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Time is running out for residents wishing to support or reject the proposed ‘Caltongate’ regeneration scheme, as Ashley Davies reports.
dinburgh residents fighting
against controversial plans
to demolish and remodel large sections of the C anongate are urging others tojoin their campaign as the public consultation process nears its deadline.
Interested parties have until Monday 8 May to let Edinburgh (‘in Council know whether or not they support plans proposed by Mountgrange Capital - the company that bought the former New Street bus depot - to redevelop this one-time Bongo Club site that.
until recently. housed dozens of
artists‘ studios.
Mountgrange‘s plans for the soon to be renamed ‘Caltongate‘ area include creating a new road. Parliament Way. that will cut from East Market Street directly through to Canongate. and will result in the demolition of several buildings.
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including the former 1930s primary school. now called Canongate Ventures. on New Street.
Although Historic Scotland.
succeeded in persuading the developers to retain its unique facade. the Old Sailor‘s Ark building on the corner of New Street and C anongate will be pulled down to make way for a five-star. seven story hotel. This will be linked to a conference centre on the north of New Street.
Some 20 E] McRae-designed
tenement flats on Canongate. nine of which are council homes. are to be pulled down. A Mountgange spokesman told The List that the private owners would be offered a good deal for their flats and the council tenants would be
accommodated either in some of
the planned new builds or further down the Canongate. He insisted
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they would be given an equal or larger amount of space.
Up to 40 new flats and houses. 15% of which will be housing
association-run ‘affordable housing’ are part of the
development plans. according to Mountgrange.
Following earlier public consultation. the developer has decided to focus on what it hopes will be an ‘arts quarter'. It aims to refurbish the arches on East Market Street for ‘artists. artisans and independent coffee shops‘.
The spokesman said: ‘We are very interested in developing this quarter and want it to have a vibrant atmosphere. There‘s a genuine committment to attracting the community that was there before.‘ He added that key figures from Out of the Blue. which ran the New Street studios. had recently come on board to help devise a cultural plan. but said it was too early to know how artists would be selected and how much the spaces would cost.
The commercial development also proposes the building of a ‘prestige‘ office block on Jeffrey Street. which would block many of the views of the Waverley Valley. and the creation of a larger convenience store.
The Mountgrange spokesman said the company would do what it could to improve the gloomy.
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