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George V Park - Bottom of Scotland St

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  • Started 8 years ago by dessert rat
  • Latest reply from Frenchy

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  1. dessert rat
    Member

    Planning application now submitted for the RBS site - grim reading for those living locally.

    Anyone wishing to object;
    https://citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk/

    New Build ref: 16/05454/PPP.

    The deadline for comments is 16th December.

    an 8 storey building !!?!!?

    Posted 8 years ago #
  2. Frenchy
    Member

    an 8 storey building !!?!!?
    Nine, by my count. Two are below ground though. I can't tell from my quick look at the plans if it's actually one building, or a number of buildings on the one site (perhaps sharing a basement?).

    Posted 8 years ago #
  3. Morningsider
    Member

    Yikes - 400 flats, hotel, care home, offices and retail. Proposed 527 car parking spaces. The transport assessment predicts just 30 trips by bike in the am and pm peak hours and a cycle modal share of less than 5%. That is below the Edinburgh average and can't be right, given the central location.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  4. chdot
    Admin

    "Proposed 527 car parking spaces"

    Seems a lot, even if all 'hidden' in basement.

    Presume this is partly on what is currently a car park? How many spaces currently?

    Posted 8 years ago #
  5. earthowned
    Member

    "...a provision of 2 [bike parking] spaces per flat should be provided, however, this equates to an overall provision of 800 spaces which is considered to be onerous. The proposals include for one covered cycle space per residential
    dwelling..."

    We have 6 bikes in our 'residential dwelling', and I don't think that is too unusual?

    Posted 8 years ago #
  6. chdot
    Admin

    "and I don't think that is too unusual?"

    I but you do - unless you think CCEers are normal(?)

    Posted 8 years ago #
  7. wingpig
    Member

    "...this equates to an overall provision of 800 spaces which is considered to be onerous..."

    Not nearly as onerous as 527 vehicle parking spaces, which are presumably modern oversized-vehicle-compatible. Bike could even fit one above the other, if the covered bike parking spaces had floor/wall/ceiling-fixed bicycle attachment-points.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  8. Frenchy
    Member

    We have 6 bikes in our 'residential dwelling', and I don't think that is too unusual?

    Unfortunately it is. There are 40+ residences on my street (not in the city centre) and I've never seen anybody who lives in one of the other houses on a bike. When I lived in a block of flats in the city centre, the number of bikes/flat was about 0.5.

    If the spaces are unallocated, then I can believe that 1 per flat is probably sufficient at the moment. Hopefully it won't be sufficient in the future - and the developers need to account for that.

    Posted 8 years ago #

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