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1. West Edinburgh is broadly the area encompassing the Sighthill, South Gyle and Edinburgh Park employment areas, the Gyle Centre, and the A8 Corridor from Gogar to Newbridge including the Airport and land between the Airport and the A8 as well as land south of the A8 from the Royal Bank of Scotland develpment to the Ratho Station area.
2. (i) West Edinburgh Property Market Update 2006 (ii) Edinburgh Airport Master Plan (July 2006) (iii) RHASS relocation feasibility study (iv) Transport Model (v) Sustainable Development Framework for the Gogar Burn (vi) Strategic Environmental Assessment.
3. West Edinburgh was the first choice for the Royal Bank of Scotland to establish its global headquarters. The bank is the second largest in the United Kingdom and ranks fifth in the world.
4. International business development is used throughout this document to refer to development for corporate global, European or UK headquarters of enterprises operating in more than one country and with 25% or more of their output outside their country of origin, where the choice of location is between West Edinburgh and places outwith Scotland. The development will be expected to be high quality, high value, campus style, single user and with a legal agreement that the development will pertain to that user for at least
10 years.
5. Scottish Planning Policy ( SPP) 21 Green Belts (April 2006) states (paragraph 25) that existing settlements should be explicitly excluded from green belt designations, as should major educational and research uses, major business and industrial operations and airports, to allow for growth and change.
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