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Maps, Outline and Base

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = PJM

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh Development Plan: St James Square (Leith Street etc) Comprehensive Development Area - Programme map for Comprehensive Development Area map no 5 (amended), c1963

 Item
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/1.8.15
Scope and Contents

Linen backed copy of 1:1250 Ordnance Survey Plan (65cm x 70cm), with local amendments, overlaid with phasing boundaries for the St James Square (Leith Street etc) Comprehensive Development Area. These were to take place over 20 years. The plan is hand-coloured and plot acreages are given. The hand coloured legend includes total acreages per phase.

Dates: c1963

City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh development plan: University: Nicolson Street Comprehensive Development Area, 1972

 File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/1.8.4
Scope and Contents

Set of 4 coloured manuscript themed plans by the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh overlaid on an Ordnance Survey 1:1250 scale mosaic base map (90cm x 120cm). One is a zoning map with coloured areas indicated for phases 1-4, each phase taking 5 years. One shows the levels of surveys required in certain areas, one shows electoral ward boundaries and one shows compulsory purchase designations in the area, with total acreages.

Dates: 1972

Development of Bristo Square: discussion notes, 1978

 File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/5.2
Scope and Contents This file contains discussion notes by Percy Johnson-Marshall, in his role as planning consultant to the University of Edinburgh. These cover the New Pedestrian Square at McEwan Hall ( 1978) and Lothian Street / Potter Row Realignment ( 1978) . Architectural drawings, maps and landscape plans are also included. Some of...
Dates: 1978

Development of Bristo Square: general administration files, 1976-1980

 File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/5.1
Scope and Contents This file contains the contents of 4 files dealing with the conception, design and development of Bristo Square as part of the University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area (1962). Each file covers an individual year: 1976, 1978, 1979 and 1980. There is no file for 1977. The contents include draft and finished plans, architectural drawings, scenic drawings, reports and plans for an ideas competition. Detailed estimates for the cost of the project are included. Relevant University of...
Dates: 1976-1980

Edinburgh South Side District Plan: papers and correspondence, 1973-1975

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/C/1.1
Scope and Contents

Mixed file of papers relating to Percy Johnson-Marshall's employment as planning consultant to the Corporation of Edinburgh South Side District Plan, with assistance from some staff of Percy-Johnson Marshall & Associates. The file contains minutes of meetings, hand-written notes about meetings, reports, both typescript and manuscript, correspondence, plans and working practice guidelines.

Dates: 1973-1975

Edinburgh South Side District Plan: papers and correspondence, 1973-1980

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/C/1
Scope and Contents

Edinburgh South Side District Plan: papers and correspondence Subseries consists of:


  1. Edinburgh South Side District Plan: papers and correspondence (1973-1975)
  2. Edinburgh South Side District Plan: general correspondence (1974-1980)
Dates: 1973-1980

Edinburgh South Side District Plan: reports by Percy Johnson-Marshall and Percy Johnson-Marshall Associates, 1973-1975

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/C/2.1
Scope and Contents This file contains 9 reports concerning the Edinburgh South Side District Plan written by either Percy Johnson-Marshall or staff at Percy Johnson-Marshall & Associates. The reports look at: the place of the university in the city as a whole, the relationship between the University of Edinburgh and the rest of the south side, land use surveys and possible development plans for the Nicolson Street area of the city and a 1971 census household analysis of the south side. A file of papers...
Dates: 1973-1975

Final project - Newcastle-under-Lyme planning project, 1935-1938

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Identifier: PJM/UOL/B/3
Scope and Contents City planning maps, plans and studies by Percy Johnson-Marshall, undertaken whilst a student studying for the Certificate in Civic Design at the University of Liverpool, for his final project entitled "Newcastle-under-Lyme planning project". This project was submitted as the Town Planning Institute final exam. There are 4 plans: one detail (48cm x 48cm), one land-use plan, overlaid on an Ordnance Survey 6 inch to 1 mile plan with accompanying legend, and a blank Ordnance Survey plan at 6...
Dates: 1935-1938

Lothian Street / Potterrow realignment, 1979

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/5.5.2
Scope and Contents 3 copy plans, on paper, (85cm x 115cm) showing the proposed road realignment of Lothian Street and Potterrow, in Edinburgh, to make way for the construction of Bristo Square. One plan shows the road alignment and associated banking and bridgework overlain on an Ordnance Survey 1:1250 plan. This also shows the electricity supply in the area overlaid. The other 2 plans are at 1:500 scale show different details of layout, measurements, street furniture etc. One of these plans is hand...
Dates: 1979

Lothian Street / Potterrow realignment, 1978

 File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/5.5.3
Scope and Contents Mixed collection of working drawings and plans (maximum dimension 86cm x 122cm) depicting the creation of Bristo Square in Edinburgh. There is a 3-dimensional pencil drawing, on tracing paper, of an oblique bird's eye view of the square and its adjacent buildings. 2 coloured (in thick felt-tip pen) paper stylised manuscript plans of the area. The first shows the proposed surface of the square, the second shows the site-lines around the area of the square. There are 2 sheets of small-scale...
Dates: 1978