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Harry Willliams @harryjwilliams.bsky.social · Jun 6
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Edinburgh local creates handy tool to view planning applications across city  - Deadline News
AN EDINBURGH local has created a nifty tool for staying up to date on planning applications in the city, called City Scope.
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📍 Site 60 Metres South Of 199 Fountainbridge Tollcross Edinburgh
👉 Mixed-use hotel complex at Fountainbridge with short/long-stay rooms, student beds, co-working, events spaces, gym, restaurant, caf, rooftop bar and servicing access…
⚖ Scale: 8/10
📂 Ref: 25/06023/PAN
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/28q944e2
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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📍 Cameron Toll Shopping Centre 6 Lady Road Mayfield Edinburgh
👉 Masterplan for Cameron Toll overhaul with new homes, student and later-living blocks, hotel, shops, offices, leisure spaces and landscaped public realm. .
⚖ Scale: 9/10
📂 Ref: 25/06138/PAN
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/263p4m8v
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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*Sugo coming to George Street!
ediplanningupdates.bsky.social Edinburgh Planning Updates @ediplanningupdates.bsky.social · 2d
📍 80B George Street New Town Edinburgh EH2 3BU
👉 Illuminated SUCO fascia letters, matching transom sign, gold window vinyl and slim projecting sign proposed for George St frontage. .
⚖ Scale: 2/10
📂 Ref: 25/06187/ADV
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/255kadom

#PlanningUpdates #Edinburgh
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November 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Looks like some much needed work is planned to improve the pedestrian facilities around new town next year.
November 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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A pretty grim planning app: the owners of the old Leith Walk railway viaduct want to keep using this historic structure as a giant billboard for even longer.

How about investing in the site and rehabilitating it instead of squeezing more ads out of it?

www.city-scope.co.uk/25/06076/ADV
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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spokes.org.uk
#Tram consultation - Spokes submission

--> www.spokes.org.uk/wp-content/u...

🙋 You have till midnight Monday for your own response!
HERE--> consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/tram-nor...

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Intro... Tram, Granton to Bioquarter consultation Spokes Planning Group response, November 2025 1. Introduction Spokes has the objective of promoting cycling as part of an overall sustainable transport and access strategy. As such, we support a growing tram system for Edinburgh, provided cycling is well catered for in the project design and operation. The aim of the tram is to reduce car traffic, and to head off potential traffic growth in development areas such as Granton and the Bioquarter. If successful, this is a huge benefit to walking and cycling, as well as its benefits in terms of congestion, public health and climate. However, the project should be accompanied by complementary measures to further encourage use of public transport and active travel, for example bus gates, traffic filters, and, notably, congestion charging. It is well established that traffic reduction is best achieved by a carrot/stick combination. The tram project must support and promote active travel as a whole, and cycling in particular, and must not introduce additional dangers without effective mitigation. The Council has ambitious targets to increase cycle use, much of which must come from novice and inexperienced cyclists, as well as visitors and locals using an expanding bike hire scheme. As such it is essential that there is a safe, comprehensive and connected bike network of segregated bike lanes and low-traffic areas, easy and safe to use by anybody, and with any kind of cycles - including cargobikes, adapted bikes, hire bikes, etc. Introducing the tram should be seen and planned from the outset as an integrated sustainable transport place making project, not a tram-only project into which cycling and walking have to be slotted in once all the tramline decisions are taken as happened with tramline 1 and to a considerable (though lesser) extent in the Newhaven extension. The Bridges corridor is hugely problematic.. 8. City Centre to Bioquarter Top issues ● The section through North and South Bridges is of extreme concern to Spokes, with no cycle provision, new tramlines and continued through traffic on a road where width is at a premium. This is making cycling provision far worse than in the current bus lanes. The project should include a bus gate / modal filter (as was planned, though never implemented, as part of the Spaces for People proposals ) potentially single track sections (like at Roseburn) and fully segregated cycle provision, or consideration to tram tracks on one side of the road and a bidirectional bike path on the other. For the reasons in the following two bullet points, many cyclists will continue to use this corridor - our above section on Bikes and Tramlines notes that Princes Street as a good example of this, with many choosing not to use the quieter George Street when it is less direct or lacks desired destinations. Thus cycling conditions must be safe. ● Whilst alternative north-south routes for cycles are proposed in the consultation, these would not suit all journeys, with many cyclists using the Bridges to travel between South Edinburgh and Leith given the more suitable gradient and directness than the Mound. And whilst there is a brief reference to the proposed Meadows to George Street route on the west side of the Bridges, there is no reference to the east side, where the Mobility Plan suggests a new active travel bridge connecting from the Old Town to Leith Walk. Such projects must be an integral part of the tram project provision including during the construction phase, also providing a permanent legacy of improved provision once finished. ● The Bridges corridor is a major residential, shopping and destinations location, and many cyclists use it for that reason; indeed many live along or just off the corridor. Routes via the Mound or Pleasance are irrelevant as alternatives for these categories of user.… linking the North Ed Network to the new canal path without descending and re-ascending - a transformative opportunity - diagram. ● Connecting Roseburn to the new Canal link path - The sketch below shows a possible layout for this crucial linkage. The yellow dotted line shows a ramp down to Russell Road, but this is possibly optional if it would cause engineering difficulties, given that most people will stay at high level, whilst those needing to descend or ascend could do so at Roseburn or at the nearby ramp to the new canal path. Finally, we understand that earlier discussions with Network Rail did not meet objections to a bridge provided that all necessary clearances are achieved. Picture of single-track shopping-street tram in Amsterdam
November 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Critical Safety Issues for 🚲👩‍🦼🚶

👍 Superb new Guidance from #govuk @ategov.bsky.social

--> www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Cover page of the new Guidance Active Travel England Guidance Critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling Published 6 November 2025 What is a critical safety issue? A critical safety issue is defined as a street layout or condition that is associated with an increased risk of collisions for people walking, wheeling or cycling. Active Travel England’s route check tool identifies 16 critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling. This guidance explains each of the issues with illustrations and provides links to relevant guidance and key evidence. You can use this guidance with the route check tool to identify and remove these risks. This will help reduce the risks of collisions for people walking, wheeling or cycling. The recommendation to focus on identifying and removing critical issues was introduced nationally in Local Transport Note 1/20 for cycling and regionally through approaches such as London’s Healthy Streets check and Greater Manchester’s Streets for All check.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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#RailwayForEveryone #ScotRail
November update (yellow=recent)

-> scotlandsrailway.com/about-us/rfe

Info: [email protected]

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rail accessibility schemes in Edinburgh & surroundings Dunbar station developments A new link from Platform 2 to new housing is under construction led by East Lothian Council. It is hoped that work inside the station boundary can delivered in 2025/26. In addition, a new pedestrian and wheeling route from Deer Park housing estate and Spott Road to Platform 1 and station house is under consideration. Bathgate Potential to improve Pillar1 with a walking/wheeling link. Possibility of funding for a feasibility study. With support from SRT colleagues. Further discussion with West Lothian Council. Longniddry Positive discussions with East Lothian Council, land agent and housing developer on potential improvement to Pillar1 with walking/wheeling link to new housing and to the existing village. NRS Sponsor liaising with East Lothian Council. With support from SRT colleagues. Brunstane Station Bridge Review of this bridge, which carries National Cycle Network route 1, being led by Sustrans and City of Edinburgh Council. Surveyors on-site to inform detailed designs. Awaiting designs. Edinburgh: Southeast Wedge Positive discussions r.e. new entrance to Shawfair. Curriehill Ongoing discussions with City of EdinburghCouncil&Heriot Watt University for a mixed-use path from Riccarton Campus to Station. Plans withCity of Edinburgh and SRT improving immediate station environment. Winchburgh Proposal for new station submitted for planning permission by Network Rail Scotland. Liaison with planning team for an accessible station meeting Railway for Everyone recommendations. Borders Line: future investment opportunities Liaison with Network Rail sponsors team reviewing opportunities for improving accessibility as an output of future investment opportunities: particular focus on stations at Newcraighall, Shawfair, Galashiels and Tweedbank. Falkirk Grahamston – AfA and public realm Station selected for Access for All (AfA) feasibility study funding. AfA is led by NRS Sponsor. rail accessibility schemes in Fife & surroundings Abernethy under-bridge Perth & Kinross Countryside Trust, acting for Perth & Kinross Council, collaborating with the Asset Protection Team (AsPro) on an active travel link shadowing the line. Manor Powis roundabout A break in the national cycle network could be overcome with access to our land for an off-road path. We are positive on assisting this development. Liaising with Stirling and Clackmannanshire councils. Fife stations: Burntisland, Cardenden, Cowdenbeath, Kinghorn, Glenrothes with Thornton, and Lochgelly, Site visits and report shared with Fife Council on accessibility at stations in Fife that are potentially affected by future investment opportunities. Meeting with local MP. Living Streets on site in Cardenden conducting street audits. Newburgh Station Further discussions on campaigns by community group for new station at Newburgh. Leuchars station Report published. Edinburgh Gateway Meetings with City of Edinburgh Council to discuss rail and planning. Focus on housing development at Edinburgh Gateway. cover page of Novemember report, pictures of bike, wheelchair, guide dog, etc at station How passengers get to stations While car parking and drop-off remain important, particularly in very rural locations, it's not the dominant mode of travel to stations. We also now better understand how passengers get to the station. Our colleagues in ScotRail are surveying passengers three times a year, and from their work we can now see that walking is the most popular way that people get to rail stations. Walk/wheel 36% car 26% bus 13% cycle 7% other 17%
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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📍 Land 30 Metres South Of 26 Tolbooth Wynd North Leith Edinburgh
👉 Plinth and under-croft parking cleared, substation shifted, stairs repaired; site re-worked for 49 terraced houses and flats with new landscaped grounds. .
⚖ Scale: 7/10
📂 Ref: 25/05731/FUL
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/27efdlls
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November 1, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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You can see them on the app as of today 👇
October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Is this a joke? -- this is the only part of the West Edinburgh link ("phase 1") that will take ~ 8 months to construct (The red section)....
October 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Edinburgh’s planning portal is down, you can still view all planning applications from 2025 here😉:
www.city-scope.co.uk
City Scope
Explore modern insights into planning applications across Scotland.
www.city-scope.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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📍 Land 288 Metres Southwest Of 10 Builyeon Road Echline South Queensferry
👉 New two-stream primary and 128-place nursery on landscaped site, creating modern learning spaces and play areas for roughly 420 pupils. .
⚖ Scale: 7/10
📂 Ref: 25/05325/AMC
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/25vpyuo3
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October 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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spokes.org.uk
Station 🚲👩‍🦼🚶 accessibility proposals

Questions: john.lauder @networkrail.co.uk

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Cover page of Railway for EveryoneReport for:October 2025(25/26 P7) proposals for corridor 3, edinbrugh area... • Dunbar station developments A new link from Platform 2 to new housing is under construction led by East Lothian Council. It is hoped that work inside the station boundary can delivered in 2025/26. In addition, a new pedestrian and wheeling route from Deer Park housing estate and SpottRoad to Platform 1 and station house is under consideration. • Bathgate Potential to improve Pillar1 with a walking/wheeling link. Possibility of funding for a feasibility study. With support from SRT colleagues. Further discussion with West Lothian Council. • Longniddry Positive discussions with East Lothian Council, land agent and housing developer on potential improvement to Pillar1 with walking/wheeling link to new housing and to the existing village. NRS Sponsor liaising with East Lothian Council. With support from SRT colleagues. • Brunstane Station Bridge Review of this bridge, which carries National Cycle Network route 1, being led by Sustrans and City of Edinburgh Council. Surveyors on-site to inform detailed designs. Awaiting designs. • Edinburgh: Southeast Wedge Meetings with land agent for Eskbank and Shawfair completed. • Curriehill Proposal by Heriot Watt University for a mixed-use path from Riccarton Campus to Station in abeyance. Funding from City of Edinburgh and SRT improving immediate station environment ready for path project re-opening. • Winchburgh Proposal for new station submitted for planning permission by Network Rail Scotland. Liaison with planning team for an accessible station meeting Railway for Everyone recommendations. • Borders Line: future investment opportunities Liaison with Network Rail sponsors team reviewing opportunities for improving accessibility as an output of future investment opportunities: particular focus on stations at Newcraighall, Shawfair, Galashiels and Tweedbank. • Falkirk Grahamston – AfA and public realm Station selected for Access for All (AfA) feasibility study funding. AfA is led by… Corridor 2 proposals - Fife etc Abernethy under-bridge Perth & Kinross Countryside Trust, acting for Perth & Kinross Council, collaborating with the Asset Protection Team (AsPro) on an active travel link shadowing the line. Manor Powis roundabout A break in the national cycle network could be overcome with access to our land for an off-road path. We are positive on assisting this development. Liaising with Stirling and Clackmannanshire councils. Fife stations: Burntisland, Cardenden, Cowdenbeath, Kinghorn, Glenrothes with Thornton, and Lochgelly, Site visits and report shared with Fife Council on accessibility at stations in Fife that are potentially affected by future investment opportunities. Meeting with local MP. Newburgh Station Further discussions on campaigns by community group for new station at Newburgh. Leuchars station Report published, see slide 7. Edinburgh Gateway Meetings with City of Edinburgh Council to discuss rail and planning. Focus on housing development at Edinburgh Gateway. More detail re the ongoing Dunbar access improvement Work has begun to create a new entrance to Platform 2 from several large housing developments. East Lothian Council are realigning an existing path network and Scotland’s Railway are rebuilding an existing emergency exit to form a new path onto the platform. The route will be more direct and avoid an underpass. The project has been made possible through a collaboration between East Lothian Council, ScotRail and Scotland’s Railway with funding support from the Active Travel Infrastructure Fund (ATIF) run by Transport Scotland. The programme is running to time and will involve completion by East Lothian in November, then a handover to Network Rail Scotland for the rail-side works. Completion is planned by March 2026.
October 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Bubble tea outlet CUPP planning an expansion into one of the St James units on Leith st
October 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Changed .@cityscope back to @ediplanningupdates.bsky.social

This makes more sense right now tbh. Maybe I will buy that domain at some point
October 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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#Queensferry - consultn date extended to Fri 17 Oct

NB - this is separate from (and better than!) the town centre scheme now under construction

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October 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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The council have included actual design overlays for the new Dundee Street Active Travel Project.

This is great, super detailed and easy to understand!

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October 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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spokes.org.uk
#Tram #Granton-#Bioquarter

🙋 Spokes draft response [as of 6 Oct]
--> www.spokes.org.uk/2025/10/tram...

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Tram Granton to Bioquarter – Spokes early draft response, as of 6 Oct With the consultation now well underway, the Spokes draft response is developing well. You can find it here [1.9MB pdf]. We strongly stress that this is a work in progress and there are likely to be considerable further edits, particularly to the second part of the response, dealing with individual sections of the route. Major updates and ideas in the draft, since our initial thoughts, include.. An introductory section on bikes and tramlines, which includes lessons from our tramline-crash reporting tool and from earlier phases of Edinburgh tram Detailed commentary on all sections of the route [several sections still require considerable fleshing out]. Some major issues/opportunities arising include.. Great concern over cycling safety in the Bridges corridor. We urge single-line working for this section, or possibly the tramlines on one side of the road with bidirectional segregated cycling on the other side We suggest dropping North Bridge tram stop and replacing it by two stops – at Waverley Steps to serve east Princes Street and the rail station, and at the North Bridge arcade, to serve the Old Town and again the rail station. There are multiple reasons for this suggestion, in addition to a major cycling safety aspect There may be an opportunity to incorporate an active travel bridge over the mainline railway, linking the North Edinburgh Network to the new Fountainbridge link, without the long ramps down to road level and up again. What you can do Above are just some of the highlights of our draft response – there is a wealth of other detail, and we welcome any feedback Forward our draft to anyone who may be interested Repost our bluesky post Like our facebook article Most important of all – submit your own response to the consultation. Use the online QA and/or the email address given.
October 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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I broke @city-scope.co.uk somehow and haven’t had time to fix,

You can still see what has been added recently to the planning portal on
the www.city-scope.co.uk website!
City Scope
Explore modern insights into planning applications across Scotland.
www.city-scope.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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spokes.org.uk
#Queensferry #ActiveTravel 🚲👩‍🦼🚶 consultn, ends 10 Oct

🙋 Respond by email or online

Consultn page & DRAFT response--> www.spokes.org.uk/documents/me...

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Picture of the active travel route and connections being consulted on Consultation heading.. Queensferry: Builyeon Road new primary school and improved active travel connections Closes 10 Oct 2025 Opened 28 Aug 2025 Start of the DRAFT spokes response.. Queensferry: Builyeon Road new primary school and improved active travel connections DRAFT Spokes consultation response The page numbers below refer to the document Queensferry Connections DRAFT Developed Designs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- South Queensferry residents already suffer from the effects of excessive traffic with actual and perceived risk to life, excessive noise, pollution and negative health impacts of increasing levels of inactivity, especially amongst younger generations. With over 1600 properties built or planned to be built in just a few years within the town, Edinburgh Council must act now to make active travel a more attractive option for people to choose to travel to, from and around South Queensferry. Spokes broadly welcome these proposals as we believe this could potentially be the start of what is required to provide adults and children with the opportunity for active travel which for most does not currently exist. There is an opportunity for a wider active travel network throughout South Queensferry and these proposals as the currently stand exclude other areas of South Queensferry, for example other schools around the town. All children and adults should have the right to exercise for free and to travel actively safely and we would urge the Council, the Scottish Government and other funding partners to take a proactive approach to planning this (and other) active travel networks, not just individual routes that are not joined up one of the main proposals maps in the consultation, showing the active travel route beside and crossing a road
September 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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📍 1 Redheughs Avenue Edinburgh EH12 9RH
👉 Major Edinburgh Park scheme could deliver a green data centre plus parkland, sports pitches, new cycle/foot links, parking and upgraded vehicle access. .
⚖ Scale: 8/10
📂 Reference: 25/04239/PPP
🔄 Status: Awaiting Assessment
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/24qrrerq
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September 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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📝New planning application: a “green” data centre + public park with sports + active-travel routes at 1 Redheughs Avenue.

📍 1 Redheughs Avenue Edinburgh EH12 9RH www.city-scope.co.uk/25/04239/PPP
September 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Everyone moans about bats and great crested newts, but for me this is the sort of stuff that really clogs up the planning system. We have to decarbonise housing and every window replacement in one of Edinburgh's MANY conservation areas will need a planning application
ediplanningupdates.bsky.social Edinburgh Planning Updates @ediplanningupdates.bsky.social · Sep 9
📍 3F1 11 Dundonald Street Edinburgh EH3 6RZ
👉 Upgrade listed sash windows with slimline double-glazed units, retaining original cases and reinstating historic detailing. .
⚖ Scale: 2/10
📂 Reference: 25/04396/LBC
🔄 Status: Awaiting Assessment
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/26judxs7
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September 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Our deputation to Planning Committee 10/9/25 (not yet on CEC website)

Where we take the report to task for not tackling CEC's abysmal record on Developer Contributions and Infrastructure Delivery as regards buses. Despite our comments in earlier consultation.
Planning Committee 10/9/25 7.2 Non-statutory Planning Guidance on Developer Contributions and Infrastructure Delivery - finalisation We note with regret the report's discussion on the merits and feasibility of statutory guidance, resulting in non-statutory guidance being finalised today. We urge the Planning Committee to ensure that guidance specifically on public transport infrastructure will be appropriately strengthened in the next LDP and the necessary research and preparatory work will be properly resourced to achieve this. We regret that Bus Service Infrastructure (3.81) only gets one paragraph (in stark contrast with other modes of transport) and lacks detail ("Contributions towards PT1 – 17 can be sought on a case by case basis"). We note the reference to CP 2030 ("There may, however, be a need for some subsidy payment to bus operators to ensure that an adequate service is in place from the moment of first occupation of the development whilst transport demand builds.") and would expect muscular implementation of this provision. We note with regret that reference is made to "legacy actions" (3.82) but that the associated tables in Appendices 8 and 9 lack (up to date) cost details. Despite these weaknesses we would expect energetic collection of such contributions and timely implementation. In particular we would urge both the Planning and the Transport Environment Committee to monitor progress regularly
September 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM