Introduction - Abbey Lane mixed use development

Today is the first event in a two stage public Artisan is an award winning place maker, consultation for a proposed residential and student established by a number of recent awards for their residential development on Abbey Lane. New Waverley development in City Centre including ‘Regeneration Project of the Year’, This exhibition forms a part of the pre-application in both 2016 and 2017. process and is your opportunity to learn more about our initial ideas on the redevelopment of Abbeyhill Artisan’s vision is to create a genuine sense of place Industrial Estate and to help us shape the future for all the schemes they are involved with, building Salisbury Court, Edinburgh - Unite Students plans for the site. exciting, sustainable and vibrant locations in which Gardens, Edinburgh - Artisan REI to live, work and visit. Artisan would bring this Please tell us what you think by filling in a feedback knowledge and experience to any future form, or simply talking to us, to help inform the development at Abbey Lane. design process before our second exhibition in December. Unite Students have managed students in Edinburgh for over 10 years. We will review your comments and hold a follow up exhibition to provide you with further detail before a Artisan and Unite Students are long established planning application is submitted. developers in Edinburgh and across the UK. We are working together on this site to provide a mix of housing and public realm improvements. Canonmills Gardens, Edinburgh - Artisan REI

Salisbury Court, Edinburgh - Unite Students

Abbey Lane, Edinburgh - Proposed mixed use development Public exhibition: October 2019 Who we are - what we do

Canonmills Gardens, Edinburgh - Artisan REI New Waverley - Royal Mile Hotels - Artisan REI

ARTISAN REAL ESTATE UNITE STUDENTS At Unite Students, we believe doing business is An innovative developer with over 30 years of UK’s largest student accommodation developer • Artisan Real Estate focus on delivering innovative, • about far more than just generating a profit, it’s experience and manager operating since 1991 sustainable and location specific, mixed-use about supporting the students that live with us, • Artisan have built a mix of residential, hotel, developments thereby creating vibrant high quality • Just over 50,000 students live with Unite in the along with the community they are in, in a way that specialist homes and commercial space across environments. Our pedigree and experience in UK, with about 4,500 in Scotland and of which represents everyone’s best interests. the UK delivering mixed-used developments sets us apart 1,700 are in Edinburgh from typical large scale or industrial focused We strive to ensure that being truly responsible in • 400 new homes, 230,000 sqft offices, 60,000 • Student well being and social inclusion are at developers. this way is embedded throughout every aspect of sqft retail, the heart of what Unite do how we do business. We call this ‘Up to uS’. • 900hotel rooms and 8,000 sqm of new public Artisan Real Estate will minimise the environmental realm has been delivered in Edinburgh impact of our operations and supply chain while • An award winning place maker increasing the energy and resource efficiency of our developments.

New Waverley -The Arches - Artisan REI New Waverley - Royal Mile Hotels - Artisan REI Salisbury Court, Edinburgh - Unite Students Sugarhouse Close, Edinburgh

Abbey Lane, Edinburgh - Proposed mixed use development Public exhibition: October 2019 Site location - Abbey Lane

The proposed 0.5ha site is a former industrial estate The northernmost part of the site is accessed from approximately 1 km east of the city centre, and is the car park via steps built into a low retaining wall. accessed from Abbey Lane with the east coast The western and southern boundaries of the site North railway line to the south and London Road to the are formed by a stone retaining wall. north. Cadzow Place View 3 Abbey Lane to the west of the site slopes down Abbey Hill provides a direct pedestrian link to Old from the A1 road junction (approximately 50 m View 4 Town, whilst bus routes on London Road connect north of the site) to a low point at the south-western London Road to New Town and the wider city. The site benefits corner of the site. from extensive views to Arthur’s Seat and Salisbury Crags, with an existing group of mature trees The retaining wall increases in height along the providing a buffer to the railway. western boundary to a maximum estimated height of approximately 3 m at the southwestern corner The topography of the site is relatively flat and level, and along the southern boundary of the site. with the northern part of the site approximately 1m higher than at the southern boundary.

Abbey Lane Bellway Site Site Site Development

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Railway Abbey Hill View 1 View 1 looking west along Spring Gardens (site on right) View 2 looking East along Brand Place towards the site Spring Gardens

Milton Street Site Site

View 3 looking South East to the site from London Road View 4 looking South West to the site from London Road Aerial view of the site with the Railway running to the south and London Road to the North

Abbey Lane, Edinburgh - Proposed mixed use development Public exhibition: October 2019 Site context - surrounding character & identity

The proposed development site is bounded to the The surrounding area was historically dominated by There are examples of typical Victorian Edinburgh The adjacent Bellway Homes development is north and west by Abbey Lane, to the south by railway infrastructure and industrial uses between tenement buildings on Earlston Place (1882, C formed predominantly in brick whist Brae House Springfield Gardens and the East Coast Railway the mid-1850s and the late 1960s circa 1968, at Listed) along London Road. Comely Green Place student housing uses a mixture of sandstone and line and to the east by three six and four storey which point the surrounding area was gradually is an early 19th century, B Listed tenement (1829) glass curtain walling. apartment blocks. redeveloped for commercial and residential use. in the Edinburgh New Town style.

Brand Place, Abbey Hill Victorian tenement buildings on Comely Green Place Adjacent Bellway Homes development

Victorian tenement buildings on London Road The Arc apartment building on London Road Brae House student accommodation on Abbey Hill

Abbey Lane, Edinburgh - Proposed mixed use development Public exhibition: October 2019 Site history

Historical and cartographic evidence indicates The proposed development site underwent A road once ran through the proposed From 1849 and the arrival of the railway, a Coal that the proposed development site was located substantial changes in the 19th century, reflecting development site, with Abbey Hill House gardens Depot and later Rose Lane Goods Station were out-with the medieval burgh of Edinburgh on the the changing nature of the Abbeyhill area which in the western portion and Comely Green House located on the site and were present until the mid rural-urban fringe throughout the early post transformed from an area on the rural / urban and Gardens in the eastern portion of the site. 20th century. The proposed development site was medieval period. fringe of Edinburgh to an urban, industrial area. subsequently used as an Industrial Estate to the present day.

Historic map from 1849 Historic map from 1892 Historic map from 1968

Site Site

Aerial view looking south west towards Holyrood - circa 1949 View looking North East on Abbey Hill station platform - circa 1949 Aerial view above site showing railway sidings - circa 1929

Abbey Lane, Edinburgh - Proposed mixed use development Public exhibition: October 2019 Opportunities & constraints

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Visual link to London Road London Road bus routes into City Centre Cadzow Place London Road shops and Montrose Terrace amenities within walking distance from site Potential for building feature at London Road north west corner of site

Existing trees provide pleasant outlook and privacy to the west of the site

A1 Abbey Mount Bellway Development Site Abbey Lane Abbey Hill Primary School Existing Vehicle access into site

Railway

Visual link to Abbey Hill Potential to form pedestrian links Spring Gardens to the adjacent Bellway Homes Sunpath Views development Abbey Hill Pedestrian route along Abbey Hill to Canongate

Milton Street

Existing foliage provides natural Existing tree cover provides buffer to railway natural buffer to railway Sunpath

Abbey Lane, Edinburgh - Proposed mixed use development Public exhibition: October 2019 Initial proposals - site concept

North Pre application engagement

Close proximity to local shops, Edinburgh A pre application meeting was held with City of City Centre and all associated amenities. Edinburgh Council (CEC) planning department in Opportunity to create active street December ’18, with redevelopment of the site for frontage on Abbey Lane student and residential development being supported. Highly accessible site within walking The proposed mix of student housing and distance to bus and rail network, with residential development was presented at 50:50 excellent links to walking and cycling Views through to amenity courtyard from routes (CEC policy compliant) - a higher density was street edge Pedestrian encouraged due to the brownfield nature of the site Access Vehicle Access within a city centre location with good public transport accessibility. Student Access The proposed development will offer 25% Improved public realm - arrival space Improved public realm - footpath widened affordable housing provision, in line with CEC to allow safer pedestrian passage policy.

Residential Residential unit size and student housing mix will Block Student Creation of a new, green, comply with the CEC standards, incorporating Block landscaped central courtyard secure cycle spaces, electric vehicle charging points and City Car club spaces, whilst looking to Amenity reduce on-site parking in accessible locations like Close proximity to Abbey Hill Primary Courtyard this. School High quality design-led scheme which Residential Block takes cognisance of wider setting, key views and links to adjacent development EUDP feedback and design development

A proposed scheme was presented to the EUDP panel in February ’19. The current proposals Opportunity to provide green roofs to Maintaining the green corridor along the address the comments received regarding building student block railway siting and massing, street level views, daylighting, privacy and amenity.

Provision of a mixed-use residential The adjacent diagram illustrates the design Reuse of industrial brownfield site, to (Artisan) and student residential (Unite) improve public realm by replacing industrial development progressed since that meeting. development mix at 50:50 CEC policy units with well-designed housing, compliant affordable housing and external works

Concept site layout diagram

Abbey Lane, Edinburgh - Proposed mixed use development Public exhibition: October 2019 Community benefits - landscape and public realm

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Active street frontage - opportunity to Public realm - site arrival area could Pedestrian Vehicle create community based active frontage include planters / landscape greening and Access Access on Abbey Lane a widened public footpath

Student Access Street lighting to the entrance of the site

Visual amenity - views to new courtyard along Abbey Lane through the glazed student reception space Dedicated residential refuse store

Student Block Residential Car free student scheme, with possible Block car club contributions and private parking for residential buildings including accessible spaces and vehicle charging points

Potential greening of Abbey Lane through Amenity planting in the possible recessed areas Courtyard 25% affordable housing provision for the residential development element.

Residential Improved public realm - footpath widened Green landscaped central courtyard Block to allow safer pedestrian passage

BREEAM accreditation for the student scheme and associated standards for Cycle parking provision CEC compliant Residential development. with possible public bike stands as well

Concept site layout diagram

Abbey Lane, Edinburgh - Proposed mixed use development Public exhibition: October 2019 Precedents - building materials and landscape design

Horne Terrace, Edinburgh - CDA Architects Holyrood North, Edinburgh - HarrisonStevens Landscape Architects Salisbury Court, Edinburgh - Allan Murray Architects

Westerlea, Edinburgh - CDA Architects Holyrood North, Edinburgh - HarrisonStevens Landscape Architects Salisbury Court, Edinburgh - Allan Murray Architects

The Botanics, Glasgow - CDA Architects Holyrood North, Edinburgh - HarrisonStevens Landscape Architects Salisbury Court, Edinburgh - Allan Murray Architects

Abbey Lane, Edinburgh - Proposed mixed use development Public exhibition: October 2019 Unite Students - our management

In Edinburgh we have 35 full time trained staff In Edinburgh our students and staff have : We believe we have a responsibility to ensure that members who are committed to providing not just we do business in a considered way looking after the accommodation, but a home for our population of • Raised £39046 for the British Heart Foundation interests of all our stakeholders. diverse students. through our stock donation partnership, also diverting 22.5 tonnes of waste from landfill ‘Up to uS’ is our commitment in how we operate and Our management is designed around detailed it comprises of : research-based student insight, providing a tailored • Volunteered over 275hours and raised £4757 in service for our students. With over 28years the local community (Edinburgh Sick Kids. Venture • Reducing our environmental impact experience, we have nationally recognised processes Trust, Rock Trust) to deal with noise complaints, move in days, • Deliver positive social impacts for young people neighbour queries and local engagement. We will • Donated over 340kg of goods to local food banks and the communities we operate in. agree to a management strategy at Abbey Lane with Been awarded Gold in the NUS Green Impact the City Edinburgh Council, our students and the awards for the last 2 years • Create a diverse and engaged team local community. • Awarded 30 accommodation scholarships to • Look after the interest of our customers, partners We pride ourselves with our pioneering ‘Home for University of Edinburgh students from a and investors. Success’ platform. This allows students to pay one background of care and family estrangement. 50% bill, covering all costs, from Wi-Fi and utilities to on of these were students from Scotland. site security. They can log 24-hour maintenance requests, arrange laundry services and get to know their future flat mates.

Abbey Lane, Edinburgh - Proposed mixed use development Public exhibition: October 2019 Next steps - project timeline

PLANNING PROCESS OCCUPATION

Late October Public Early December Public January 2020 June / July 2020 Autumn 2022 Buildings Consultation Event no.1 Consultation Event no.2 Planning Submission Development Committee occupied

2019 2020 2021 2022

March / April 2020 - November 2020 - July 2022 - Public August / September 2022 Demolition Start on site Realm completion - Buildings completed

CONSTRUCTION PHASES

Abbey Lane, Edinburgh - Proposed mixed use development Public exhibition: October 2019 Feedback - your thoughts and suggestions

Artisan and Unite are keen to consult closely with existing residents and key stakeholders as we look to shape our proposals. We will be holding another exhibition in December and would urge residents to come along and hear more about the exciting plans for Abbey Lane which will be informed by the feedback we receive following this event.

Please fill in a feedback form and leave it with us.

Or email: [email protected]

Or post to: CBRE, 7 CASTLE STREET, EDINBURGH, EH2 3AH.

The deadline for return of feedback forms is: Friday 15 November 2019

Abbey Lane, Edinburgh - Proposed mixed use development Public exhibition: October 2019