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2025

Calton Hill Conservation Trust Deputation to the City of Edinburgh Culture & Communities Committee, 27 February 2025

Observations on the litter/waste bins on Calton Hill as of 18 March 2025, Gerry Wells, Calton Hill Conservation Trust

Park life: How a volunteer army helped make our green spaces the best in Britain: Ilona Amos, The Inquirer, 20 March 2025 

Report on the removal of small trees and shrubs, Calton Hill Conservation Trust, 7 April 2025

Accounts for the Friends of Calton Hill, later Calton Hill Conservation Trust, for 1 January 2024 to 14 August 2024, examined 23 April 2025

Annual General Meeting (AGM) Draft Minutes, 17 May 2025

Calton Hill Conservation Trust constitution revised at the AGM on 17 May 2025

The First Panorama: Edinburgh 1788, National Records of Scotland, 26 May 2025

Accounts for the Calton Hill Conservation Trust, from 15 August 2024 to 31 March 2025, examined 24 June 2025

Invertebrate Assessment of Calton Hill, Edinburgh, August 2025

Erosion emergency on Calton Hill, September 2025

Historic Paths of Calton Hill, September 2025

Calton Hill Conservation Trust Deputation to the City of Edinburgh Culture & Communities Committee, 2 October 2025

Agenda for the Special Members’ Meeting, 1 November 2025

Are the Capital’s green spaces as green as they used to be? As volunteers returf one city park, blaming the council for dragging its feet – how big a problem is erosion in Edinburgh? Sarah McArthur, The Inquirer, 16 October 2025

‘Mapping Biodiversity on Calton Hill’, presentation at the Edinburgh Green Spaces Forum, 22 October 2025

Special Members’ Meeting Draft Minutes, 1 November 2025

Calton Hill Conservation Trust Standing Orders, 1 November 2025

Press release: City of Edinburgh Council Culture & Communities Committee, ‘Motion by Councillor McFarlane – Grant Funding for ‘Friends of’ and Trusts’, 5 December 2025

Calton Hill Conservation Trust Trustees Annual Report for OSCR, for the period 15 August 2024 to 31 March 2025, submitted 16 December 2025

2024

Tree Planting Guideline for Calton Hill — using native ‘pioneer’ species, 7 January 2024

Calton Hill helped shape Edinburgh’s identity, but now ‘it is neglected’: Dramatic erosion after surge in visitors sparks warning over much-loved landmark, Sarah McArthur, The Inquirer, 13 January 2024 

Minutes of the Calton Hill Task Group & the Friends of Calton Hill Committee: January 2023 to May 2024

Office bearers and committee nomination form, 2024

Calton Hill Conservation Trust AGM, 18 May 2024, minutes

Report on invertebrate life on Calton Hill, following the walk on 25 May 2024

Statement by Calton Hill Conservation Trust on the Calton Hill Drive access barrier, 10 July 2024

Calton Hill Firework Control Zone, City of Edinburgh Council, October 2024

Vegetation Survey of Calton Hill, Edinburgh in October 2024, Ben Averis (November 2024)

Old and New Towns of Edinburgh: Calton Hill: A Breton, M Comer & CM Guerra (MSc in Architectural Conservation 2024-25, University of Edinburgh, November 2024)

Calton Hill Conservation Trust Deputation to the City of Edinburgh Culture & Communities Committee, 5 December 2024

Report on the Calton Hill Firework Control 1-10 November 2024, by Calton Hill Conservation Trust

Historic to 2023

Scottish Pioneers of the Greek Revival, The Scottish Georgian Society, ISBN 0 950 03921 7, 1984

Calton Hill: A submission to the Millennium Commission: The City of Edinburgh District Council, 29 November 1995

Edinburgh’s Acropolis: A future for Calton Hill, Calton Hill Working Party: Steering Group, March 1996

The Calton Hill: A review: Dr John Byrom, The Cockburn Association, November 1996

Calton Hill Conservation Plan, August 1999

Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004

Calton Hill Stair Renewal: Watching Brief Report: AOC Archaeology Group project no. 20862 by Sarah Lynchehaun, June 2008

Map of Arthur’s Seat Volcano Site of Special Scientific Interest Site Code 91, Scottish Natural Heritage, 2010

City Observatory Dome: Plans, Sections and Elevations, 3 April 2012

City Observatory Temporary Buildings: Site, Location and Floor Plans Principal Elevations, 2 August 2012

Calton Hill External Services Map A0372, 7 November 2012

Map of Proposed Route of New Water Main to City Observatory and Nelson Monument, circa 2012-2013

Herman Lyon’s Mausoleum, Calton Hill, Edinburgh: Historic Building Survey Report (AOC, 2013)

Nelson Monument, Calton Hill, Edinburgh: Archaeological evaluation for City of Edinburgh Council, September 2016 Addyman Archaeology Job No. 2235, by Kenneth Macfadyen

Calton Hill Management Plan, 2017

Former Friends of Calton Hill constitution, 9 February 2023

Office bearers and committee nomination form, 2023

Membership Survey result, April/May 2023

Standing Orders, 24 June 2023

AGM minutes, 24 June 2023

Report on bird life on Calton Hill, following the walk on 10 September 2023

Report on plant life on Calton Hill, following the walk on 10 September 2023

Report on invertebrate life on Calton Hill, following the walk on 10 September 2023

Erosion on Calton Hill: Including aerial photographs, 1996 to 2023

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Recent Posts

  • Edinburgh University Dirty Weekenders volunteers on Calton Hill, 8 February 2026
  • Calton Hill Archaeology Project launched by Calton Hill Conservation Trust and Headland Archaeology, January 2026
  • Deputation to City of Edinburgh Council, 5 February 2026, to support the Motion ’Defibrillators: Saving Lives’
  • Lost turf: grass restored by returfing and reseeding in May 2025 has now deteriorated to the point where it is irrecoverable
  • Defibrillator heart restarter to be installed on Calton Hill

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