March 11 2022

A public consultation to transform Edinburgh's Cameron Toll Shopping Centre, currently designated as a commercial centre, into a neighbourhood centre has been held.

3DReid Architects have prepared a radical masterplan for the ageing out of town mall, opened in 1984, to take account of fast-changing mobility and shopping patterns.

This would see the current site, which alongside the mall comprises two drive-through outlets, a petrol station, service yards and a 1,000 space car park remodelled to face out to the Craigmillar Park Conservation Area.

The diversification strategy would include new homes, a hotel and improved pedestrian and cycle routes and follows a 2020 proposal to erect a new cinema and additional retail.

Detailed plans for the hotel and apartments will be brought forward separately following approval of the overall masterplan.  

3 Comments

#1 Posted by Passerby on 12 Mar 2022 at 13:14 PM

New homes in the car park area? How wonderful. Guess this is where the minimal wage workers will rent whilst providing services to the air bnb visitors to edinburgh

#2 Posted by Sultan of brooneye on 15 Mar 2022 at 21:30 PM

Trying not to be a negative Nelly here, but the scale seems so deluded that it must driven by sheer commercialism or it’s the old ‘add some levels we can concede to the planners - and if they don’t object we just get more units’.

#3 Posted by modernish on 16 Mar 2022 at 09:21 AM

Genuinely laughable. The white building in the roof terrace image must be at least 10 storeys tall! In the 'perimeter block' image they have a 5 storey block, everyone knows it's either 4 (no lift) or 6 minimum (with a lift) there's not a developer in the land who builds 5 storey residential.

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