Edinburgh Sucks! | Planning breach their own regulations

City Council

Planning breach their own regulations

By The Basa ⋅ June 2, 2005 ⋅

The Architectural Communication's Worker Despite a storm of protest from residents, representations from their local councillor Fred Mackinosh and MSP Mike Pringle, locals around the Cameron Toll area are in a fury because of the planning department’s approval to demolish the former St. Margaret’s school to build 32 flats in two blocks on the Craigmillar Park site.

“Local residents, backed by the local councillor, had shown that this planning application was against numerous council planning guidelines on the preservation of historic buildings.

“The two Victorian villas are at a key gateway to the city and should be preserved in any development of the old St Margaret’s School site.

“As planning guidelines have been clearly breached, I have now asked Scottish ministers and Historic Scotland to intervene and prevent the destruction of Edinburgh’s built heritage.”

This news confirms an anonymous email EdinburghSucks.com received three weeks ago (around the time the plans were passed by ‘development quality committee councillors’) asking us to keep an eye on the project and telling us to ‘follow the money’ with the obvious inference that a bung was involved.

We will be following with great interest this project through the appeals process. Planning committee member Ken Harrold, as a former communications worker used his obvious relative experience by saying “The buildings that are already there are connected together by a 1960s building and I don’t think that they were of particular merit.” – Yeah, and you have the background to know that!

We would also ask the anonymous person to contact us again if they have more information they have not shared with us.