Housing in Calder Road, Wester Hailes

Category

Library Item

Item no

21321

Title

Housing in Calder Road, Wester Hailes

Description

An example of low-rise housing in Wester Hailes. Twin two storey flats with common open stair cases to the side of each building. The two halves are not quite identical as the land is sloping. Each flat has a small window and a large one. The ground floor flat on the left has a satellite dish on the outside by its large window. The roofs appear flat (but may in fact slope). There is a bare branched tree in the centre of the picture and the area is grassed.

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2009

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Wester Hailes, located on the western periphery of Edinburgh, is a post-war housing estate constructed between 1969 and 1975. On completion, the housing stock comprised a mixture of tenements and high rise. Wester Hailes possessed a declining population with a high proportion of single parent and low income households, high unemployment and a high turnover of tenancies. It was one of four peripheral housing estates chosen to take part in the New Life for Urban Scotland Initiative in 1988. The initiative and the partnerships that they generated were expected to provide valuable lessons on how to tackle the social, economic and environmental problems of large urban distressed areas. The area was extensively redeveloped during the 1990s and 2000s with a number of initiatives outlined by the Wester Hailes Partnership. These initiatives covered housing and environmental improvement, the improvement of social facilities, the provision of training opportunities and the promotion of community activities and involvement. Housing and environmental improvements have had a visible impact with a large number of properties being renovated and others being demolished and replaced with newer 'low-rise' housing.

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Architecture > Architectural features > Stairways

Architecture > Architectural features > Windows

Homes > Residential buildings > Flats

Places > Edinburgh areas > Wester Hailes

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

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