Tag: Rolling Update

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.

L&DCC have contacted the CEC Head of Service, Roads & Infrastructure to request urgent inspection and remedial action on worn-out carriageway markings along the A701 arterial corridor from Howden Hall Road, through Liberton Brae, Liberton Road, Craigmillar Park to Minto Street.

27 Aug : An immediate response from the Council’s Road Operations Unit acknowledges this city-wide problem. A rolling road marking reinstatement programme is planned. However, severe fiscal constraints mean this will possibly be a five -year project. The early focus will be on the A90, Queensferry Road and A8 corridor. That said, Minto Street. Craigmillar Park, a section of Liberton Brae and a section of Howden Hall Road will be part of the 2026/27 capital resurfacing (and re-marking) programme.

The Council's web page on Roads and Pavements is here:

https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/roads-pavements

You can report across an array of problems here:

https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/report-problem-road

Use the FixMyStreet site to report a local problem:

https://www.fixmystreet.com/reports/Edinburgh?zoom=4&lat=55.91647&lon=-3.26114

We’ve been approached by Brity First Aid Training ( https://brity.co.uk ) to promote their work in putting together a free page showing defibrillators in and around the Grange Prestonfield area. This page also showcases local NHS and dental service providers.

Brity ® provides comprehensive First Aid Training across the UK, in partnership with St John Ambulance and British Red Cross, on-site in the workplace and HSE-aligned.

Here is the link to the Grange Prestonfield first aid page: https://brity.co.uk/communities/grange-prestonfield