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Princes Street

Re-entering the 'design fray' for Princes Street

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Dec 17, 2025
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EDINBURGH is going through one of its cyclical Princes Street ‘conversations’ - fruitless, in my time - unless, in a negative way, you count the fear of development and the flight of retail from the street caused by the creation of the Big Mall at the St James Quarter.

Or, positively, if you include the tram, and the associated new ways we value travel …

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