Six residential apartments were shut down by Edinburgh City Council due to complaints from neighbours and residents, ranging from excessive noise and smashed bottles to underwear being thrown out of the windows.
The development management sub-committee heard from the locals who testified to the problems they had come across living next to Cornerstone Apartments at Baxter’s Terrace. The parties and nights out contained within the flats have lead the committee to scrap the original plans for the flats after planning officers had previously said they would not ‘’have an adverse impact on amenity to neighbouring properties’’.
Planning convener Councillor, Neil Gardiner, was emphatic in rejecting the flats, saying “Edinburgh city centre is a place to live and our policies are geared towards that. Maybe in recent years, the residential community has felt somewhat under siege. We should be seeking to protect and enhance the residential communities in the city centre.”
One person who lived between the party flats was Marcello Mega. She said “None of them is more than a two-bedroom or has more than a single toilet. At a weekend, we have potentially 61 noisy neighbours.”
“To suggest that that has no impact just seems ludicrous. Neighbours have all complained about the behaviour of residents in the flat - throwing underwear out of the windows, urinating in the stair and smashing bottles.
“It can be doors banging and slamming to and fro, we can smell smoke coming up between the floorboards and we do have a genuine fear about it being a fire hazard.”
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