Planning Merchiston Community Council is a statutory consultee for all planning applications. Our Planning Sub-Group ( Mairianna Clyde (Lead), John Lennie Alex Orr and Ed Bewsher) scrutinises all applications relating to our area, sets up site visits if appropriate, and decides whether a formal MCC response is required. In the case of major developments, we will organise a special public meeting and invite residents most likely to be affected. Any local resident is welcome to contact us about any planning issue.

Planning Changes

Just a heads up to those with planning issues they have outstanding or to bear in mind for future planning applications you may wish  to  object to: We have just learned that as of 1st of January 2010 there will need to be 7 or more independent objections before an application will go to Committee for consideration.

The Weekly Planning Bulletin contains two parts. Part One: This is a list of recently registered planning applications. You can inspect the plans, forms and other documents at the address below. Opening times are 8:30 - 17:00 Mon-Thurs, 8:30 – 15:40 Friday. Alternatively, you can view this information on the Planning and Building Standards Portal using the website address below If you want to make comments on the application, you can do this in a number of ways. BY POST to the Head of Planning and Strategy, City Development Department, Business Unit G2, Waverley Court, 4 East Market Street, Edinburgh EH8 8BG BY FAX to 0131 529 6206 BY EMAIL direct to the case officer ONLINE through the Planning and Buildings Standards Portal at www.edinburgh.gov.uk/planning And to us at the Community Council Current Applications and decisions can be found at http://citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk/publicaccess/default.aspx Part Two: This is the decision list.

There is a worrying trend whereby developers / prospective landlords are buying top floor tenement flats and seeking to build into the loft area. This is a potential fire hazard and over development of common stairs and something we should like to see curbed.