March 28 2025

A planned townhouse development will complete Edinburgh's Craighouse Campus following a similar application last year.

Comprehensive Design Architects are returning to Morningside with the submission of new plans for a site adjacent to the original South Craig Villa near Sassoon Grove.

Replacing a consented apartment block, the land has already been cleared in anticipation of development, this time a collection of 234sq/m family homes to complement the existing mix of newly built and converted apartments.

Outlining the urban design principles behind their project CDA wrote: "Located within the peaceful landscape setting of the Craighouse Development, the townhouses benefit from close, unrestricted access to open woodland. The clear definition of existing open public pathways and landscape is retained, with enclosed rear gardens offering private high-quality amenity space for each townhouse.

"The new buildings are dual aspect orientated east to west which reduces overlooking the neighbouring apartment building, compared with the previous scheme."

Front and gable elevations will be faced in buff sandstone with off-white render to the rear.

3 Comments

#1 Posted by Al on 28 Mar 2025 at 23:42 PM

Bit of a trek from the 3rd floor to the kitchen on the ground floor if you want to take the Mrs / Mr / A.N.Other a cuppa in bed in the morning.

#2 Posted by Lovely on 30 Mar 2025 at 11:34 AM

Just put a wee utility/coffee kitchen on the top floor for the morning cuppa. It would be interesting to see an internal plan published now and again on Urban Realm. The external scheme is not particularly attractive on this one.

#3 Posted by Philip on 1 Apr 2025 at 11:26 AM

Why such an overtly dense, urban house type in such a green, low density, designed landscape environment!?
Developer greed/ compliant architect perhaps?
Mundain, corporate cut and paste job..well done CDA.

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