http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Aldi Portobello planning application - comments close today (14/07) en Tue, 19 May 2026 00:57:56 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15129#post-193213 Tue, 14 Jul 2015 13:37:20 +0000 urchaidh 193213@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Really short notice on this one, sorry. </p> <p>This is the detailed application for a new Aldi store in Portobello, filling in the blanks in the original application - the PCC link explains it better:</p> <p><a href="http://www.portobellocc.org/pccpn/2015/06/23/chance-to-comment-on-aldi-store-details/" rel="nofollow">http://www.portobellocc.org/pccpn/2015/06/23/chance-to-comment-on-aldi-store-details/</a></p> <p>For me, from a cycling/walking point of view, it's a bit of a disaster - too many car spaces, no paths through or ocross the car park, reversing articulated lorries across path crossings, poorly laid out junction with Portobello High street...</p> <p>This development, with the larger residential development it sits next to, would have been a great chance to get a path through from the end of Fishwives Causeway west of SHL Road down to the prom, via Westbank street maybe. </p>