The City of Edinburgh Council

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION AND RE-DESIGNATION OF CONSERVATION AREA

PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) (SCOTLAND) ACT 1997

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1997

Notice is hereby given that The City of Edinburgh Council have cancelled the existing Conservation Area at Victoria Park (designated on 20th February 1998) and have simultaneously re-designated it for the purpose of Section 61 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 with amendments to the boundary as described below:

Victoria Park

The original Conservation Area as designated on 20th February 1998 has been amended to include 2-24 Craighall Terrace, Craighall Gardens (including tennis court), 85 Craighall Road (workshop/ former railway station) and former railway line between Craighall Road and Newhaven Road.

A plan of the above Conservation Area showing the amended boundary together with a full description of the amended boundary and a street index with house numbers is available for public inspection at the office of the Director of City Development at 1 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh on Monday and Tuesday between 8.30am and 4.30pm, on Wednesday between 9.00am and 4.30pm, on Thursday between 8.30am and 6.00pm and on Friday between 8.30am and 3.30pm; and also at Leith Library, 28-30 Ferry Road (on Monday-Thursday 10.00am-8.00pm, on Friday 10.00am-5.00pm and on Saturday 9.00am-1.00pm).

Subject to the provisions of Section 67 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 no building in a Conservation Area may be demolished without the consent of the Planning Authority. Subject to the provisions of Sections 172 and 173 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 anyone proposing to do work on trees in a Conservation Area is required to give the Planning Authority six weeks notice of their intentions before the work is carried out.

Andrew Holmes, Director of City Development

2nd May 2003