Local residents have responded to recent plans to turn the former site of the Clermiston Health Clinic into affordable housing.
SNP councillor Euan Hyslop said that at a recent Edinburgh City Council finance and resources committee on Thursday September 8 it was agreed that an additional piece of land would also be sold to the developer, AMA Homes, who purchased the land in 2021. He said that as a condition of this, he demanded that 100 per cent affordable housing above ground level be part of the development.
As well as this he asked that the development be completed within a year to stop the AMA from sitting on the site and delaying what he felt was a ‘much needed regeneration and increase in local affordable housing’ in the area. Under the existing plans, the former outpatient health clinic will be turned into a block of affordable housing with shop fronts on the ground floor.
