Window Boxes

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 01 Jun 2004, 21:36

Does anyone know whether Edinburgh has regulations covering installation of window boxes on upper-floor windows? I've searched the council web site without success...

Surrealist · Post by **Surrealist** » 02 Jun 2004, 10:37

There's a great cartoon in the latest Private Eye of someone clutching a copy of "The Modern Gardener", having just covered their window box with decking....

Kirstielove · Post by **Kirstielove** » 02 Jun 2004, 13:45

Provided that you don't want to attach the boxes to the outside walls the council doesn't have any regulations with regard to window boxes and upper floors!

Kirstie

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 02 Jun 2004, 13:57

Best to make sure they are well secured though. A few years back a gale caused one of our heavy concrete window boxes to crash down onto the path below. Fortunately no-one was hurt, and it was a lesson learned.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 02 Jun 2004, 16:50

Thank you... I intend securing them to the window frame, but read somewhere that some councils have fairly specific planning regulations.

scossie5 · Post by **scossie5** » 03 Jun 2004, 17:19

Check your listing status. There have been occasions where people were asked to remove windowboxes by Historic Scotland. As per previous email it was all in the fixings (preserving historic fabric) - and sometimes re the 'streetscape' especially if in a conservation area.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 03 Jun 2004, 18:40

Good point. I'm in a conservation area.

Thank you.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 03 Jun 2004, 18:46

No, I think you will find you are in a conversation area.

Surrealist · Post by **Surrealist** » 03 Jun 2004, 18:48

that joke made the plants in my window box wilt

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 03 Jun 2004, 18:52

I had to read that three times before I spotted the difference. Good one, Bob.

Mimpty · Post by **Mimpty** » 09 Jun 2004, 13:42

Hello Alex,
Re the above. The short answer appears to be "no" to window boxes and hanging baskets in conservation areas.

There are Council Planning Dept guidelines which advise discouraging these items as they were not common to towns in the past. The climate "militated against it" Proposals to fix planting boxes etc are to be "firmly resisted".

This is a pity as I too would have liked window boxes but dare not without securing them as I am on the 1st floor. However, given the colours some businesses manage to paint their buildings/ double glazed window styles that appear without apparent reprisal I don't think you would have anything to fear.

Hope this helps.

Talk Porty ~ Portobello

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