00:00Erin Properties Scotland Ltd submitted plans at the end of May to demolish the empty warehouse
00:06at 254 Leaf Walk and build a new 11-unit, 29-bed apart hotel with a sheltered woodland garden
00:13and secure bike store. Locals living on neighbouring Balfour Street are objecting to the proposed
00:18development at the back of their properties. You don't have hair because there is everything,
00:25privacy, not much distance and too close privacy because everybody can see if you are in their
00:34home or what you are doing, you know. I don't want to live with the closed curtains because
00:40I'm a clusterfork worker, so it means I need to open the windows during the winter, sometimes
00:46in the night, so I don't want the people to check me all the time because it makes me more
00:51nervous. And what is it? The noise? I need to sleep because I work in care home with
00:59the dementia people, and so I need to relax. Erin is there anything you want to add? Just privacy
01:06privacy, and noise. I really worried that once it's built that obviously it will be just one giant
01:15airbnb. Yeah. They can call it whatever they want, but it's a giant airbnb and it's far too close, far too
01:21close to the other buildings for privacy light however you would the light this is the most
01:26important thing so we have the sun here in the afternoon yeah it means after there is no sun
01:32and the build they are old and they are very cool the building yeah so if we have a little sun
01:38sometimes you know you can be a little happy to see this i'm thinking about when there is no sun
01:44because there is a building and i was checking they have a sun there after no sun everywhere
01:50because there is a bigger building
01:54with the current one story warehouse the same height as the wall at the back of the balfour street
02:00properties residents are concerned that the three story apart hotel would leave their gardens in
02:05darkness and a local councillor went along to hear their concerns i think the local residents have
02:11raised really valid concerns about the appropriateness of this development the development itself seems
02:16very close to existing tenements and when you look around an area you can see new developments are
02:21usually set back quite a lot from ten minutes which gives some open space some air some breathing room
02:26and most importantly at all some privacy i'm quite concerned that that's that's not going to be the
02:31case with this development so that's why i came here to learn a bit more about it today the plans will
02:36now be decided upon by the city of edinburgh council's planning department with 56 objections received so far
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