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Good use of some wasted land, and Dalry and Fountainbridge area will benefit from student footfall
Good use of some wasted land, and Dalry and Fountainbridge area will benefit from student footfall
The Fountainbridge area is a very rare opportunity to build on a site of significant scale in the heart of the city - not only that, the canal provides a central feature and some unique opportunities.In that case I’d ask what it is you’d propose instead? There’s a housing shortage and we have to build more homes. This is firmly background stuff in terms of design but I’d position it in the tradition of mass produced flatted blocks that Scotland has been building for centuries - and as has been the case for centuries some compromises over quantity (and often quality) of private space might be made, but it can equally create densely populated, liveable neighbourhoods.
Again, no real evidence that any of these buildings are being poorly built - cheaply built perhaps in terms of material spec and "interesting features" but that doesn't automatically mean they'll be falling down in 50 years. Tenements were cheap mass produced housing and the ones that have been looked after haven't been knocked down.The Fountainbridge area is a very rare opportunity to build on a site of significant scale in the heart of the city - not only that, the canal provides a central feature and some unique opportunities.
We can look at the New Town, the Old Town, the West End - even the Victorian developments on the edges of the city centre. Compare and contrast with the proposed featureless blocks that make up most of the Fountainbridge plan.
If you want to make it solely about housing, that's one perspective. But this is really nothing to do with density, which can be accommodated in a far less depressing way - Leith Walk may not all have high quality building, but it is the most densely populated part of Scotland and managed to accommodate that without resorting to... well, this.
This part of the city could attract visitors and showcase modern Scotland near our World Heritage Site, becoming another major city district - but one that adds variety and difference. This will not. But it'd be daft to assume we're building for anything other than easy profit and temporary gap-filling: what's going up here will be unlikely to survive 50 years before being flattened. Let's hope they can do a bit better then.
Recommended for approval. Decision due 25th November.As per ElectricityWon'tHurt's link above - ISA's newly submitted application is for 74 student flats replacing the consented 20-home development, with the previous commercial unit replaced with a reception & student amenity space. Minor changes to the elevation.
20/02976/FUL | Demolition of existing buildings and erection of student residential development with associated landscaping. | 7 Lower Gilmore Place Edinburgh
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Recommended for approval. Decision due 25th November.
As a student, I approve this message.What is the issue? I'd love someone to explain it.
- The numbers of student flats built are still utterly dwarfed by the scale of non student housing built and being built in the immediate area - and indeed across the whole city.
- It means less students in random rented tenement and other flats, freeing up space in the private rented sector for so called residents.
- The greater density of purpose built student accommodation means you have many more students occupying the same building footprint that a private or social build would. It's a really efficient way for 'residents' not to have to live in the same stairwell as 000's of students if that is really important to you.
- Students are by and large good tenants with near enough nil contribution to the crime rate and low anti-sociability, not least than when in purpose built accomodation.
- Edinburgh is a student city with loads of Unis and colleges - and they're 'residents' as much as anyone else
I agree, assuming the planing dept, Unis and developers have data on the current and future student population and an eye on a saturation point. But a change is coming. Slowly but inevitably. The current pandemic has shown an alternative approach that is gaining traction around the world.What is the issue? I'd love someone to explain it.
- The numbers of student flats built are still utterly dwarfed by the scale of non student housing built and being built in the immediate area - and indeed across the whole city.
- It means less students in random rented tenement and other flats, freeing up space in the private rented sector for so called residents.
- The greater density of purpose built student accommodation means you have many more students occupying the same building footprint that a private or social build would. It's a really efficient way for 'residents' not to have to live in the same stairwell as 000's of students if that is really important to you.
- Students are by and large good tenants with near enough nil contribution to the crime rate and low anti-sociability, not least than when in purpose built accomodation.
- Edinburgh is a student city with loads of Unis and colleges - and they're 'residents' as much as anyone else
I actually 'quite' like it. Windows are a bit small but it's quite well mannered and kinda fits the slightly warehousy canalside feel of FountainbridgeNew young offenders institute in Fountainbridge.
Vastint really need to have a word with themselves. Their 'architects' are clearly more used to the rarefied context of the highways, byways and approaches to airports than to dense city fabric. If one were to say it is better than Moxy at High St, Glasgow, it serves only to reaffirm from what a low base quality they're operating.
You guys got brick albeit horribly efflorescent.
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