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Caltongate (now known as New Waverley Square) is the largest city centre redevelopment project in Edinburgh since the 18th century. [1] First proposed in 2005, it took 9 years to be given the go-ahead by Edinburgh Council, [2] after disruption caused by the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
Planning Aid for Scotland is an independent charity which has been established to help people with the planning application system in Scotland by providing free advice on planning for individuals and community groups who require to submit a planning application.
Today Edinburgh's council remains headed by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, with six Bailies appointed by the council at large. Many of Edinburgh council ceremonies and traditions date back to the days of the Edinburgh Corporation, such as the Edinburgh Ceremony of the Keys, where the Lord Provost symbolically hands the keys to the City of ...
In December 2019, Lothian Leisure Development and NEC Group published a proposal to build a large capacity music venue and conference space in the city. [2] The location of the original proposal for an 'Edinburgh Arena', which would also include a conference centre, retail and leisure space, a cinema and two hotels, was a 30-acre site in greenbelt land near the Edinburgh City Bypass in Loanhead.
The charity claimed the development would "detract from the historic building's character, greatly diminishing its special interest and status as the focal point of the east end of Edinburgh's New Town plan". [12] They lodged a formal planning complaint with the Council over the Dunard Centre's "excessive scale and massing". [12]
In October 2019 construction commenced on the next phase of the Edinburgh Park development by Parabola. The first phase of the Dixon Jones 48 acre mixed use masterplan for Parabola at Edinburgh Park was approved by Edinburgh Council in September 2018. The detailed application included seven office buildings amounting to over one million square feet of grade A commercial space, leisure and ...
In March 2023 the City of Edinburgh Council planning committee voted to remove the contentious plaque [5] but the council later explained that as the owners they would not do this. [6] and that the vote was a technicality about planning permission.
Tie Ltd. (previously Transport Initiatives Edinburgh Ltd.) was a Scottish company which project-managed large-scale transport projects on behalf of the City of Edinburgh Council, which also owned it. The company was active between May 2002 and August 2011.