Planning application
9A Alva Street New Town Edinburgh EH2 4PH
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Retrospective change of use of premises to short term let accommodation.
As published by the council, reference 25/04738/FULSTL
Application record
- Reference
- 25/04738/FULSTL
- Type
- Planning Permission STL
- Status
- Awaiting Assessment
- Received
- 9 Sep 2025
- Validated
- 9 Sep 2025
- Ward
- City Centre
- Parish
- West End
- Decision by
- Local Delegated Decision
- Postcode
- EH2 4PH
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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9 Sep 2025
Received by City of Edinburgh
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12 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 4 November 2025, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
City of Edinburgh took a median of 43 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Related applications
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1 later application on the register refers to this one:
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26/01466/FULSTL Awaiting decision
9A Alva Street Edinburgh EH2 4PH
Retrospective change of use from former office to STL (resubmission of application reference 25/04738/FULSTL).
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
5 documents on file for this application
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Awaiting decision Full applications 5 docs -
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