Planning application
25/02931/FUL
17 Boswall Road Edinburgh EH5 3RR
Refurbishes hospice and converts half into a paid wellbeing hub for therapy, beauty and counselling, with profits channelled back into free palliative care. .
Core Details
- Reference
- 25/02931/FUL
- Address
- 17 Boswall Road Edinburgh EH5 3RR
- Status
- Application Granted
- Category
- Change of Use & Conversions
- Impact Scale
- 5/10
Timeline
- Received
- 5 June 2025
- Validated
- 5 June 2025
- Last Scraped
- 4 October 2025
- Record Created
- 11 June 2025
Application Summary
AI Summary
Refurbishes hospice and converts half into a paid wellbeing hub for therapy, beauty and counselling, with profits channelled back into free palliative care. .
Original Description
Refurbishment of a hospice owned building, seeking a partial change of use for 50% of the building. This will deliver health and wellbeing services to the wider community for commercial profit. The new enterprise will offer massage, beauty, holistic therapies, counselling services. This new revenue stream sees profits reinvested directly into hospice palliative care services, enabling continued innovation and delivery of free palliative care onsite, across the community, in people's homes.
Related Applications (2)
Refurbish hospice-owned villa on Boswall Rd, adding single-storey glazed wing and reconfiguring interiors; half becomes fee-paying therapy, beauty and counselling hub funding core palliative care. .
Part of the hospice complex may be refurbished into a not-for-profit holistic therapy and counselling suite, gaining spa-style interiors while leaving the structure intact. .