Designing with People, Designing with the Community, Designing for Sustainability
Further to Assist’s
Edinburgh office’s appointment onto the Rowan Group Framework, we have been
working with Prospect Community Housing on the development of a Masterplan for
a brownfield site at Harvester’s Way in Wester Hailes.
The proposed mixed-use
development includes an NHS Lothian Healthy Living Centre designed by JM
Architects, with flexible commercial space and approximately 100 homes designed
by Assist Architects for Prospect Community Housing. The site, located to the
south of the current Wester Hailes town centre, has lain empty for about 15
years since the demolition of several nine-storey high emergency housing blocks
constructed in the 1950s.
As part of a wider
initiative to mesh the proposed development into the existing neighbourhoods
and the town centre, a series of Placemaking workshops have been held with key
consultants and stakeholders. These workshops have been facilitated by
internationally renowned Urban Quality Consultants, Gehl Architects of
Copenhagen.