A city centre gallery could be closed to make way for a coffee shop and deli, if plans are approved by the council.
Proposals were submitted to transform Colours Gallery this week, with developers hoping to alter the category B-listed building. Minor alterations are proposed to change the interior of the building. Downstairs, the plans hope to remove doors and low level partition walls.
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The building has stood in the area since the early 19th century, and was added to the protected list of Edinburgh structures in 1966. Historic Environment Scotland describes the building on their Listed Building portal. They say: “A significant surviving part of one of the most important, and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.
“It makes up one quarter of the four near-identical palace blocks of the Second New Town’s central avenue. It was part of the first extension of the New Town planned. This imposing street would have appeared even more dramatic when the trees at either end were young enough for view to extend to include London Street to the east, and Royal Circus to the west.”
Plans have now been submitted to the City of Edinburgh Council, with an official decision yet to be made. This comes just a few months after a submission to alter the empty Dundas Street lot that was once The Long Gallery, and turn it into a ‘luxury’ dog parlour.
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