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The City of Edinburgh Council has opened the second round of engagement to gain people’s views on proposals to create new homes and commercial premises in Craigmillar’s local centre.

Edinburgh councillors are a week away from potentially approving Scotland's first Visitor Levy, a scheme aimed at raising up to £50 million annually through a 5% charge in addition to the cost of overnight accommodation.

Jane Meagher has been named as the new leader of the City of Edinburgh Council. The former Housing, Homelessness and Fair Work convener was appointed by her fellow councillors following the resignation of Cammy Day as leader on Monday 9 December.

Shelter Scotland led a protest outside Edinburgh City Chambers yesterday calling for Scottish Ministers and the Scottish Housing Regulator to "immediately intervene" amid claims the City of Edinburgh Council voted to suspend lifeline housing rights until March 2028. Calling for special measures to b

Maxi Construction has been awarded a £3.7 million contract from the City of Edinburgh Council for refurbishment works to May & Gunnet Court in the Muirhouse area of the city. Works to the two nine-storey occupied residential buildings include the replacement of 19.5m high glazed screens an

A new website has been launched for those interested in living, working in or visiting the new sustainable coastal town being created at Granton Waterfront in north Edinburgh.

Tenants have praised a new £4.8 million housing development in Edinburgh. The Rowanbank development, in the Corstorphine area of the city, consists of 33 flats for social rent with Wheatley Homes East. 

With three months to go before the City of Edinburgh Council sets next year’s budget, residents are encouraged to have their say on where the council should invest and save.

Plans for the largest regeneration project of its kind in Scotland for a new environmentally friendly coastal town in Edinburgh have been given the go-ahead by the capital’s planning authority.

Almost all of the planning applications made to the City of Edinburgh Council for properties to operate as short-term lets have been rejected since the introduction of a new system in 2022, according to a freedom of information request lodged by Gilson Gray.

Homelessness organisations have criticised plans by the City of Edinburgh Council to move 700 homeless people out of unlicensed temporary accommodation before the start of December.

Councillor James Dalgleish, planning convener at the City of Edinburgh Council, writes about a bold and ambitious plan agreed last week by councillors to make better use of land in the capital. Edinburgh’s population is growing fast and so a major highlight of City Plan 2030 is setting aside e

Councillors in Edinburgh have agreed a bold and ambitious plan for sustainable growth in the Capital.

A robust management plan to continue to protect the Outstanding Universal Value of the Old and New Towns World Heritage Site in the Capital will be considered for approval by the City of Edinburgh Council’s Planning Committee next Wednesday.

The City of Edinburgh Council is looking for people’s views on proposals to create new homes and commercial premises in Craigmillar’s local centre.