This week’s round-up, the first of the New Year and the first since the festive break, includes plans for a new hotel in the New Town, and a new coffee shop in the city centre.
As well as plans to erect a new memorial statue in Princes Street Gardens, a new takeaway in Gorgie, a new cadet training hall, and a planned new yoga studio.
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5. Former shop set to become new cafe/ takeaway
Ahmet Murat Ozkara has submitted an application for a change of use to Class 3 (Food & Drink) with cooking, including internal alterations and ventilation flue, at 367 Broomhouse Road, opposite the site where the Sighthill flats once stood. The plans include indoor seating for 12 customers, a serving area, a kitchen, a customer toilet, and a large storage area at the rear in a proposed single storey extension. It is proposed to open the new business between 8am and 10pm. The business will operate as a small, community-serving restaurant/café offering breakfast, grilled items, burgers, wraps, pasta dishes, desserts and Turkish home-style dishes. The proposed cooking facilities include a fryer, grill, hotplate and standard oven. In the planning documents, the applicant said: "The premises have been vacant for over seven years, and repeated attempts to lease the property have failed due to lack of suitable permitted uses. A viable Class 3 business will deliver significant community benefit, activate an inactive frontage, improve natural surveillance, and contribute to the 20- minute neighbourhood objectives of City Plan 2030. | Google Maps
6. Demolition to make way for new hotel
Plans have been lodged to demolish Centrum House in Edinburgh's New Town to make way for a new hotel. The local community will now be consulted over the plans by Evans Dakota Hotels Limited to demolish Centrum House at Dundas Street and build a new hotel. This follows the council’s planning department approving the applicant’s proposal of application notice on Tuesday, January 6. Few details of the proposed hotel have been revealed as yet, other than it would have a restaurant and bar. With more details set to be revealed at the forthcoming community consultation events. The applicant has now notified local councillors, the local MP, local MSP, and New Town and Broughton Community Council of its proposals for 108-114 and 116 Dundas Street, on the corner of Fettes Row/ St Vincent Place. The community consultation events are to be held at Stockbridge Parish Church on Wednesday, January 21 and Wednesday, February 19, from 4pm-7pm both days, allowing locals to learn more about the plans. | Google Maps
7. New yoga studio
URBN Fitness Ltd has submitted to turn a former salon in the New Town into a new yoga studio. The proposals for the new 'Tribe' studio include alterations to the ground floor shop unit to form a yoga/pilates studio and reception, as well as associated minor external alterations including new signage. The plans show a large reception area at the front of the currently empty unit at 26 Howe Street, as well as changing facilities, toilets, and a large pilates studio at the rear. | Google Maps
8. Turn doctor's surgery into flats
Ms Roslyn Tumiotto has submitted a planning application to the council for a change of use from the existing doctor's surgery, Hermitage Medical Practice at 5 Hermitage Terrace, to private residential. The plans include the sub-division of the property to restore the original layout, creating a self-contained flat on the ground floor of number 5, and a three-storey home occupying the entirety of number. 6 There would also be internal alterations to return the fragmented layout for residential use, and altering the roof of the non-original extension to the rear of the property. No works will be visible from the front of the property. | Google Maps