http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Pre-application consultation event for proposed hotel on Picardy Place" en Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:16:06 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11294#post-127538 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:26:43 +0000 cc 127538@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I used to cycle round all the Cameron Toll roundabouts late at night, until I realised that I could eliminate them entirely by taking a quiet route through Priestfield/Prestonfield instead. Much nicer.</p> <p>I'd love to see the top Leith Walk roundabout replaced by a hotel, as long as it eliminated the road between the hotel and the cathedral. Should simplify the Broughton St junction nicely. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11294#post-127528 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:25:03 +0000 kaputnik 127528@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>For all your cyclist blending requirements I recommend a trip to Cameron Toll pentagonabout. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11294#post-127525 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:17:06 +0000 Min 127525@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh really? I am struggling to keep up with the Leith Walk thing. I guess that means the cyclist blender has been scrapped. Not a bad thing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11294#post-127496 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:02:45 +0000 crowriver 127496@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Min, wrong roundabout. They have resurface York Place, will be removing London Road roundabout (a Good Thing) but Picardy Place remains as is largely, except for seregated bike lane on southbound approach from Elm Row... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11294#post-127491 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:50:54 +0000 Min 127491@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So will this be done before or after £10000000000 has been spent on re-doing the roundabout as part of the Leith Walk upgrade? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11294#post-127490 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:49:23 +0000 allytibbitt 127490@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've written to GVA to ask if this event is on or off, but they haven't got back to me.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11294#post-127418 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 07:26:10 +0000 gembo 127418@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks Kapps</p> <p>Good to see the tram lines running along Picardy Place.</p> <p>All churches and Theatre Royal. Seems to have been a whole neighbourhood taken out. </p> <p>Not just Glasgow that removed neighbourhoods then </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11294#post-127412 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 23:46:28 +0000 kaputnik 127412@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From the 1894 OS Town Plan of Edinburgh;</p> <p><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3717/10146028563_c54bc74de8.jpg"></p> <p>So yes the Cathedral was already there. However it was always a very narrow set of streets and if you built a hotel in the triangle in the middle I can guarantee you we would end up with another Missoni cycle lane debacle.</p> <p>Consult the full map in greater detail <a href="http://maps.nls.uk/view/74415752">here</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11294#post-127383 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 19:40:19 +0000 gembo 127383@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@eddieD, nice photo of Picardy place when it was a place not a lay by and there was no John Lewis, St James Centre, etc. was the Cathedral built at that time too? Looks cool but houses about to be knocked down? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11294#post-127373 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:21:18 +0000 chdot 127373@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> Scottish Civic Trust (@scotcivictrust)<br /> 07/10/2013 11:46<br /> @thecockburn We got a letter on Friday to say that this event has been postponed. No new date set yet.</p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11294#post-127348 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:47:58 +0000 EddieD 127348@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Effectively returning the road layout to the original layout (Union Place) before the St James Square massacre.</p> <p>EDIT: For those on facebook:-</p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=275809965810027&amp;set=a.394071123983910.88603.162922127098812&amp;type=3&amp;theater" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=275809965810027&amp;set=a.394071123983910.88603.162922127098812&amp;type=3&amp;theater</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11294#post-127342 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:20:55 +0000 Morningsider 127342@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My assumption is that the street layout would be changed, so Picardy Place and Leith Street would return to being seperate streets and the hotel would take up a triangular site consisting of the roundabout, much of Cathedral Square and the dead space taken up by road, hatching, planting etc. </p> <p>I've vague recollections of this development being included in the St James Centre redevelopment plans by the same property company. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11294#post-127336 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:00:17 +0000 kaputnik 127336@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've no idea how this might work. The roundabout isn't that big, how on earth can you fit a hotel on it or provide access to it off a roundabout? How can there be ground-level "mixed use" units - in the middle of a roundabout? It all makes so little sense. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11294#post-127334 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:56:13 +0000 twq 127334@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm confused about what is being suggested. A big hotel with the roads underneath it? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11294#post-127333 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:52:36 +0000 Morningsider 127333@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Council should be able to get the developers to stump up for segregated cycle lanes linking the end of the Leith Walk works with the George Street segregated lanes. Would be good to fill-in the missing link at no cost to the public purse. Might be worth asking about, if anyone can make it along. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11294#post-127331 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:46:20 +0000 chdot 127331@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> 09/10/2013<br /> 2:00 pm - 7:30 pm</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://greenerleith.org.uk/leith-events/events/pre-application-consultation-event-for-proposed-hotel-on-picardy-place" rel="nofollow">http://greenerleith.org.uk/leith-events/events/pre-application-consultation-event-for-proposed-hotel-on-picardy-place</a> </p> <p>(Wednesday) </p>