Application granted in January 2003 for:
"Conversion of hotel to form seven residential flats including internal alterations, formation of new entrance and windows on gable and new internal stair (as amended)"
This information is from the new planning portal, which anyone can access at
www.edinburgh.gov.uk\planning
Agree, Bath Street is on the up. I think containerisation has made a big difference and I don't think many will mourn the passing of the Royal in its latter days. Hopefully, someone will get on with replacing the Suite Factory before long and the last couple of shops at the foot of Bath Street will be converted to ground floor flats. I believe that work on the villa half way down is scheduled to start in the Spring. Think I heard that Portobello CAB is considering one of the vacant shop premises at the top? The new Chinese restaurant looks pretty classy and that just leaves the 'monstrous carbuncle', which has a life of its own elsewhere on this board.