This week’s round-up includes two separate applications to turn empty office blocks into new hotels, in Leith and South Gyle. As well as plans for a new primary school in South Queensferry.
Other new planning applications include a proposal to place a brass plaque outside a Stockbridge church in memory of an Edinburgh Holocaust victim. While, there is also a new application to extend a Territorial Army hall at Colinton Road.
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5. Hall extension
Defence Infrastructure Organisation submitted plans on October 9 for the proposed extension of the existing Air Training Corps (ATC) Hall at the Territorial Army Centre, 301 Colinton Road. The planned extension is on an adjacent vacant landscape area, with a new accessible raised access and building link planned. The extension will include office space, sanitary and storage facilities. In the planning documents, the applicant said: "The proposed discrete massing of the new buildings is subservient to the other surrounding buildings. The modest footprint and height as well as the set back from the ATC Hall frontage line, strongly diminish the impact of the new building. "The link to the ATC hall will be clad with buff bricks and a red brick podium is proposed to reference the brickwork of the nearby existing buildings." | Convery Prenty Shields Architects
6. Plans to turn Leith office block into hotel
A change of use application was submitted by OCPT Propco Limited to turn this office block at 94 Ocean Drive into a new 146-bedroom hotel with associated ancillary uses such as dining area, lounge and co-working area. The Ocean Point block is nine-storeys high and tower over Ocean Terminal and Leith Docks. The applicant said in the planning documents: "It is considered that the building is a suitable location for hotel use as the site is highly accessible being immediately adjacent to the recently completed extended tram route from Edinburgh airport to Newhaven. The office building has long been in existence and was first developed as part of an originally master planned area of the waterfront. However, the office failed to become established, being a peripheral office location and which could not attract long term occupiers. The vacant building currently detracts from the surrounding area which is growing and steadily being developed for new uses. A new hotel use would create economic benefit through reuse of the building in terms of construction jobs and investment and then the ongoing economic benefit the local area through the introduction of visitors using local services and facilities and the hotel." | Google Maps
7. Convert social club into six serviced apartments
Ziydin Properties Limited submitted plans on October 20 for the conversion of the former Edinburgh City Social Club to six serviced apartments, at 7 Baxter’s Place, Edinburgh, just down from the Playhouse. Works which commenced on February 3, 2025, were all internal and did not require planning permission or listed building consent. Only two of the six apartments proposed are completed and operational. The application site comprises the first, second, and one half of the third, fourth and attic levels of two former Georgian townhouses. Three of the units proposed will provide two bedrooms and three will provide one bedroom. A reception and check in-out area will also be provided at the entrance level which will be manned at all times 24/7. The said reception and check in-out area will be provided with toilet and refreshment facilities to facilitate such use – that addressing a criticism associated with an application for the same proposal submitted and subsequently refused. | Google Maps