Wester Hailes

Category

Library Item

Item no

12261

Title

Wester Hailes

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1971

Size

14 x 20 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Note of architects who worked on project given below item:
'Sir Frank Mears and partners architects and planning consultants. City Architect Brian Annable Dip Arch (Leics) ARIBA'

Note on reverse of item reads:
'City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh, Wester Hailes - Phase 6, 130 flats and 50 maisonettes.
Building work commenced in March 1970, and was completed towards the end of 1971 ahead of programme.
It is a small part of a large planned community ultimately comprising 16,000 people, complete with recreation grounds, parks, playgrounds, three churches, four schools, community buildings, and a major shopping centre.
A comprehensive footpath system planned for the convenient use of the community is planned to be independent of the modern traffic routes which are designed to accommodate one car for every household in the future, and incorporates a major section of the outer ring road which passes generally to the west of the community.
The gross density of the whole area is approximately 60 persons to the acre and the net densities vary between 75 and 150 persons to the acre.
There are no buildings in excess of nine storeys and a very large proportion of the houses are walk up flats, maisonettes and cottages.
Phase 6 is like the other sub divisions of the whole area. It has been given its own distinctive colour treatment and design of open spaces and parking areas. This part of the area, like most others, has a direct access to the main pedestrian way, which is planned to run through the length of the scheme for over a mile in distance, and located to provide spectacular views of the city, the Forth, the Pentlands, and the hills around Edinburgh.
The general exclusion of drying areas at ground level has left considerable scope for landscape treatment and planting, and to take full advantage of this the houses subject to the contour of the ground are arranged in irregular squares and open spaces.'

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