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Liberton hospital development

Community engagement timeline

November 2026

Monday 9th November there will be a public meeting with Dem-Master Demolition and the City of Âé¶¹Ó³»­ to discuss the upcoming demolition of Liberton Hospital.

Points discussed will include

  • Traffic Routes
  • Minimising Disruption
  • Site Security & Public Safety
  • Sustainability & Community Benefits

This will be a chance to ask directly any questions and concerns about the demolition process.

If you cannot make this meeting but wish to have any questions answered please contact housingregeneration@edinburgh.gov.uk.

September 2026

Âé¶¹Ó³»­ appointed CCG Ltd as the contractors to build the Liberton Hospital Development through the Housebuilding Framework.

Âé¶¹Ó³»­ appoited Dem-Master Demolition Ltd to remove the asbestos and demolish the Liberton Hospital Buildings.

February 2025

Procurement launch to appoint development partner.

November 2024

Liberton High School workshop This allowed for the children and young people of the area to also give their opinions, thoughts and ideas for the development and wider area.

May 2024

Co-design sessions were held on the 1 and 2 May 2024. They consisted of Development Information Forum (DIF) members and other stakeholder groups. The two identical sessions were held with two groups per session. Each group focused on

  •  green / active travel connections
  • greenspace / play spaces on site
  • other uses outside of residential and massing using a physical site model.

The outcome and model designs from the co-design was shared with the DIF and the themes and other main points collected were discussed.

March / April 2024

Schools workshops were held at

  • Gracemount Primary
  • Gracemount High School
  • St Catherines Primary 
  • the WP Montessori School.

This allowed for the children and young people of the area to also give their opinions, thoughts and ideas for the development and wider area.

January 2024 

Two pop up events at peripatetic Liberton. The first was over the late afternoon and evening at the estates directly beside the development, Malbet and Carnbee Estate. The second was at Gracemount Square.

December 2023

  • In person information gathering events held at Cameron Toll Shopping Center in December 2023. They were held over two days from 10am to 7pm and resulted in over 300 comments from the public and locals who live within the area.
  • A dedicated consultation page on our Consultation Hub was created with the same information.
  • A QR code for the consultation site was created for those in the community to share and use.
  • Our social media platforms were utilized to publicise the consultation site and events.

20 November 2023

First DIF was held.

31 March 2023

The site was purchased from the NHS.