Please follow the alphabetical links below to all issues and LIVE campaigns concerning Pilrig. Not all of them are being actively pursued (due to lack of time and resources); some of them are little more than issues that have been brought to the Association's atttention with suggestions of how you, as a citizen of Pilrig, can do something towards improving the quality of life in our neighbourhood. If you have any more ideas, please get in touch.
| LIVE | Dryden Rail Bridge - problems and solutions (25/9/00) |
| Litter and rats on the railtrack (31/8/00) | |
| Litter outside premises (31/8/00) | |
| LIVE | 95 and 99 McDonald Road (27/11/02) |
| LIVE | North East Edinburgh Local Plan Review (4/2/02) |
| Parking of lorries, large vans and buses in Pilrig Street (31/8/00) | |
| Pilrig Development Plan (11/11/99) | |
| LIVE | Pilrig Park - loss of open space (30/9/00) |
| LIVE | Shrub Place Campaign (28/11/02) |
These are two sites next to each other - the former Bridgeside Works (last used by Hunter & Foulis) and Bowershall Mills (last used as a soft furniture warehouse). Proposals in outline:
| 95
McDonald Road Constraints: · Listed Category B Application No. 02/04016/FUL Proposed Development and Address: Conversion of existing warehouse to form mix of parking, offices and flatted residential units and ancillary site works, landscaping, etc at 95 McDonald Road Edinburgh EH7 4NS Applicant’s Name and Address: F M Developments Ltd. c/o The William Cowie Partnership. 6/7 Albyn Lane Aberdeen AB10 6SZ Agent’s Name And Address: The William Cowie Partnership. 6/7 Albyn Lane Aberdeen AB10 6SZ Expected Method of Decision: Committee Date Registered 4th November 2002 Case Officer: Lynsey Townsend - 0131 529 4279 (FAX 529 3717) This development is already on site and has a previous planning permission for 49 residential units in the rear bock. New application for rear block is for 25 residential units and offices on two floors. |
99
McDonald Road Constraints: · Listed Category CS Application No. 02/04035/FUL Proposed Development and Address: Formation of office accommdation fronting Mcdonald Road with residential development to rear at 99 McDonald Road Edinburgh EH7 4NP Applicant’s Name and Address: J Smart + Co (Contractors) Plc. c/o J Smart + Co (Contractors) Plc. 28 Cramond Road South Edinburgh EH4 6AB Agent’s Name And Address: J Smart + Co (Contractors) Plc. 28 Cramond Road South Edinburgh EH4 6AB Expected Method of Decision: Committee Date Registered 5th November 2002 Case Officer: Lynsey Townsend - 0131 529 4279 (FAX 529 3717) Mixed development - offices and residential. 52 units. Front building retains only facade. New tall freestanding block to rear. Proposal for shared entrance to rear with 95 McDonald Road |
If you want to object or comment, write to Alan Henderson, Head of Planning; include your postal address.
Pilrig Residents Association's comments:
We believe both development proposals should be considered together and in the context of intense development activity elsewhere in McDonald Road and across the railway line at Dryden Gait and the former Brown Bros site.
While we generally welcome the proposals,
we would like to offer the following comments (which should be
read as objections, if they are not adequately addressed by
conditions/revisions in the scheme put to the Planning
Committee):
1. permeability: consideration should be given to the
safeguarding of (a) a future cycle path parallel to the railway
line connecting Leith Walk with St Mark's Park and (b) a future
development of the railway embankment as a wildlife corridor
2. drainage: where the proposed developments increase the net
hard surface area, the developers should provide rainwater
storage solutions and comply with latest SUDS provisions; where
this is not possible, they should pay the full costs of providing
increased drainage capacity ALL THE WAY downstream.
3. safety/access: developers must provide a safe - for
pedestrians and cyclists - joint access to McDonald Road (similar
to 02/04035/FUL) and consideration should be given to a
pedestrian/cycle crossing to Dryden Gait
4. cyclists: both developments should provide bike parking at
front of site
5. design flexibility: office units at both sites should to be
designed to allow future easy subdivision into smaller units
6. listed building issue: use of chimney for toilets is highly
unimaginative - developer should be asked to consider alternative
use (passenger/goods lift?); any credible preservation of the
chimney must ensure that it is visually unified vertically
(including where it is integrated into new building). developer
should also propose a legally and practically credible
maintenance scheme for the chimney
7. height: rear unit at 99 McDonald Road is too high and likely
to impact negatively on Rosslyn Crescent
8. traffic: consideration should be given to ask both developers
to contribute to the McDonald Road bus route subsidy until the
route breaks even as part of a green travel plan
We also expect both developments to deploy appropriate building
materials and design solutions of high quality and befitting the
context.
Pilrig Residents Association |