- For documents relating to the original tram project, airport to York Place, see this page.
- See also Leith page. This includes the Leith LTN and route FoTW-OT.
- See also Leith Walk and City Centre pages. The Leith Walk page includes material from plans at the time of the Leith Project.
2105 Leith Walk temporary bidirectional bike route during construction – proposed closure till autumn Spokes paper objecting. People with no real alternative pic1 pic2 [MMcD]
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
2007 ‘Indicative Final Landscape Designs‘ Drawings giving a fairly thorough overall understanding of the entire route, though a lot of detail still awaited. Download drawings here.
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
