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A new illuminated Dough Club fascia and projecting sign is proposed at 11 St Patrick Square to refresh the shopfront. https://city-scope.co.uk/25/06519/ADV

January 24, 2026 at 9:35 AM

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A bronze plaque commemorating Frederick Douglass is proposed at 29A Waterloo Place, enhancing the building's historical significance. https://city-scope.co.uk/26/00212/LBC

January 24, 2026 at 9:40 AM

Harry Willliams

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Hoping these now sound a lot more natural and reduce the unnecessary fluff

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A non-material variation is proposed at Site 100 Metres North East Of 19 Turnhouse Road Cammo, adding two wildflower seed mixes and mown grass paths. https://city-scope.co.uk/19/05514/VAR7

January 22, 2026 at 11:02 AM

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January 19, 2026 at 10:56 AM

Harry Willliams

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🚨Edinburgh Development Summary 2026 Mapped!

I have updated my Google Earth map for the Edinburgh Dev summary 2026 created by Kenspekle on SkyScraper City once again.

You can zoom around the city using the link below. ⏬(Best on a desktop)

www.city-scope.co.uk/dev-summary-26

January 11, 2026 at 4:09 PM

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SpokesLothian

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#Edinburgh #Cycling developments 2026 (?)

Our thoughts--> www.spokes.org.uk/2026/01/2025...

🤔 #MainRoad protected lanes
🤔 #Tram
🤔 #PrincesStreet
🤔 #BraidEstate
🤔 Plans: #CCWEL extension, #LothianRoad
🤔 #DemandManagement: #TrafficFilters #charging
🤔 #BusLanes
🤔 Use of officer time
... and much more

Start of Spokes article...

2025–>2026 : What for Edinburgh Cycling Policy & Action?

Will 2026 see Edinburgh City‘s new ‘Primary Cycle Network’ definition start to turn from policy into reality? And what of the City’s hugely ambitious 30% by 2030 traffic-reduction aims? What other decisions or actions may we see in the coming year?

Picture of a bollarded route due to be upgraded in 2026 as part of the main-road 'Primary Cycle Network'

Picture of Foot of Walk to Dock Street under construction - opening in 2026

Huge amounts of precious time having to be spent by officers in reassuring & re-reassuring worried councillors on issues where evidence is already pretty solid...

In conclusion, a random thought

Looking back on the stories above, one has to be struck by the huge amount of precious officer time that is devoted to handling the concerns of councillors worried by objections which in the end often prove either irrelevant or largely unfounded. Time which could be spent far more productively. Here are some examples…

There is no better example than the saga of the Travelling Safely experimental Orders and the role of the TRO subcommittee (see ‘2025’ near the start of this article), resulting in additional meetings and literally hundreds of pages of reports [e.g. this 682-page download for their third meeting covering much of the same ground]
The Braid Estate story (see above) is another – huge amounts of time in meetings, massive reports, preparation of traffic orders, finding contractors, abortive costs – all in aid of a messy compromise experiment, unwanted by many, and which may now not happen
Most recently, the decision of TRO Sub to postpone a decision on whether to allow east-bound cycling in Rose Street, where westbound has been legal for decades. Officers now have to prepare a report on issues such as whether bikes may collide with cafe tables or get through any roadworks that might happen, even though the existing west-bound cycling works perfectly well.

Is there a solution to this tragic time-wasting, delaying projects which are far more safety and environmentally significant? Certainly, objections must be heard, and councillors must interrogate officers. Some objections do have real substance. But when evidence is clear, and plainly laid out by officers when questioned at Committee (as, largely, in the above examples) surely there must be a mechanism for making councillors think twice. Is yet another investigation, more reports, more meetings, mor…

January 3, 2026 at 6:03 PM

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📍 110 Princes Street New Town Edinburgh EH2 3AA
👉 New fascia and small projecting signs added to ground-floor frontage of 110 Princes St for a Class 3 eatery, using illuminated script over existing shopfront. .
⚖ Scale: 2/10
📂 Ref: 25/06154/ADV
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/264x5wso

December 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM

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📍 Police Scotland, Portobello Police Station 118 Portobello High Street Portobello West Edinburgh EH15 1AL
👉 Former Portobello Police Station may shift to a community hub with shared offices, event space, art studios, gallery and fl…
⚖ Scale: 3/10
📂 Ref: 25/06203/FUL
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/24deej3x

December 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM

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📍 Site 60 Metres South Of 199 Fountainbridge Tollcross Edinburgh
👉 Mixed-use hotel complex at Fountainbridge with short/long-stay rooms, student beds, co-working, events spaces, gym, restaurant, caf, rooftop bar and servicing access…
⚖ Scale: 8/10
📂 Ref: 25/06023/PAN
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/28q944e2

November 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM

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📍 Cameron Toll Shopping Centre 6 Lady Road Mayfield Edinburgh
👉 Masterplan for Cameron Toll overhaul with new homes, student and later-living blocks, hotel, shops, offices, leisure spaces and landscaped public realm. .
⚖ Scale: 9/10
📂 Ref: 25/06138/PAN
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/263p4m8v

November 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM

Harry Willliams

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*Sugo coming to George Street!

Edinburgh Planning Updates @ediplanningupdates.bsky.social · Nov 27

📍 80B George Street New Town Edinburgh EH2 3BU
👉 Illuminated SUCO fascia letters, matching transom sign, gold window vinyl and slim projecting sign proposed for George St frontage. .
⚖ Scale: 2/10
📂 Ref: 25/06187/ADV
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/255kadom

#PlanningUpdates #Edinburgh

November 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM

Harry Willliams

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Looks like some much needed work is planned to improve the pedestrian facilities around new town next year.

November 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM

Harry Willliams

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A pretty grim planning app: the owners of the old Leith Walk railway viaduct want to keep using this historic structure as a giant billboard for even longer.

How about investing in the site and rehabilitating it instead of squeezing more ads out of it?

www.city-scope.co.uk/25/06076/ADV

November 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM

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SpokesLothian

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#Tram consultation - Spokes submission

--> www.spokes.org.uk/wp-content/u...

🙋 You have till midnight Monday for your own response!
HERE--> consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/tram-nor...

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Intro...

Tram, Granton to Bioquarter consultation
Spokes Planning Group response, November 2025
1. Introduction
Spokes has the objective of promoting cycling as part of an overall sustainable transport and access
strategy. As such, we support a growing tram system for Edinburgh, provided cycling is well catered for in
the project design and operation.
The aim of the tram is to reduce car traffic, and to head off potential traffic growth in development areas
such as Granton and the Bioquarter. If successful, this is a huge benefit to walking and cycling, as well as its
benefits in terms of congestion, public health and climate. However, the project should be accompanied
by complementary measures to further encourage use of public transport and active travel, for example
bus gates, traffic filters, and, notably, congestion charging. It is well established that traffic reduction is best
achieved by a carrot/stick combination.
The tram project must support and promote active travel as a whole, and cycling in particular, and must not
introduce additional dangers without effective mitigation. The Council has ambitious targets to increase
cycle use, much of which must come from novice and inexperienced cyclists, as well as visitors and locals
using an expanding bike hire scheme. As such it is essential that there is a safe, comprehensive and
connected bike network of segregated bike lanes and low-traffic areas, easy and safe to use by anybody,
and with any kind of cycles - including cargobikes, adapted bikes, hire bikes, etc.
Introducing the tram should be seen and planned from the outset as an integrated sustainable transport
place making project, not a tram-only project into which cycling and walking have to be slotted in once all
the tramline decisions are taken as happened with tramline 1 and to a considerable (though lesser) extent
in the Newhaven extension.

The Bridges corridor is hugely problematic..

8. City Centre to Bioquarter
Top issues
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The section through North and South Bridges is of extreme concern to Spokes, with no cycle provision, new tramlines and continued through traffic on a road where width is at a premium. This is making cycling provision far worse than in the current bus lanes. The project should include a bus gate / modal filter (as was planned, though never implemented, as part of the Spaces for People proposals ) potentially single track sections (like at Roseburn) and fully segregated cycle provision, or consideration to tram tracks on one side of the road and a bidirectional bike path on the other. For the reasons in the following two bullet points, many cyclists will continue to use this corridor - our above section on Bikes and Tramlines notes that Princes Street as a good example of this, with many choosing not to use the quieter George Street when it is less direct or lacks desired destinations. Thus cycling conditions must be safe.
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Whilst alternative north-south routes for cycles are proposed in the consultation, these would not suit all journeys, with many cyclists using the Bridges to travel between South Edinburgh and Leith given the more suitable gradient and directness than the Mound. And whilst there is a brief reference to the proposed Meadows to George Street route on the west side of the Bridges, there is no reference to the east side, where the Mobility Plan suggests a new active travel bridge connecting from the Old Town to Leith Walk. Such projects must be an integral part of the tram project provision including during the construction phase, also providing a permanent legacy of improved provision once finished.
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The Bridges corridor is a major residential, shopping and destinations location, and many cyclists use it for that reason; indeed many live along or just off the corridor. Routes via the Mound or Pleasance are irrelevant as alternatives for these categories of user.…

linking the North Ed Network to the new canal path without descending and re-ascending - a transformative opportunity - diagram.

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Connecting Roseburn to the new Canal link path - The sketch below shows a possible layout for this crucial linkage. The yellow dotted line shows a ramp down to Russell Road, but this is possibly optional if it would cause engineering difficulties, given that most people will stay at high level, whilst those needing to descend or ascend could do so at Roseburn or at the nearby ramp to the new canal path. Finally, we understand that earlier discussions with Network Rail did not meet objections to a bridge provided that all necessary clearances are achieved.

Picture of single-track shopping-street tram in Amsterdam

November 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM

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Critical Safety Issues for 🚲👩‍🦼🚶

👍 Superb new Guidance from #govuk @ategov.bsky.social

--> www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Cover page of the new Guidance

Active Travel England

Guidance
Critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling

Published 6 November 2025

What is a critical safety issue?

A critical safety issue is defined as a street layout or condition that is associated with an increased risk of collisions for people walking, wheeling or cycling.

Active Travel England’s route check tool identifies 16 critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling.

This guidance explains each of the issues with illustrations and provides links to relevant guidance and key evidence.

You can use this guidance with the route check tool to identify and remove these risks.

This will help reduce the risks of collisions for people walking, wheeling or cycling.

The recommendation to focus on identifying and removing critical issues was introduced nationally in Local Transport Note 1/20 for cycling and regionally through approaches such as London’s Healthy Streets check and Greater Manchester’s Streets for All check.

November 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM

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SpokesLothian

@spokes.org.uk

#RailwayForEveryone #ScotRail
November update (yellow=recent)

-> scotlandsrailway.com/about-us/rfe

Info: john.lauder@networkrail.co.uk

@edi.bike @transform.scot @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social @railfuture.bsky.social @sw20.info @networkrailscot.bsky.social @harryjwilliams.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social

rail accessibility schemes in Edinburgh & surroundings

Dunbar station developments
A new link from Platform 2 to new housing is under construction led by East Lothian Council. It is hoped that work inside the station boundary can delivered in 2025/26. In addition, a new pedestrian and wheeling route from Deer Park housing estate and Spott Road to Platform 1 and station house is under consideration.
Bathgate
Potential to improve Pillar1 with a walking/wheeling link. Possibility of funding for a feasibility study. With support from SRT colleagues. Further discussion with West Lothian Council.
Longniddry
Positive discussions with East Lothian Council, land agent and housing developer on potential improvement to Pillar1 with walking/wheeling link to new housing and to the existing village. NRS Sponsor liaising with East Lothian Council. With support from SRT colleagues.
Brunstane Station Bridge
Review of this bridge, which carries National Cycle Network route 1, being led by Sustrans and City of Edinburgh Council. Surveyors on-site to inform detailed designs. Awaiting designs.
Edinburgh: Southeast Wedge
Positive discussions r.e. new entrance to Shawfair.
Curriehill
Ongoing discussions with City of EdinburghCouncil&Heriot Watt University for a mixed-use path from Riccarton Campus to Station. Plans withCity of Edinburgh and SRT improving immediate station environment.
Winchburgh
Proposal for new station submitted for planning permission by Network Rail Scotland. Liaison with planning team for an accessible station meeting Railway for Everyone recommendations.
Borders Line: future investment opportunities
Liaison with Network Rail sponsors team reviewing opportunities for improving accessibility as an output of future investment opportunities: particular focus on stations at Newcraighall, Shawfair, Galashiels and Tweedbank.
Falkirk Grahamston – AfA and public realm
Station selected for Access for All (AfA) feasibility study funding. AfA is led by NRS Sponsor.

rail accessibility schemes in Fife & surroundings

Abernethy under-bridge
Perth & Kinross Countryside Trust, acting for Perth & Kinross Council, collaborating with the Asset Protection Team (AsPro) on an active travel link shadowing the line.
Manor Powis roundabout
A break in the national cycle network could be overcome with access to our land for an off-road path. We are positive on assisting this development. Liaising with Stirling and Clackmannanshire councils.
Fife stations: Burntisland, Cardenden, Cowdenbeath, Kinghorn, Glenrothes with Thornton, and Lochgelly,
Site visits and report shared with Fife Council on accessibility at stations in Fife that are potentially affected by future investment opportunities. Meeting with local MP. Living Streets on site in Cardenden conducting street audits.
Newburgh Station
Further discussions on campaigns by community group for new station at Newburgh.
Leuchars station
Report published.
Edinburgh Gateway
Meetings with City of Edinburgh Council to discuss rail and planning. Focus on housing development at Edinburgh Gateway.

cover page of Novemember report, pictures of bike, wheelchair, guide dog, etc at station

How passengers get to stations

While car parking and drop-off remain important, particularly in very rural locations, it's not the dominant mode of travel to stations.

We also now better understand how passengers get to the station. Our colleagues in ScotRail are surveying passengers three times a year, and from their work we can now see that walking is the most popular way that people get to rail stations.
Walk/wheel 36%
car 26%
bus 13%
cycle 7%
other 17%

November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM

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Edinburgh Planning Updates

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📍 Land 30 Metres South Of 26 Tolbooth Wynd North Leith Edinburgh
👉 Plinth and under-croft parking cleared, substation shifted, stairs repaired; site re-worked for 49 terraced houses and flats with new landscaped grounds. .
⚖ Scale: 7/10
📂 Ref: 25/05731/FUL
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/27efdlls

November 1, 2025 at 9:33 AM

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Leith Feeder Ride

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You can see them on the app as of today 👇

October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM

Harry Willliams

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Is this a joke? -- this is the only part of the West Edinburgh link ("phase 1") that will take ~ 8 months to construct (The red section)....

October 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM

Harry Willliams

@harryjwilliams.bsky.social

Edinburgh’s planning portal is down, you can still view all planning applications from 2025 here😉:
www.city-scope.co.uk

City Scope

Explore modern insights into planning applications across Scotland.

www.city-scope.co.uk

October 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM

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Edinburgh Planning Updates

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📍 Land 288 Metres Southwest Of 10 Builyeon Road Echline South Queensferry
👉 New two-stream primary and 128-place nursery on landscaped site, creating modern learning spaces and play areas for roughly 420 pupils. .
⚖ Scale: 7/10
📂 Ref: 25/05325/AMC
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/25vpyuo3