Plans to demolish an abandoned Edinburgh industrial estate in the north east of the capital and replace it with flats are set to be granted this week.
The planning application for the redevelopment of the site, on Pitt Street, was lodged at the end of November 2021 and is finally to be discussed during a Development Management Sub-Committee meeting on Wednesday, June 9.
Planning officers with the City of Edinburgh Council have recommended that the plans be granted, but noted nearly 30 letters of objection. The five units are located where the popular Pitt Market formerly operated out of.
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Five single-storey light industrial buildings and their associated storage yards would be bulldozed and replaced by two flatted buildings consisting of 98 'luxury' flats adjacent to Trafalgar Lane.
Of the flats, 25 (25 percent) are to be affordable. The largest of the two buildings is L shape in plan and has a frontage onto both Pitt Street and South Fort Street.
It will be five-storeys with the top floor set-back for the majority of the length on both Pitt Street and South Forth Street. Private roof terraces are proposed along approximately two-thirds of the south elevation. All of the Pitt Street/South Fort Street flats have lifts provided within the stair cores.
The smaller of the two buildings is an elongated rectangular shape and has a frontage onto Trafalgar Lane. The building is three-storeys with accommodation in the roof space. The upper flats are colony style accessed from external stairs from the secure courtyard garden.
The development will consist of 28 one-bedroom flats, 48 two-bedroom, 22 three-bedroom, 26 single aspect flats and 29 ground floor flats that have access to a private garden. 42 flats have a private balcony and 27 have a private roof terrace.
All flats are to have access to the communal courtyard garden and there is no proposed parking. Cycle parking is provided in two internal and integral cycle stores in the Pitt Street/South Fort Street building and four internal and integral cycle stores in the Trafalgar Lane building.
Council planning officers say: "The proposal will deliver a sustainable and well-designed, predominantly residential scheme that will contribute to climate mitigation and adaptation and the restoration and enhancement of biodiversity.
"The development plan encourages well-designed, compact urban growth that is sustainable and allows for 20-minute neighbourhood principles to be delivered.
"The proposal is compatible with these principles, as well as policy priorities that include sustainability in terms of transport and materials use, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and development on brownfield land."
The plans will be discussed among councillors during Wednesday's meeting where a decision to grant may be made.
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