{"id":364016,"date":"2025-08-22T07:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T07:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364016\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T07:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T07:02:11","slug":"cruden-secures-permission-for-edinburgh-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364016\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruden secures permission for Edinburgh development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"mfp-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/assets\/news_articles\/2025\/08\/1755841767_cgi-fernieside-gardens-edinburgh.jpg\" title=\"CGI of Fernieside Gardens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/750x500_top_1755841767_cgi-fernieside-gardens-edinburgh.jpg\" alt=\"CGI of Fernieside Gardens\" class=\"captioned-image__image responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nCGI of Fernieside Gardens<\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh City Council has approved Crudeb\u2019s plans to convert the former St John Vianney\u2019s Roman Catholic church site at 40 Fernieside Gardens, built in the 1950s, into 35 residential apartments.<\/p>\n<p>The new development will comprise two flatted blocks of three to four storeys, offering a mix of 17 one-bedroom, 11 two-bedroom and seven three-bedroom homes. <\/p>\n<p>Sustainability features include zero-emission heating, photovoltaic solar panels and high levels of insulation. <\/p>\n<p>Work on Fernieside Gardens is expected to begin later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Cruden Homes managing director Fraser Lynes said: \u201cThis development breathes new life into a redundant, brownfield site by placing sustainable communities and green infrastructure at its heart. It\u2019s another example of how thoughtful design can support Edinburgh\u2019s net-zero ambitions while meeting the critical need for affordable housing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"margin-top--md margin-bottom--md\"><b>Got a story?<\/b> Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/news\/view\/mailto:news@theconstructionindex.co.uk?subject=News%20Story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news@theconstructionindex.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CGI of Fernieside Gardens Edinburgh City Council has approved Crudeb\u2019s plans to convert the former St John Vianney\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,33973,41585,5168,41582,41583,41584,41581,41580,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-364016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-building","10":"tag-civil-engineering","11":"tag-construction","12":"tag-construction-companies","13":"tag-construction-contractors","14":"tag-construction-contracts","15":"tag-construction-jobs","16":"tag-construction-news","17":"tag-edinburgh","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-scotland","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115071139575542225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}