Planning Comments
A searchable archive of the Association’s comments on and responses to various planning applications and consultations.
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Temporary festivals accepted, but civic space pressures require tighter safeguards -
Festival role recognised, but cumulative civic space impacts require controls.
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Festival use accepted, but stronger safeguards needed for The Meadows.
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Support Fringe venue, but stronger tree and landscape safeguards needed.
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World Heritage proposals need stronger evidence, heritage assessment, and visual justification
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Improved design, but objections remain over scale, roofscape, and conservation impact
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Improved scheme, but concerns remain over scale, demolition, and design quality
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World Heritage proposals require evidence, sensitivity, and least-impact design.
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Insufficient heritage and visual evidence prevents policy-compliant assessment of proposal.
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Scaffold advert harms Princes Street’s historic character and coherence
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Objects to conversion harming heritage, residential use, community balance
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Positive shift, but design quality and place-making remain weak
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Supports continued cultural use with management of residential impacts and continued improvement
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Opposes apart-hotel; risks interiors, heritage integrity, and mixed-use balance.
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Design misalignment undermines streetscape; redevelopment principle supported