Calls to make more of NHS eyesore site

A CITY eyesore is to be overhauled with a development of 81 new homes, amid objections the site is being under-used and could accommodate more properties.

Cala Management has been given the go-ahead to develop 68 houses and 13 flats on the site of the former Trinity Park House NHS complex on South Trinity Road.

However, the Cockburn Association, which has recently fought plans for a 17-storey hotel at Haymarket, a 100-metre chimney at the Leith Docks biomass plant and two new buildings on the site of Edinburgh University's Moray House campus, has accused it of "underdevelopment" and called for "greater height" to the buildings.

Blueprints for a mix of "high-quality semi-detached, terraced and mews houses", along with apartments, were approved by city planners last week.