The brick looks good in this context just as it does elsewhere in Edinburgh next to old tenements (see Upper Grove Place). Hopefully developers do more of this.

Six stories positive for density too, although may be a little squashed given adjacent building with same height appears to be only four!

#1 - They look to have been quite clever with the level of the ground floor relative to the adjacent tenement to fit 5 into 4, and then the top floor steps back with the pitched roof.

Looks a nice scheme, hopefully the built version is as good...

Looks great. Just a shame we have lost the ability to built bay windows!

There is a housing crisis in Edinburgh. Why, why, why, would anyone considering allowing a hotel in a residential suburb? There are no amenities or facilities anywhere near here that would make a hotel a sensible proposal. It's 45 minutes from the city centre by foot. It's 30 minutes from Portobello High Street. There is not a single hotel that isn't an AirBnB or small guest house with at least a mile. This is a residential street, in a residential neighbourhood. The "rhythm of the neighbourhood" that Block 9 refer to is not enhanced with a hotel. Picking up the language of all the surrounding tenenments may be best replicated by... and this is going to sound crazy... but by another tenement that people can put roots down in.

This is just another example of pure greed and a worrying development in the commercialisation of Edinburgh's residential spaces. There is no space left free in the centre where this type of proposal should be, and instead of either addressing the constant increase in demand by setting caps, or improving density, we are seeing the edges overflow and leak outwards. This area is entirely unsuitable for this type of proposal, and it's only appeal to the developer is that there is a naturally built density that they can exploit for profit. Shame on you Block 9 for perpetuating this.

I know the area well, and tourists do use it for accommodation. If this is the route to free tenements of Airbnb coming face to face, and disrupting the lives of ordinary people within the residential stairs, then I’m grudgingly supportive

Watch this space I'd put any money on it that if this proposal is given the go ahead there will be a subsequent application to turn it into student accommodation. You only gotta look at the site of the former Radical Road Pub along the road from here

The design looks relatively decent and there will be huge demand for anodyne faceless serviced apartments once every last Airbnb in Edinburgh has been crushed out of existence including the original core business which was people sharing their own homes. Serviced apartments somehow exempt from the new extremely confusing, badly applied and insanely strict STL planning and licensing rules.

#7, my heart bleeds for the operators of STLs being unable to make an easy buck from our housing stock any longer. The real tragedy is that they were allowed to operate and hollow out so much of the city already. Please, let’s have more serviced apartments, hotels, hostels and keep the holiday makers together and allow residents none less thing to worry about whilst they struggle to pay their inflated mortgages due to the number of already converted homes lost in the capital. Edinburgh has chosen to allow tourists to wag the dog, but residents must still have a place in the city or it’ll fall apart at the seams.

There's not enough parking for house owners another 22 parking spaces plus staff ridiculously development