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Flat 3 3 Merchant Street Old Town Edinburgh EH1 2QD

26/00668/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 3 March 2026

Council decision: Permission is not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

To install custom built secondary glazing units on all 7 windows and a defunct extractor fan will be removed from a single pane and restored to plain glass.

Received
23 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
No Ward Number
  1. Received23 Feb
  2. Validated23 Feb
  3. Consult.16 Mar
  4. Target22 Apr
  5. Decided3 Mar

Decided in 8 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a heritage application for window replacement at Flat 3 3 Merchant Street Old Town Edinburgh EH1 2QD. Edinburgh has handled 1,147 applications of this type. This one was decided in 8 days, 5 weeks quicker than Edinburgh's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 111 applications across No Ward Number. We hold 569 applications in total for the EH1 postcode area.

94% of heritage applications at City of Edinburgh Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
EH1 2QD
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Old Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 February 2026
Last date for comments
16 March 2026
Target decision date
22 April 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
58 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    2 Mar

    Installation of secondary glazing.

    Permission is not requiredListed building consentFiled alongside26/00712/LBC
  2. 2026
    23 Feb

    To install custom built secondary glazing units on all 7 windows and a defunct extractor fan will be removed…

    This applicationApprovedListed building consent26/00668/LBC

Source: Edinburgh

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