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We are advised today that City of Edinburgh Council have plans in place to undertake carriageway resurfacing works along Minto Street, Mayfield Gardens and Craigmillar Park next month. See this location map: Roadworks Minto Craigmillar Park Q4 2026 plus

The works will also include traffic signal upgrades in places, gully units replaced, traffic islands removed, and certain sections of footway reconstructed at pedestrian crossing points.

Phase 1 will be the civil works which include gully renewals, traffic signal upgrades, and footway reconstruction works. Phase 1 will start on 5 October and continue up until 25 November after which works will stop for the Christmas Embargo. The works for Phase 1 will then recommence on Monday, 11 January, and continue until complete.

Phase 2 will be the carriageway resurfacing works which will commence in January 2027 once Phase 1 is complete.

All works will be undertaken between 0700 and 1900 hours, Monday to Friday. The works will start at the north end at Minto Street and continue south in phases until all works are complete. Temporary traffic lights and lane closures will be used to facilitate the majority of the works, with road closures in place as required.

A works notification letter will be distributed to residents and businesses next week outlining details of the works.

A link to ‘ Southside 2040 ’ is here: Southside CC Local Place Plan Sep 2026

Southside 2040 is presented as input to the City Council’s ‘City Plan 2040’. It also sets out surveyed community priorities for the Southside area.

“ The plan sets out a vision for Southside in 2040, built on what we take to be the forces that will shape the area over the coming years: the University’s use of its land, the affordability of housing and the pressure from student accommodation and short-term letting, adaptation to a changing climate, a visitor economy that should sustain the community rather than displace it, and Southside’s position as a route through the city as well as a place to live.

Five themes follow from it: homes for a settled community; a liveable, well-connected neighbourhood; a greener, climate-ready Southside; a living community and local culture; and a real community voice with the University. Dumbiedykes, where these play out differently, is read through all five in a chapter of its own. Under those themes the plan sets out 31 planning proposals, gathered in a single schedule at section 7, and records 39 community priorities, listed together at section 8.

Representations on the content of the proposed plan should be sent to Southside Community Council by email to lpp@sccedinburgh.org.uk . They should reach us by Tuesday 13 October , which is 28 days from the date of this notice.

Find out more at http://www.sccedinburgh.org.uk/lpp

A stream of Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders (TTROPs) is emerging to accommodate the Scottish Power Energy Networks major cabling programme from Whitehouse Loan to King's Buildings and beyond. View the detail of the restrictions on this Council site. You can download the information and there is a direct contact point to a named Council Officer to accommodate your further queries. https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/roads-pavements/view-comment-traffic-orders-new/2

Update from the Grange Association: #24 bus diversion along Kilgraston Road; Works along South Lauder Road, into Lauder Road. Grange Road to complete in approx two weeks time; Beaufort Road to follow. Blackford Road to complete in approx one week's time. Kilgraston Road underway. Marchmont Road and Findhorn Place about to commence.

From the Agenda papers for the 11 September Traffic Regulation Orders Sub-Committee, view the Objection Report and the amended proposals for the introduction of Controlled Parking Zone S8 (Existing B1 Priority Parking Area). Note the removal of proposed restrictions at the retail outlets on Blackford Avenue.

https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=645&MId=8240&Ver=4

"Should Committee approve the proposals, the legal process to introduce a new CPZ to replace the existing B1 Priority Parking Area will be finalised, with the Order formally being “Made”. All objectors to the relevant TRO will be contacted to advise them of the Council’s decision."

"Further engagement with Ward Councillors will take place after twelve months of operation to discuss any migration or displacement issues and results of monitoring surveys."

From the Agenda papers for the 10 September Transport & Environment Committee, view the Report on 'Edinburgh Visitor Levy: New Projects'. Read about the criteria for project selection and the Visitor Levy Approved Expenditure programmes. Note the commitment to Public Realm Improvement in the City Centre.

https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=136&MId=8122&Ver=4

We are advised by the Council’s Place Directorate of an approach by United Kingdom Research & Innovation to upgrade the car park at the Royal Observatory. If approved, this will see them taking a lease of an area of land from the Council which is currently part of the common good land estate.

Under section 104 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015, the Council is required to publish details of any proposed disposal or change of use in respect of property held as part of the Common Good register and to invite representations from community councils, community bodies and members of the public.

A public consultation in that regard, with a 28 October closing date, is now live at https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/cg/royal-observatory/

View the papers going to the 10 Sep Transport & Environment Committee here, including a short summary: Agenda for Transport and Environment Committee on Thursday, 10th September, 2026, 10.00 am – Modern Council

Further information on the project can be found at www.edinburgh.gov.uk/futuretrams .

From our friends at the Grange Association: Two major transmission cable projects are underway locally, led by Scottish Power Energy Networks (SPEN).

Works in Relugas Road will last for one month, then move on to Lauder Road, South Lauder Road and Dick Place. Works in Grange Road and Blackford Road are anticipated to continue until 4 September. Works in Kilgraston Road (with 2-way traffic lights) are expected to complete around 18 September. Beaufort Road works are complete and now continue east along Grange Road, with rolling road junction closures.