India Street Public Exhibition
India Street
Urban regeneration specialist, Vita Group is bringing forward plans for a purpose-built student accommodation and affordable housing at 20 India Street.
This consultation page will be kept up to date with details of the proposal throughout the planning programme including events you can attend and opportunities to share feedback.
A detailed outline of the plans can be seen through the supporting PDF, but in short, the proposal is to create a high-quality purpose-built student accommodation and affordable housing, supported with better public realm and a retail / leisure unit.
Development Purpose
Creating environments in which people can thrive, at the heart of Vita Groups plans will be to create class-leading student accommodation under its Vita Student brand which delivers outstanding accommodation paired with the very best customer experience. Vita Student already has one site in operation in Glasgow in the West End and it’s hoped this site will help to meet Glasgow’s ever-increasing demand for quality student accommodation and help to alleviate supply and demand pressures felt across Glasgow’s rental market.
Timeline
Feedback Form
By submitting your details via this online form we may contact you in future in relation to this planning application and other Vita Group news. You can view our legal notice here.
Key Concern | Our Response | Concern regarding the use of the site for
student accommodation. | Student accommodation, along with affordable housing and a commercial unit, provides a viable alternative to the consented build-to-rent use in light of the Scottish Government ‘rent freeze’ introduced in September 2022. There is an established need for additional purpose built student accommodation in Edinburgh. |
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Concern regarding the impact of building height
on sunlight access to neighbouring buildings. | A Daylight, Sunlight and Overshadowing Report is being undertaken to assess impact on neighbouring properties to ensure any impact is within acceptable standards. |
Concern regarding the impact of building height
and massing on streetscape views and outlook
of neighbouring buildings. | The proposals will be supported by a Townscape and Visual Impact Assessment to assess the height of the proposed development in local and long-distance views. The Visualisations shown on board 7, taken from both the north and south of Sibbald Walk, show that the top storey will not be visible from these locations. |
More detailed work and assessments are currently being undertaken which are helping to inform and shape the final design proposals.
The comments received from this second public consultation event will be considered before submitting a formal application to the City of Edinburgh Council. Comments received throughout the pre-application consultation stage, and how they have been considered, will be detailed in the Pre-Application Consultation Report which will be submitted in support of the forthcoming application.