JUMP Into Direct Action

JUMP, The campaign group calling for a radical rethink of the current Forth Ports Outline  Planning Application, are calling on Edinburgh residents to join a  demonstration against the proposals, when planning officials visit the docks on a site visit on the 13th of August.

The campaign has found out that the planning committee are due to leave the city chambers at 1.30pm, bound for the Forth Ports  HQ at 2pm. Therefore they're calling on everyone to meet them at the Prince of Wales Dock gates at 1.45pm.

According to their bulletin, JUMP remain firm in the facts that:

The Outline Planning Application stage is THE ONLY OPPORTUNITY TO CONSIDER THE TREATMENT OF THE SITE AS A WHOLE and the impact of the overall vision and infra structure choices for the Leith Docks site will impose on Leith and the City of Edinburgh if not correct at this stage.

JUMP believe that if the Planning Committee are minded to grant permission then this should be for CHANGE OF USE ONLY at this stage. This would allow for a review of the situation and the opportunity to set the site up for an Open International Competition. Under the current economic climate this could be beneficial to the landowners Forth Ports PLC allowing them a further development stage which could optimise their assets in the long term and deliver an exemplary design solution fit to meet the needs, desires and standards of a developing International City in the 21st century.

Directions to the Princes Dock Gate:

Via the Shore waterfront – walk through the decorative gates just past Malmaison Hotel and straight on into the Leith Docks. Turn right, cross over Ocean Drive road and gather at the turnstile gates marking the entrance to Forth Ports HQ.

From the Commercial Street Entrance -  continue into Leith Docks turn left along Ocean Drive until you arrive at the small roundabout and turn left to gather at the turnstile gates marking the entrance to Forth Ports HQ.

Furthermore, JUMP have also found out that the planning committee is scheduled to consider the proposals on the 27th of August in a meeting at the City Chambers. Greener Leith has submitted a formal objection to the development proposals, and we have asked the council to consider whether we will be permitted to make a representation to this meeting.