February 10 2022

A pre-application consultation has opened for residential development of up to 400 homes at Fort Kinnaird, Edinburgh, ahead of a full planning submission.

E&A Partnerships and Niddrie Development Company have tasked EMA with working up designs for a 6.39ha brownfield site, last used as a dumping ground for colliery deposits. As a result a large amount of earthworks are required for clearance and remediation to establish a new junction to the Wisp and an active travel route as part of efforts to deliver between 175 and 400 new homes.

In a statement, the applicants wrote: "The site contains colliery deposits and will require ground remediation. These elements result in a site that undulates but largely falls from the north and east to the southwest corner."

Stated opportunities and constraints include the loss of self-seeded trees to remediation works and an opportunity to tackle anti-social behaviour issues associated with the site.

Comments on the proposals can be made until 2 March. 

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