Category: Planning

Taking a walk around the gentle curve of Edinburgh’s famously picturesque Circus Lane, the clocktower of St Stephen’s Church looms overhead and draws you towards the eastern end of the Lane, as one of the New Town’s latest additions comes into view. Designed as a two-storey extension to an existing mews property, the new building is a full stop to the row of houses on the north side of the Lane. Occupying a site formerly used as garages, the next-door […]

Collective Architecture has been appointed to lead a combined consultancy team to deliver the design for conversion of the Old Cooperative Bakery building, incorporating part demolition, retention, and part conversion, with potential new build interventions to bring the building back into use for the local community and visitors. The design team is focusing on a Fabric First approach while making sure that the building will provide for the needs of the community in the long term. Most of the building […]

Reinventing the City Edge Workplace. 7N secured planning consent for Shelborn Edinburgh Limited with a new form of city edge workplace that re-considers what a workplace focused on sustainability and occupant wellbeing should look like. The design challenges the established business park norm in the Edinburgh Park district of West Edinburgh by departing from pavilion buildings surrounded by parking and decorative landscape, to create an active campus that is designed around people. The proposals focus on biophilic and sustainable design, […]

At one time, Lighthill was used by sailors to navigate by night in Loch a Tuath. We anticipate that Comann Eachdraidh Sgìre a’ Bhac will be a renewed beacon in the landscape, establishing its presence on this significant site once again. Situated in the heart of the village of Vatisker, Back in the Isle of Lewis, the site housed a demolished school and has since lain vacant and undeveloped for decades.So, unlike other districts in the Outer Hebrides, Back has […]