As well as the hospital’s plans, proposals have also been submitted for a private play area in Riccarton, changes to a community building at Saughtonhall, a new narrow three-storey townhouse in Corstorphine and a golf pod in Barnton.
There was also plans submitted to turn a Morningside takeaway into a new restaurant, proposals for a city centre office to become a new guest house, a new cafe in Leith, and a proposal to install a life-saving defibrillator machine outside the Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood.
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5. Life-saver at Parliament
The Scottish Parliament Corporate team has applied for planning permission to place a life-saving defibrillator machine outside the home of Scottish politics at Holyrood. If approved, the new public access defibrillator and cabinet would be located within the external landscape grounds of the Scottish Parliament, next to the existing totem signage outside the main public exit, pictured above. | Google Maps
6. Cafe to become new restaurant under plans
Businessman Keith Pham, who runs many Edinburgh restaurants, including Vietnamese restaurant Saigon Memoire in the city centre, has applied for a change of use permission to turn this cafe in Morningside into a new restaurant. The plans show that if the change is approved, the existing kitchen facility and ventilation system at 324 Morningside Road would be utilised, while the ventilation duct work is routed up an existing internal chimney terminating at roof level. In the planning documents, the applicant said: "There are no proposed changes to the appearance of the property. It is our assessment that the proposed change of use to a class 3 restaurant will not affect appearance or character of the conservation area." | Google Maps
7. Breathing Soul Fire into Leith unit
Plans have been submitted to turn a street level office space in Leith into a new cafe. The desk and space hire unit at 12 Henderson Street would become the Soul Fire Coffee Shop if the proposals are approved. The plans will include new louvres for a new extraction fan, a new entrance door and new signage if the change of use is given approval. | HAAR
8. Plans to turn city centre office into a guest house
Mzee Properties Limited have submitted plans to turn an office building at Thistle Street into a guest house. The proposal is for a small "high quality" guest house which would have 13 double rooms with a maximum of 26 guests. The existing entrance on Thistle Street would be the only access in use with the proposed new door onto Thistle Street North East Lane being for emergency fire escape only. Check in and out would be between 8am and 10pm. All bookings would be verified advance online reservations and no party bookings would be taken. The main change to the exterior of the property would be repainting the frontage to a sandstone colour more in line with neighbouring properties. The existing rear garage door would be removed and replaced by glazed timber infill screen painted white. The existing timber windows will be retained and repaired and repainted as required. The lower ground floor garage would be converted into a dining area. Both the upper ground floor and first floor would see two office rooms replaced by three rooms on each level. Some partition walls will be removed on the second floor in order to provide suitable accommodation, and the open plan third floor will be sub divided into three separate rooms with the upper part seeing the creation of an additional level to accommodate two more rooms. | Google Maps