The meeting of LCC on 8 March 2010 was told by representatives of the site owners (Morbaine Ltd) that they plan to redevelop the site to accommodate an 80,000 sq. ft store raised to the first floor to allow parking underneath ('store on stilts'). This will involve demolition, not only of the old GBW buildings beside the river, but also the old B&Q store. They will make new planning application. LCC expressed its concern about traffic complications.

Due to essential drainage work, Kingsknowe Road North will be closed as shown below.
   From Monday 15 February Scottish Water and their contractor (Clancy Docrwa) will be installing a new sewer on Kingsknowe Road North to alleviate flooding issues. The job runs from outside house number 14 to outside house number 50 Kingsknowe Road North.
   The contractors will control traffic on the route under temporary traffic lights until they reach no. 31. They require to tie into the manhole at the dog leg and the dimensions of the road do not allow traffic to flow. They require to close this section of road from number 31 to number 50 for 8 weeks (approximately) to construct this new sewer and build a new combined sewer overflow. 
    Access will be permitted for local residents and emergency vehicle only during the closure period.

There has been a further announcement that Kingsknowe Road North will be closed from Monday 8th March till Sunday 9th May inclusive for work being carried out by Scottish Water

Some Monday to Friday journeys of this bus now run to/from Queen Margaret University. See new timetable (from 14 Feb 2010).

For the purpose of refitting, the Scotmid store in Longstone closed on Friday 12 February and reopened at noon on Friday 19 February. The work involved the complete rearrangement of the store, moving the checkouts and the main door to the ATM end. See planning application 10/00111/FUL, where full details of the refit are shown. The photo below of the new exterior was taken on the day of opening. A ramp has yet to be installed outside the door.

The new school for pupils with moderate learning difficulty, which was recently built in the grounds of Longstone Primary School and with which it shares new sports facilities, was formally opened on 15 Jan 2010. There are about 64 pupils in the school; they are transported by minbuses to and from other parts of Edinburgh. The school has been built to replace Kingsinch School and St Nicholas School.