Hailesland Gardens, Wester Hailes

Category

Library Item

Item no

21379

Title

Hailesland Gardens, Wester Hailes

Description

A wide lens shot of a mackerel sky over flats in Hailesland Gardens. The buildings are the background of the picture and are reached at the end of a broad road. A car is parked at the foot of a set of flats.There are bare branched trees on both sides of the picture. Their shadows are cast on the road. A low wall runs at almost right angles to the flats. It may be part of a parking area as the outline of a car roof can be seen from the other side of the wall. There are street lights in several areas.

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 > Walls

Homes > Residential buildings > Flats

Natural phenomena > Weather > Clouds

Places > Edinburgh areas > Wester Hailes

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Plants > Trees > Trees

Transport > Infrastructure > Roads

Transport > Infrastructure > Street lights

Transport > Land > Cars

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