Transition Edinburgh South (TES) have run the walled garden next to Gracemount Mansion in the Liberton area of Edinburgh as a community green space for many years. The adjacent stables building has been a mothballed shell for a similar amount of time. When Edinburgh City Council proposed they let the Stables to TES, the potential benefit to the local community was immediately evident.

Eala provided TES with a Building Passport and Feasibility Study documenting the current condition of the building as well as options for how it could be refurbished and brought back into use. Like all similar organisations, TES are unlikely to find significant capital funding, so the options presented were on a phased basis, aligning the building condition, business case, and community need. The exercise involved us working alongside Community Enterprise and Narro engineers.

TES are currently fund-raising to take the first steps to get the building open and serving their community.