- For documents relating to the original tram project, airport to York Place, see this page.
- See also our Leith Walk and City Centre pages. The Leith Walk page includes material from plans at the time of the Leith Project.
2010 Tramstop “prior approval” planning applications
- The tramline overall has planning permission through the Act, except that “prior approval” must still be given by the Council for certain detailed aspects such as tramstops (2.5/2.6 of document below)
- Tramstop Planning & Design background – this document includes all the general legal/policy background (there is a similar document for Balfour St, but not the other applications).
- 20/03985/PA Mcdonald Rd Tram Stop Application Spokes objection
- 20/03986/PA Balfour St Tram Stop Application Spokes objection
- 20/04056/PA Shore Tram Stop Application Spokes objection
- 20/04058/PA Newhaven Lindsay Rd Tram Stop Application Spokes objection
- 20/04060/PA Ocean Terminal Tram Stop Application Spokes objection
1809 Tram Extension second consultation [following the changes resulting from the initial 1803 consultation below] Consultation page Spokes response [pdf] Our response uses the online survey questions, which were very limited, concerning only the abovementioned changes. In particular the questions had little detail between Foot of Walk and Newhaven – our comments on that remain largely as in our 1804 response below and are not repeated in this response.
1809 Leith Walk during tramworks Consultation on support for local businesses [link]. Consultation questions (council web page disappeared? but we saved the questions). Spokes response [pdf].
1803-04 Tram Extension first detailed consultation
NB – these original plans were absolutely disastrous for Leith Walk, car lanes increased from 2 to 4, cyclists to be squeezed between parked vehicles and tramlines. The public response was massive – see below. As a result, the plans were drastically revised, [Spokes tweet, council news release] car lanes reduced and segregated unidirectional bike lanes promised on each side. The details (so far) only became fully public when the revised scheme was then consulted on – see para 1809 above.
- 1804 Spokes final/main response [pdf 5MB], with main concerns followed by detailed commentary on the entire route. Tweet
- 1804 Spokes initial response [pdf] highlighting 5 main areas of concern Website article Tweet
- 1804 Living Streets Edinburgh response [doc]
- 1804 Cycling UK Scotland response [pdf]
- 1804 Leith Central Community Council response [pdf 2MB] -includes useful drawing of Leith Walk widths
- 1804 Cockburn Association response [link]
- 1804 Permanent Rail Consultancy response [pdf] – very good, especially on traffic reduction, though some other significant differences to our initial response. Tweet (with extract).
- 1803 Sustrans Scotland initial response [excellent!] Response [pdf] Tweet + location map
- 1803 Spokes public meeting 15.3.18 on tramline extension – report tweet
- 1803 Spokes circular to local members [pdf]
- Consultation website with exhibition dates and online survey
- Trams to Newhaven website with draft Traffic Orders [showing proposed road layouts], draft traffic management during the 2-3 year construction period, and much more.
- Combined TROs picture [jpg 5MB] showing complete layout, created by Donald Noble, @donaldrnoble. Note that in order to see the detail you may have to download the jpg then zoom in – or use this combined file to decide which of the individual TRO files above you wish to look at.
- Leith Walk width, drawing and thread of valuable tweets by Andy Arthur, @cocteautriplets
