Edinburgh Council has now published a draft plan, setting out options on how the city could grow and develop by 2030.
This is important for Kirkliston as it does, for the first time, include the option of taking the land to the east of village out of the greenbelt. This would then allow the kind of 2,000 home development (doubling the size of the village) suggested recently by Miller Homes.
This document will go before the planning committee next week before a public consultation.
It’s important to say that this is just one option in the paper. There is another option which would see development focused only on brownfield sites nearer the city centre.
We need to see what the committee does with the draft plan next week. However, presuming the paper and the options goes out to public consultation then it will be vital for local people in Kirkliston to make their views known.
We’ll make sure to post more details once the consultation is live.
Meanwhile, you can read the whole report here (pages 39, 45-47 are most relevant).