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Ambitious plans to rejuvenate Fountainbridge could see 400 new homes built over the next five years – as well as shops, offices and a public square.
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http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/fountainbridge-plan-for-400-new-homes-1-3806844
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"Fountainbridge plan for 400 new homes"
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Outline planning app now online - https://goo.gl/4RrXIu
STV article - http://edinburgh.stv.tv/articles/1323454-grosvenor-plans-hundreds-of-private-rent-flats-for-springside-development/
"Instead of selling them all individually to private owners, the firm behind the plans intends to rent 141 of the flats directly to tenants."
I'm betting this is a way to reduce the amount of affordable housing required and also reduce the level of section 75 funding.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Perhaps these developers must know something that the developers of Springside or Quartermile didn't when they too where planning their own exclusive, high-end "apartment" gated communities. But they've identified a "gap" that isn't currently being served, as apparently there's a dire shortage of overpriced plasterboard boxes with french windows on the 5th floor for rent in Edinburgh.
Or perhaps there's good money to be made in building another half-empty yuppie flat ghetto? Obviously they're far cleverer than everyone else so we can only guess.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Somehow got to me on Facebook, the developers advert I guess, these flats could feature a rooftop bar and a residents lounge. Cockamamie claptrap.
Posted 10 years ago # -
A pub on your roof. How lovely.
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