Dalry Town Centre and Roseburn

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The City Council write (below) about Dalry roadworks and closures from December 2025 for 3 months. (Note: the image here refers to a wider project, not these works). This is combining scheduled works with some of the improvements proposed in the wider Dalry Living Well Project, which they say has received Transport Scotland funding for the financial year 25/26. You can read below about a mixed response to the consultation on this project, and about Murrayfield Community Council's concerns about it re-routing more traffic through Roseburn.

On 3 November 2025, the City Council writes:

"The Council is planning road improvement works in parts of Dalry Road, Caledonian Road, Caledonian Crescent, Caledonian Place, Orwell Place and Orwell Terrace this winter.

To minimise disruption, we are combining scheduled maintenance on these streets with improvements that were proposed as part of the Dalry – Living Well Locally project, which will improve walking and wheeling in this area.

Our plans are to:

• resurface roads

• remove street clutter

• make crossing the road safer and easier for pedestrians with new continuous footways and raised tables.

During these works we will only close one road at a time and where possible will retain parking and loading bays.

Construction is planned to start in December, and is expected to last around 3 months.

You can find out more on the Dalry Town Centre web page: https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/dalrytowncentre "

Previously:

[05-10-2024] A consultation on the Dalry Town Centre proposals is open until the 26 June 2024. The proposal page is here and the consultation is here. One aspect is "a proposed filter for cycles, buses and taxis just south of the Haymarket junction, operating between 7am and 7pm". Other traffic to and from the city would use alternative routes, including Wester Coates/Roseburn Terrace and Russell Road.

At the Murrayfield Community Council meeting of 16 April 2024, concerns were raised from the floor that this amounted to a diversion of traffic through Roseburn.

[11-04-2025] Earlier in the year City of Edinburgh Council published the outcomes of a consultation on proposals that included daytime traffic redirection from Dalry to alternative routes, including Wester Coates/Roseburn Terrace and Russell Road. The summary of 767 consultation responses included that:

• responses were relatively balanced overall (49% opposed and 46% in favour)

• views in favour tended to be among people who lived inside the proposal zone, and those who use active or public transport

• the opposing views were more likely to be from those who live outside the area, and were in large part concerned with traffic affecting areas outside the proposal zone (though there was also concern about effects on residential streets within the zone)

One of the next steps is to investigate "the impact that a traffic filter at Haymarket would have on local traffic and deliveries, and how this might affect traffic outside the project area."

There were other aspects of the proposals, including for the area between West End Place and Tynecastle High School, and regarding the Dalry Swim Centre. Check the link above for the full story.

[Sources: links in text & minutes of meeting 26 April 2024; City of Edinburgh Council correspondence 03 Nov 2025]

[Image credit: City of Edinburgh Council]