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GPCC Member, Sally Griffiths has reviewed the Council’s announced spending plans for 2026/27 on transport infrastructure , including carriageways and footways, road structures and road safety. They are deeply detailed, with inter-dependencies and project ‘crossovers’ meaning there is no guarantee of seamless execution and delivery to timeline. One of the imperatives is the intended full re-surfacing of Craigmillar Park to accommodate the 2 July 2027 Tour de France event. There will be significant disruption.

Here are some other projects indicated for the GPCC area: Carriageway treatment at: McLaren Road, Ventnor Terrace, Strathfillan Road, Seton Place, Clearburn Crescent, Suffolk Road. Mentone Gardens, West Savile Road, East Mayfield, West Mayfield, Maurice Place: Footway treatment at: Ratcliffe Terrace, Grange Crescent.

In another development, the Council looks to be moving towards the provision of better communication and information on the prospective delivery of road and pavement works in future years. All would be ‘subject to change’, of course, but knowing that a problem area is at least ‘in the pipeline’ would be a plus.

Important items on planned future spend on identified carriageways and footways, road safety improvements and local traffic improvements and on delivery in 2025/26. Report on planned improvements in communicating road and pavement works and Traffic Regulation Orders. Go to City Council Committee Work on the front page menu.

Purpose-Build Student Accommodation. This application has been Granted with Legal Agreement and subject to recommended conditions. See Planning & Place .

The AGM will take place on Wednesday, 20 May . All GPCC meetings are open to the public to attend and observe. If you wish to place an item on the Agenda, give the details to the Secretary by 4 May. If you wish to attend the meeting itself, to allow us to manage room space, please contact the Secretary.

This is currently Priority Parking Area B1. Look for possible Zone S8 Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) at the 2 June City Council TRO Sub-Committee. Note this : The TRO Sub-Committee Agenda will be published on 26 May. Search for the Sub-Committee by way of ‘Edinburgh Council Committee Meetings’. If Zone 8 is listed and your Residents Association or Group wishes to make a representation to the Committee, you have until 1 June to do so (6 days). Make your representation via a Ward Councillor on the Committee. Search for ‘Edinburgh Traffic Regulation Orders Sub-Committee – contact details’ or use this link: https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/mgCommitteeDetails.aspx?ID=645

At the Transport & Environment Committee 2 April 2026 : Note the scheduled Reports on 1) Transport Capital Investment Programme – Annual Update, including Road Safety Delivery Plan / Local Traffic Improvement Delivery Plan / Roads and Infrastructure Investment Programme. 2) Cycle Hire Update. 3) Communicating Road and Pavement Improvements.

Report 3) is drawn from a submission to Full Council by Cllr. Cuthbert on 19 March 2026, by way of Item 8.1 Motion – Publication of Rolling Ward-Level Roads Maintenance Schedule: See here: Notice of meeting and agenda

Objection submitted by GPCC on 6 March. See Planning and Place for detail.

Planning Application 26/00495/CLP opened 10 Feb, closed for comments 3 Mar, awaiting assessment. The developer's proposal is to demolish the Causewayside Lads Building structure. The CLP code is a permission request to confirm that a proposed use of development does not require planning permission to be applied for. Following the DPEA dismissal of the appeal against the PBSA refusal (see 17 Feb below), this application is a technical challenge to the 1 Dec 2025 Planning Department refusal on demolition (25/05325/CLP). The challenge holds that the demolition proposal is a lawful development. The issue of a Building Preservation Notice on the building is still extant.

TROs for the most part take us by surprise. They go well beyond temporary road works. TROs govern the city’s circulation system: road closures, road repairs, new one-ways, bus gates, vehicle use, parking restrictions, roadway spaces for communal bins, bike parking, experimental changes, and so on. As legal notices, TROs have to be advertised as proposed orders and as made orders. You want to keep an eye on them.

The City Council uses The Scotsman as its official publication of record for these statutory notices. It’s not light reading, but it’s official.

The Council website lets you view or comment on Traffic Orders here:

View or comment on traffic orders – The City of Edinburgh Council

The map-based extension to the site page shows ‘Active Consultations’. In each case, you can view the proposal consultation documents (top of page) and respond to the consultation (bottom of page). It’s a very good facility though you need a little patience to go through it.

The ‘Don’t get caught unawares’ reference point is the excellent public agency TellmeScotland portal, hosting public notices on traffic, licensing, planning, elected councillor ward surgeries and other general items. You can search in relation to your postcode and – important option – you can sign-up for alerts. Worth doing to avoid sudden surprises. Here is the link: tellmescotland

The formal Scot Gov guide to Road Orders is through Transport Scotland, here: https://www.transport.gov.scot/transport-network/roads/road-orders-and-records-of-determination/