diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e74f516fc6..81227615c7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
   - Bug fixes:
     - `CentreOfRotationCorrector.image_sharpness` data is now correctly smoothed to reduce aliasing artefacts and improve robustness. (#2202)
     - `PaganinProcessor` now correctly applies scaling with magnification for cone-beam geometry (#2225)
+    - `cilacc` path lookup no longer broken for editable installations (#2257)
     - update `version.py` to use `importlib` & fix tagless installation #2255 (#2269)
   - Dependencies:
     - olefile and dxchange are optional dependencies, instead of required (#2209)
diff --git a/Wrappers/Python/cil/framework/cilacc.py b/Wrappers/Python/cil/framework/cilacc.py
index 367cfbeec2..32078f03cc 100644
--- a/Wrappers/Python/cil/framework/cilacc.py
+++ b/Wrappers/Python/cil/framework/cilacc.py
@@ -17,10 +17,11 @@
 # CIL Developers, listed at: https://github.com/TomographicImaging/CIL/blob/master/NOTICE.txt
 # Joshua DM Hellier (University of Manchester) [refactorer]
 import ctypes
-from pathlib import Path
+from importlib.metadata import distribution
 
 try:
-    cilacc_path = next((Path(__file__).parent.parent / 'lib').resolve().glob("*cilacc.*"))
+    dist = distribution("cil").locate_file("cil/lib")
+    cilacc_path = next(dist.glob("*cilacc.*"))
 except StopIteration:
     raise FileNotFoundError("cilacc library not found")
 cilacc = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary(str(cilacc_path))