The Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust (ELGT) has submitted plans for a proposed café is to sit alongside wider improvement and enhancement works to the former play area at West Pilton Park. Planning permission was previously obtained in December last year for park-wide enhancements, including reference to a future café which is now the subject of this application. Although the ELGT is the applicant, it acts on behalf of the project funder The Mushroom Trust. If approved, the single storey cafe would have a pitched roof and be operated by catering social enterprise Scran Academy. The public toilets part of the project will be managed by the City of Edinburgh Council. A growers’ area associated with the project would come under the stewardship of an established local growers group, Fresh Start.placeholder image
The Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust (ELGT) has submitted plans for a proposed café is to sit alongside wider improvement and enhancement works to the former play area at West Pilton Park. Planning permission was previously obtained in December last year for park-wide enhancements, including reference to a future café which is now the subject of this application. Although the ELGT is the applicant, it acts on behalf of the project funder The Mushroom Trust. If approved, the single storey cafe would have a pitched roof and be operated by catering social enterprise Scran Academy. The public toilets part of the project will be managed by the City of Edinburgh Council. A growers’ area associated with the project would come under the stewardship of an established local growers group, Fresh Start. | Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace

New Edinburgh planning applications round-up includes new green data centre and hotel extension

Kevin Quinn
By Kevin Quinn

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Published 20th Sep 2025, 10:49 GMT

Here is our latest weekly round-up of Edinburgh’s newly submitted planning applications.

Proposals put forward this week include a new cafe in a walled garden in Pilton, a new high-tech green data centre at South Gyle, and plans to turn a Murrayfield hair salon into a new cafe.

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There are also plans to turn a picture framing workshop into a new restaurant, as well as extensions to a hostel in the Old Town and a hotel at Crewe Toll.

See the latest Edinburgh planning applications in detail in our photo gallery below. For the latest public notices from your area, please visit: https://publicnoticeportal.uk/

Francacia & Co has applied for a change of use application with restricted cooking facilities to turn ID hair salon at 3 Murrayfield Place into a new cafe. The plans show a layout change on the shop front to accommodate 20 covers for the new cafe. The current reception area would be removed if the plans are approved, and a customer counter would be placed by the stairs. The 'backwash' area at the rear of the floor would be transformed into a kitchen to prepare food. No external changes are proposed other than a change in signage to signify the new venture.

5. Plans to turn hairdresser's shop into new cafe

Francacia & Co has applied for a change of use application with restricted cooking facilities to turn ID hair salon at 3 Murrayfield Place into a new cafe. The plans show a layout change on the shop front to accommodate 20 covers for the new cafe. The current reception area would be removed if the plans are approved, and a customer counter would be placed by the stairs. The 'backwash' area at the rear of the floor would be transformed into a kitchen to prepare food. No external changes are proposed other than a change in signage to signify the new venture. | Google Maps

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Caroline Freedman applied for a change of use application on September 9 to turn this picture framing workshop into a new restaurant at 8 Antigua Street at the top of Leith Walk. There are no external alterations proposed. The kitchen would be to the rear of the shop floor. New signage is proposed and a possible new paint scheme. In the planning documents, the applicant said: "It is a small unit. The change from retail workshop to restaurant should not lead to any adverse impacts. It would be entirely in keeping with the character of the area. As it is beneath residential properties, the main issue will be protecting residents from cooking smells and noise from the premises. The fact that this unit is lost within so many class 3 (restaurant) uses is detrimental to the viability of the unit as a retail unit, and it would be far more economically beneficial to operate as a class 3 use. The existing use is historic and has only continued as the current occupier has perpetuated a family business over the past century. This is sadly about to end and it is not likely that this would now be seen as a suitable business or retail location. The proposed change of use is the best way forward."

6. New restaurant at picture framing workshop

Caroline Freedman applied for a change of use application on September 9 to turn this picture framing workshop into a new restaurant at 8 Antigua Street at the top of Leith Walk. There are no external alterations proposed. The kitchen would be to the rear of the shop floor. New signage is proposed and a possible new paint scheme. In the planning documents, the applicant said: "It is a small unit. The change from retail workshop to restaurant should not lead to any adverse impacts. It would be entirely in keeping with the character of the area. As it is beneath residential properties, the main issue will be protecting residents from cooking smells and noise from the premises. The fact that this unit is lost within so many class 3 (restaurant) uses is detrimental to the viability of the unit as a retail unit, and it would be far more economically beneficial to operate as a class 3 use. The existing use is historic and has only continued as the current occupier has perpetuated a family business over the past century. This is sadly about to end and it is not likely that this would now be seen as a suitable business or retail location. The proposed change of use is the best way forward." | Google Maps

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