Development Dilemma for the Historic Craighouse Campus

Edinburgh Napier University’s 60-acre Craighouse campus could be converted to a housing development. The developer is proposing to build 116 new homes in the open grounds and additional 66 units inside the existing listed buildings. The developer team includes the University and two private developers. The developers claim that the plan will not be financially viable without the construction of new homes.

The new Labor-SNP coalition wants to preserve the green space, and direct new developments to “brownfield” sites. A local community group argues that the proposed development on protected green space should not be allowed. “We have seen some of the most beautiful parts of the site threatened by four story new-build.”

Reference: Ferguson, Brian, University to earn £1.5m from sale of historic campus for housing, sportsman.com/news/education, May 14, 2012 Photo Credit: M J Richardson. Licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. 
 

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