for feedback on their new proposals for re-development. To that end we ran a short consultation to gather the views […]

Planning Application: 16/05898/FUL Please find our following comments on the above application. To ascertain local views on the proposals we undertook an extensive survey and the results of that are attached in a separate document. We would wish these comments and views of the community to be considered in detail in relation to the assessment of […]

City of Edinburgh Council are advertising the Powerleague site at Westbank Street, Portobello, for sale, along with the Tumbles car park. The blurb says:   “The site is currently part used as a five-a-side facility and part as a car park for the Council owned Tumbles Leisure facility on Westbank Street. The site extends to […]

The owners of 14 Bath Street – the former bingo hall and George Cinema – have now submitted revised proposals to demolish the majority of the building and create a residential block of 20 units, parking and related landscaping. The proposals include:-  demolition of the majority of the building  retention of the original art deco facade where […]

The following application, listed in the planning list this week, may be of interest:   ·         16/05756/FUL: Change of Use from shop unit (Class 1) into restaurant (Class 3) external alterations. at 46 Portobello High Street   And the following decision:   ·         16/05449/PPP has been refused: Clear an area of approximately 405 square metres […]

The following application, listed in the planning list this week, may be of interest: 16/05768/FUL: Construction of a new 8 flats housing development on a vacant site; at Land 14 Metres Northeast Of Figgate Street Weekly-List-06.12.16A.pdf Weekly-List-06.12.16D.pdf 16_05768_FUL-DESIGN_STATEMENT_AND_ACCOMMODATION_SCHEDULE_-_4_PAGES-3475826.pdf 16_05768_FUL-_12__MODEL_IMAGE-3475824.pdf 16_05768_FUL-_01__LOCATION_PLAN-3475823.pdf 16_05768_FUL-_02__SITE_PLAN_-_GROUND_FLOOR_PLAN-3475830.pdf

The owners of 14 Bath Street – the former bingo hall and George Cinema – would like some quick feedback from the community on revised proposals to convert the building to a residential block of 20 units, parking and related landscaping. The proposals include:-  demolition of the majority of the building  retention of the original […]

The team appointed by The City of Edinburgh Council to take forward the design development of Treverlen Park are holding two exhibitions at St John’s RC Primary School. The first event is Thursday 1 December from 15.30 – 19.30, with a second event, same time and location on 13 December. The park will be built […]

​ City of Edinburgh Council Planning Department is looking to create a vision for Portobello High Street to support it to maximise its potential for shopping, visiting and being comfortable for people to move around the street.     The supplementary guidance will provide the detailed policy to assess planning applications for shop uses in the […]