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  1. chdot
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    Earlier plans which included demolition of the two storey red sandstone building on Leith Walk at Stead’s Place were rejected, forcing the developer to go back to the drawing board.

    The building on Leith Walk has been saved, and the remainder of the site can now be developed as the council approved plans for 148 apartments which will include 38 affordable homes, and what is described as an attractive landscaped residential scheme linking to Pilrig Park at its planning meeting on Wednesday. Cllr Chas Booth who represents the Leith Ward tried to have a condition attached to the permission ensuring that an active travel route would become part of the plans. He reported after the meeting that none of the other councillors seconded his request, which he says would have meant that the council acted in accord with its own guidelines.

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    https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2021/06/drums-leith-walk-plans-approved

    Posted 2 years ago #

  2. Ribena
    Member

    In terms of the St Kentigerns development, my understanding is that it’s a mixture of ‘mid market rent’ and private tenure - and that residents won’t be allowed car access through the pend. They seem to have put a gate in at the end of Rope Walk but that must be for site/ emergency services access.
    The pinned up pend/wall situation has been going on for a while now - there was talk of getting insurers involved as it seems to have been caused originally by someone driving into the wall (connected to the cannabis farm???) but wasn’t discovered until the flat on the end was sold, as no-one in the building has pend access.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  3. chdot
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    The new owners aim to build on some of Scotland’s best public transport links, including Edinburgh trams, Lothian bus routes and Edinburgh Park train station on its doorstep, partly by creating better walking and cycling routes.

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    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/edinburghs-gyle-shopping-centre-set-to-transform-into-ps500-million-urban-quarter-3261741

    Posted 2 years ago #

  4. chdot
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    https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/19388055.glasgow-student-flat-development-restrictions-imposed/

    Posted 2 years ago #

  5. chdot
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    It is part of the Granton Waterfront Regeneration, where over 3,500 homes are set to be created over the next ten years, with greater emphasis on pedestrian and cycle movement, electrical car charging, car club accessibility and public transport.

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    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/environment/scotlands-largest-net-zero-housing-development-gets-the-go-ahead-at-edinburghs-granton-waterfront-3297254

    Posted 2 years ago #

  6. chdot
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    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/business/student-flats-plan-for-office-block-in-edinburghs-meadowbank-falls-through-3307846

    Posted 2 years ago #

  7. chdot
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    A variation on thread title -

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    More than 7,500 people have signed a petition to save the site. Bradley Gibb, who started the petition on the change.org site, said: “We can't let big business keep taking down the life lines for our inner city youth to make way for yet more student accommodation.”

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    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/council/plan-to-replace-edinburghs-world-of-football-with-housing-and-student-flats-doesnt-smell-right-says-councillor-3387268

    Posted 2 years ago #

  8. chdot
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    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/council/we-need-affordable-homes-not-student-megablocks-edinburgh-councillor-opposes-plans-to-build-student-flats-in-gorgie-3402940

    Posted 2 years ago #

  9. chdot
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    “Just under two-thirds (c.35,000) of students are not able to access either university managed or private purpose-built accommodation and with a student population rising at three per cent a year this is clearly putting pressure on traditional housing stock as these young people have to be housed somewhere.”

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    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/council/edinburgh-councillors-clash-over-controversial-student-flats-proposed-for-old-tynecastle-high-3404487

    Posted 2 years ago #

  10. the canuck
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    The bigger question is why the student population is increasing by 3% each year.
    Do we have 3% more young people each year?
    Is the range of work requiring degrees increasing by 3% each year?

    Or is it universities increasing their overseas intake?

    Posted 2 years ago #

  11. chdot
    Admin

    No doubt the later.

    Higher fees.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  12. gembo
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    @the Canuck. The student is the unit of commodity. Allows mad buildings with weird 7 bed flats to spring up. no one else would live in them. The Uni then make them come back during Covid to recoup the rentals. The poor lambs get stuck in Aberdeen for months.

    DIY stores become student flats. Skip hire firms become student flats. FailedvKGB football club owners failing to turn schools into hotels turn into student flats.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  13. crowriver
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    @the canuck, international students are a big money spinner for universities, especially taught postgraduate study as this is effectively unregulated income. Edinburgh is an attractive "destination city" for students, they can combine studying with living for a year or more in the picturesque birthplace of Harry Potter, Edinburgh Fringe, etc. Educational tourism, more or less.

    Speculative purpose built student accommodation is exempt from VAT and does not have to meet minimum standards for normal flats for non-students. So it's a big money spinner for unscrupulous property developers.

    Ker-Ching! Trebles all round! (Except for permanent city residents).

    Posted 2 years ago #

  14. SRD
    Moderator

    Agree with all that. Still have several undergraduate students struggling to find accommodation at the start of their first year. Apparently a big problem this year.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  15. chdot
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    The spokesperson said Haymarket Yards will be a zero-car parking development and will include cycle parking for 154 bikes.

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    https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/19843020.edinburgh-scheme-meet-strong-demand-student-housing/

    Posted 2 years ago #

  16. chdot
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    Pretty much back on topic!

    Ex builders’ yard.

    https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2022/08/residents-continue-their-campaign-against-student-housing-on-eyre-place-lane/

    Posted 1 year ago #

  17. chdot
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    https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/20680821.225-bath-street-glasgow-city-centre-building-demolished-student-accommodation-project/

    Posted 1 year ago #

  18. chdot
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    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/council/edinburgh-residents-fight-latest-proposal-for-new-student-accommodation-in-eyre-place-canonmills-3818394

    Posted 1 year ago #

  19. chdot
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    A councillor has urged developers to scrap proposals for student accommodation in the Jock’s Lodge area, amid claims that locals are fed up of ‘tacky blocks being thrown up’ with no benefit to the wider community.

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    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/edinburgh-planning-jocks-lodge-student-accommodation-plans-see-councillor-urge-developers-to-reconsider-3821119

    Posted 1 year ago #

  20. chdot
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    Court-ordered demolition of 850 flats seen as stern warning to developers amid rampant illegal construction

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    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/28/india-demolishes-100-metre-towers-outside-delhi

    Posted 1 year ago #

  21. chdot
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    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/edinburgh-caledonian-brewery-150-year-old-brewery-could-become-student-flats-as-heineken-fails-to-find-buyer-3868572

    Posted 1 year ago #

  22. chdot
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    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/council/edinburgh-student-accommodation-protest-at-undemocratic-scottish-government-decision-over-tynecastle-plans-4023629

    Posted 1 year ago #

  23. chdot
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    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/council/edinburghs-leith-walk-to-get-new-student-housing-development-after-plans-given-go-ahead-4124339

    Posted 1 year ago #

  24. chdot
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    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/council/edinburgh-planning-plans-for-daltons-yard-in-leith-featured-in-trainspotting-sequel-to-be-scrapped-for-student-flats-4250460

    Posted 9 months ago #

  25. chdot
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    Both the pub and the building which houses it, now called The Red Sandstone, are a symbol of Leith resistance to council and corporate plans – once destined to be and replaced by student housing it remains, a survivor fought for by the Save Leith Walk campaign, though most of the businesses it once homed are gone.

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    https://archive.is/XHbxR

    Posted 9 months ago #

  26. chdot
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    Original plans to build 87 residential units (including three storey townhouses), one commercial unit and an underground car park for 25 cars on the brownfield site have since been replaced with a higher concentration of student accommodation with a separate block of affordable housing.

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    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/lifestyle/homes-and-gardens/edinburgh-student-housing-plans-submitted-for-289-student-rooms-as-part-of-the-new-waverley-masterplan-4268367

    Posted 8 months ago #

  27. chdot
    Admin

    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/edinburgh-housing-crisis-heritage-chiefs-slam-over-dominance-of-student-flats-plans-for-holyrood-area-4336289

    Posted 8 months ago #

  28. chdot
    Admin

    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/edinburgh-student-accommodation-new-application-for-eyre-place-canonmills-just-three-months-after-refusal-4335048

    Posted 8 months ago #

  29. chdot
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    Councillor McKenzie added that claims by the company about the site being a hotspot for antisocial behaviour were a ‘low blow’. “The comment linking the pub with antisocial behaviour is a low blow. Some of those stories are decades old and there have been no issues in recent years. I haven't met anyone in Gorgie who wants to see another student block on Westfield Road. People have had enough, and insulting comments about antisocial behaviour will just make people more determined to resist this development."

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    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/call-to-halt-bid-to-turn-murrayfield-sports-bar-into-student-flats-over-serious-concerns-about-developers-4368421

    Posted 7 months ago #

  30. chdot
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    Plans for former Edinburgh charity headquarters to be turned into student flats

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    https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/plans-former-edinburgh-charity-headquarters-28074099?

    Posted 6 months ago #

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