{"id":663154,"date":"2025-12-30T20:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/663154\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T20:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:01:15","slug":"edinburgh-airspace-closed-to-unmanned-aircraft-for-hogmanay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/663154\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh airspace closed to &#8216;unmanned aircraft&#8217; for Hogmanay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/police-scotland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Scotland<\/a>: \u201cIt will be an offence for any unmanned aircraft to fly below 2,000ft above sea level within one nautical mile of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/edinburgh-castle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh Castle<\/a>.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Drones will be banned from Edinburgh city centre. (Image: Getty Images)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Restrictions include the use of drones, and covers all of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/local-news\/edinburgh-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh<\/a>\u2019s Old Town, as well as the West End and Haymarket neighborhoods, Calton Hill, and some of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/25588615.thousands-pack-holyrood-park-samhuinn-fire-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holyrood Park<\/a>.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Police Scotland added: \u201cAs part of the policing operation for Edinburgh Hogmanay Festival a temporary airspace restriction will be in place covering the city centre between 6pm on Wednesday, 31 December, 2025, and 2am on Thursday, 1 January, 2026.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cDrone Pilots are encouraged to check NOTAM information and Drone Safety Map before flying.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A series of events will be held on New Year\u2019s Eve across Edinburgh city centre.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Concert in the Gardens is set to begin at 8pm with Lucia &amp; The Best Boys, followed by Hamish Hawk at 10pm.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Headliners Wet Leg will play their first set at 11.10pm.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Read more:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Following the firework display at midnight, the band will return to the stage and play until 1am.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tickets start at \u00a373.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Meanwhile, the city\u2019s renowned Hogmanay Street Party will be taking place along Princes Street featuring &#8220;DJ\u2019s, Giant Screens, International Street <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/theatre\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theatre<\/a>, Pipers, Drummers and funfair attractions&#8221;.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tickets for the street party, which also starts at 8pm, begin at \u00a333.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Police Scotland: \u201cIt will be an offence for any unmanned aircraft to fly below 2,000ft above&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-663154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115810302853316728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663154","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=663154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}