Edinburgh Haymarket Redevelopment Approved

Edinburgh Haymarket Redevelopment Approved

Published on 04-07-2008 by Skyscrapernews.com
The planning committee of Edinburgh City Council has given approval to what will be the first tower in central Edinburgh for many years.

The 17 storey, 180 room, five star hotel scheme has been designed by Richard Murphy Architects for property company, Tiger Developments, to stand on a site near Haymarket Station orientated to create a gateway of blade-like sharpness in the form of a tower with an attached lower rise building and shared atrium running between it.

Also included in the proposals are a three star hotel and three office buildings. New landscaped pedestrianised areas by designer Gross Max tie the entire proposal together and will go some way to improving the dire public space that the area currently suffers from.

Although in terms of scale, a modest scheme by British standards, Edinburgh is a historic city with numerous listed buildings, a World Heritage Site and a famous castle that dominates the entire area from its promontory.

Concerns about how tall buildings fit in with this have insured that there has been little high-rise development in the city since the sixties despite it being the number two financial centre of the United Kingdom after London and one of Europe's richest cities.

Despite predictions of doom and gloom in the property industry due to credit crunch, preparation work is set to get underway at once on the scheme with construction beginning on site before the year is out.

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