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Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh Live
National
James Delaney

Popular Edinburgh bar saved from student flat closure applies for expansion

A popular Edinburgh bar and music venue once threatened with extinction by a hotel and student flats complex has launched a bid to expand.

Leith Depot was at the centre of a community storm in 2018 when property firm Drum unveiled plans to bulldoze its home in a former shopping strip to make way for the development.

The move gave rise to the Save Leith Walk campaign, who eventually forced the developer back to the drawing board after a planning appeal was dismissed by the Scottish Government more than a year later.

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