Follow this link to sign our online petition to get Gillespie Crescent Listed.
Surprised it isn't already Listed? So were we. Listing would prevent irresponsible HMO letting agencies ruining some of these wonderful Victorian flats by subdividing living rooms with walls along the length to overload flats with two extra bedrooms and ruining corncies and fireplaces in the process. Bedrooms end up above and below living rooms and the inevitable noise conflicts follow.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/protect-historic-character-of-gillespie-crescent.html
Repair grants and VAT zero rating your flat alterations (senistive ones that is) are other benefits of being Listed. If Marchmont Crescent and Warrender Park Crescent are B Listed . . . why isn't our wonderful street!
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Saturday, 14 June 2008
Thursday, 12 June 2008
What's so great about Gillespie Crescent? (click here for comments)
Do you, like us, think Gillespie Crescent is a special street? Not just because it is a quiet oasis near the centre of Edinburgh, or because of its mature broadleaf trees, but because its a street of linked up Victorian buildings that haven't been spoilt by development.
We think that the attractive character of our street is threatened by insensitive developments. A couple of landlord owners have subdivided their bay windowed living rooms and plasterboarded the ceilings below the cornice, to form more bedrooms.
All the other Victorian Crescents in Edinburgh have Listed protected status which would prevent this from happening - Warrander Park Crescent, Marchmont Crescent, Grosvenor Crescent, Landsdale Crescent are all B Listed and Gardners Cresent, Atholl Crescent, Randoph Crecent are A Listed.
Other advantages to listing include availability of grants and VAT zero rating on most alterations. This sort of room subdivision is attractive to some irresponsible HMO landlords as it squeezes more bedrooms into flats. Listing should slow down this tide.
Please sign up to our petition to Historic Scotland by adding your comment and help get our street listed ! Follow this link and sign our online petition.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/protect-historic-character-of-gillespie-crescent.html
(Following a recent stair meeting, a group of neighbours resolved to start this blog that could be a way of petitioning for Listed status and also be a forum for discussion and advice about HMO applications. We hope that many benefits will follow from linking up residents in our wonderful street.)
We think that the attractive character of our street is threatened by insensitive developments. A couple of landlord owners have subdivided their bay windowed living rooms and plasterboarded the ceilings below the cornice, to form more bedrooms.
All the other Victorian Crescents in Edinburgh have Listed protected status which would prevent this from happening - Warrander Park Crescent, Marchmont Crescent, Grosvenor Crescent, Landsdale Crescent are all B Listed and Gardners Cresent, Atholl Crescent, Randoph Crecent are A Listed.
Other advantages to listing include availability of grants and VAT zero rating on most alterations. This sort of room subdivision is attractive to some irresponsible HMO landlords as it squeezes more bedrooms into flats. Listing should slow down this tide.
Please sign up to our petition to Historic Scotland by adding your comment and help get our street listed ! Follow this link and sign our online petition.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/protect-historic-character-of-gillespie-crescent.html
(Following a recent stair meeting, a group of neighbours resolved to start this blog that could be a way of petitioning for Listed status and also be a forum for discussion and advice about HMO applications. We hope that many benefits will follow from linking up residents in our wonderful street.)
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