Tag: Royal High School
Royal High School – trust ditches music school plan
The former Royal High School will not be used as a site for St Mary's Music School in a major change to plans by the Royal High School Preservation Trust.The trust has announced...
Speaker’s Chair gifted to National Museums Scotland for posterity
If the 1979 devolution referendum on 1 March that year had voted for separation from the rest of the UK, Scotland's history would have been very different.The Royal High School Building at the...
Richard Murphy on ‘unlocking’ the Old Royal High School
Since the school vacated the building in 1968, finding a new use for the Old Royal High School building on Calton Hill has been a major subject of public controversy. Widely seen by architectural historians as...
Royal High to be leased to music school
As anticipated in the papers published for the council's Finance & Resources committee last week, the council has agreed on Thursday to lease the former Royal High building to the Royal High School Preservation...
New plans for Music School to be considered by the council
The former Royal High School at the foot of Calton Hill has been the subject of legal and planning wrangles for some years, and has been empty for more than half a century. It...
Council to discuss meanwhile uses of the Royal High School behind closed doors
All of the written deputations for Thursday's Finance & Resources committee are centred around one matter - the discussion of what the City of Edinburgh Council might do with the former Royal High School.This...
Royal High School – Music school ‘ready to begin work immediately’ following planning decision
The Royal High School has been empty for over half a century, and will remain so for a little while longer. Scottish Ministers have rejected permission to Duddingston House Properties and Urbanist Hotels who...
Royal High School Pipe Band play a tribute for the NHS
The Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust (SSPBT) ran a lockdown competition along with the Red Hot Chilli Pipers for school pupils and a couple of bands from the Royal High School entered.It was...
The Royal High School charity walk takes place tomorrow
The Royal High School - Charity walk to raise £10k for cancer
50 years ago this year, in 1968 the Royal High School moved from the site at Regent Road into purpose-built accommodation tucked away...
Council rejects Hotel plan for Royal High School
The council's planning committee decided today to turn down an application to convert the A-listed former Royal High School into a luxury hotel.The previous application for a 147 room hotel complete with side 'wings'...
One Voice Rally held for The Old Royal High School
A rallying call for two of Scotland’s national treasures to come together took place this week when three of those behind the Perfect Harmony campaign addressed a musical “One Voice” Rally at Edinburgh’s Canongate...
Perfect Harmony at St Mary’s Music School
Keir Bloomer will spearhead campaign to establish St Mary’s Music School as a centre for youth music for pupils from throughout Scotland Leading Scots educationist Keir Bloomer has become an official ambassador for the Perfect...
Mother Tongue Other Tongue
Linguistic Award for young Edinburgh Poets The multilingual talents of budding young poets from two Edinburgh schools were celebrated at a prestigious award ceremony in Glasgow.Students from The Royal High School and George Heriot’s used...
St Mary’s Music School have designs on the Royal High
The decision by the council on plans to form a five star hotel in the former Royal High School building will be made tomorrow Thursday 17 December. The application has been subject to criticism and...
Comment – Kevin Buckle of Avalanche has his say on the former Royal High...
by Kevin Buckle of Avalanche RecordsKevin argues that the plans for using the former school as a hotel will bring more benefits for arts and culture in the capital. The council's planning committee is...
Royal High School – enter St Mary’s Music School stage left
Notwithstanding the fact that plans to revamp the Royal High School into a luxury hotel are at an advanced stage, and the developer has a legal arrangement with the council, moves are still being...
Plans for the Royal High School on public view today
The development of the former Royal High School building on Regent Road has attracted much comment in Edinburgh and today is your final chance to go and see the public exhibition of the proposals...
Support shown for Royal High development
According to the architects leading the redevelopment plans for the Royal High School, members of the public have expressed clear support for proposals to turn Edinburgh’s old Royal High School into a world-class hotel...
Council sets deadline for Royal High
The Council's Finance Committee agreed this morning to allow the developer DHP until the end of December to enter into a legal agreement to develop the former Royal High School building on Calton Hill....
