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i don’t want to live in the middle of nowhere, i want to live in the middle of the city. i want my own place, with some private space and everything on my doorstep.
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edinburgh’s such a great city. sometimes i’ll be walking around town on a saturday morning and i think – wow, i live here!
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my ideal would be a place i can afford in the city, with a bit of green space, where we can bring up our kids, safe and secure. but there aren’t many of them about.
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190mm it’d be brilliant to live right in the heart of the city, close to work and with everything going on, but still have some peace and quiet when you want it.
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sounds good to me. you’ve got town up the road. leith down the road. hibs for a neighbour, and one of the best cake shops in scotland just round the corner.
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190mm weekends, we like to go to the chinese supermarket, get a spot of lunch in elm row, catch a movie, go to the pub or occasionally the playhouse. be nice to be able to walk home.
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i fancy a colony house or maybe a nice apartment with a view, something with a bit of character, somewhere secluded in the city, that’s not going to cost me an arm or a leg. any ideas?
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we don’t want to live somewhere anonymous. we want to be part of a 190mm community. near good schools and shops, places to go out to eat and have a drink, nice places to walk or ride our bikes, near town so we don’t have to bother with a car.
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150mm breathing space your very own eden|in the edinburgh hub we want urban eden to be a sanctuary, a kind of secret garden, where you can catch your breath, but still enjoy living in the city.
We call it Urban Eden for a very good reason. Urban says These interesting and characterful homes are built with gardens central, contemporary, downtown, full of life. Eden says garden, and outside spaces in an environment that provides room for green, enclosed, a safe place, a haven, which is exactly what cars, but puts people first. we designed it to be. It’s a neighbourhood with people friendly streets, squares and Urban Eden is a unique new neighbourhood that’s growing up terraces, balconies and planters. Open spaces, public seating behind what will soon be ‘green walls’ of trees, just by Lochend and play areas provide places where people can get together, Park. It’s close to Meadowbank Retail Park, and just a stone’s and all the trees, shrubs, flowers and nest boxes make it throw from London Road and Easter Road, in an area of the wildlife friendly, too. city that’s being re-born. This is our secret garden – your secret garden – with everything The idea is to create a community here of stylish, flexible, you could want or need right on the doorstep. Life in the city, intelligently designed homes for an interesting mix of people, with added breathing space. at most if not every stage of life. Single people, couples, families with growing children, and older people.
Centred on a modern interpretation of traditional Edinburgh colony houses, Urban Eden also offers landmark and low rise apartments, terraces and townhouses, and this range of housing means you can scale up or scale down as the opportunity arises and your circumstances change.
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urban eden is a triangle, like a butterfly’s wing, with colony houses at its heart, and 6 and 9 storey landmark apartment buildings at each corner.
Urban Eden is designed for a particular style of urban living. The interiors of all the properties are also of a very high It’s not for everyone. It’s about being part of the city and also standard, beautifully and cleverly designed to make the being separate from it. It’s about community and being good most of interior space and ‘liveability’, with stylish kitchens, neighbours. About somewhere you can live, work, play, get on, bathrooms and fittings, and everything just so. have fun and laugh a lot. The street layout has a main street, mews streets and The character of Urban Eden is set by the colony houses that cul-de-sacs, and there’s a network of intimate connected are at the heart of it. Originally built in the second half of squares and open spaces. the 19th Century, colony houses were designed as homes for Edinburgh’s growing population of skilled artisans, one home Only one point of access for vehicles means that there’s very up, one home down. little traffic to worry about, and as well as some car parking, there’s cycle parking and spaces reserved for the Edinburgh In Urban Eden, we’ve re-interpreted them for the 21st Century, City Car Club to provide 24/7 pay-as-you-go motoring. with colony properties that have 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms. In addition, there are 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments, 2 bedroom Wherever you look, there are changing views and perspectives, corner apartments, 2 and 3 bedroom terraced houses, 3 and you can see up to Calton Hill, Arthurs’ Seat and Salisbury bedroom courtyard houses, and 3 and 4 bedroom townhouses. Crags. Lochend Park, Meadowbank Retail Park, London and Easter Roads are a few minutes’ walk away. Princes Street We’ve chosen our building materials carefully, led by architectural maybe 15 minutes and Waverley Station about 20. style of the town’s traditional colony houses which we’ve recreated predominantly in brick, and also by the sandy and Think of Urban Eden as a safe, friendly, welcoming community. grey stone hues that are so much a part of the city. Easy to get to and get out of, to the whole of Edinburgh, Leith and elsewhere, and above all, a great place to come home to. We’ve been equally careful to use sympathetic, high quality materials for the streets and pathways, stainless steel and hardwood for the street furniture, sustainably sourced, pre-treated European hard and soft woods for the garden furniture, and so on.
Urban Eden Brochure_INNER_AW.indd 14-15 16/04/2015 12:49 as you arrive at peek behind walk into urban ‘green gables’ on urban eden, you’re the houses eden over the some of the buildings greeted by a paved and you’ll see re-designed raise the sense of thoughtful square, a swathe that upstairs crawford bridge green space to roof of grass and trees has a roomy and from the top level and balconies, and a long terrace terrace and of a flight of terraces, gardens of colony houses. in most cases, steps, you can and public spaces downstairs take in a view create a feeling of has a neat of pretty much ‘interconnectedness’. sustainable little garden. the whole of the attractive neighbourhood. In designing Urban Eden, we’ve tried to think of everything people might need to enjoy city life and make the most of it, while at the same time, having space for a bit of peace and relaxation and every convenience.
We’ve built plenty of character into its buildings, so they’re not just anonymous boxes, and paid careful attention to the practicality of room layouts, and the design and lasting quality of fixtures and fittings.
The whole neighbourhood will meet excellent sustainability standards and we’ve considered sustainability issues in the materials we’ve chosen, and in heating, ventilation and drainage systems, waste storage, disposal and recycling.
The landscaping makes provision for a great deal of attractive greenery. There will be footpaths and connections to cycle paths, and as we’ve mentioned, a special arrangement with the Edinburgh City Car Club.
These and other thoughtful touches in design and build are intended to contribute to the attractiveness of Urban Eden and the community that will be built here.
working with the the views to wherever step inside any of city car club, we’re calton hill, possible, we’ve the houses and making dedicated arthur’s seat and made great use flats and you’ll parking available the crags we’ve of glass, too, to witness intelligent for go anywhere already talked take advantage design at work, city cars. so you about, but they’re of light and with very swish, can book and drive even better from aspect, including ergonomically away by the hour the upper flats features like designed kitchens or by the day for where, from french doors and bathrooms, shopping, work and some, you can see and windows thoughtfully trips out, and drop along the coast that ‘bring the chosen fittings and the car off when to east lothian. outside in’. a great use of space. you get back home.
Urban Eden Brochure_INNER_AW.indd 16-17 16/04/2015 12:49 you do the shopping list, my urban eden is the idea don’t you? you want to be of having stylish family close to the city, have accommodation that i can your own front door and afford within spitting a bit of garden. be near distance of multrees walk, to good schools, shops and princes street and george entertainments, with a safe street, and being able to environment for the kids. walk to work. that’d be my eden.
I’d like somewhere a bit trendy, frankly, and it sounds like this might fit the bill.
Value for money in this is our urban eden this is our urban eden a central | | location.
We’ve always liked colony houses, but they’re hard to come by and we didn’t Big City. want to take on the cost Small Community. and hassle of restoring an That’s my urban eden. old house. What i’d like is a smart, So this is our Urban Eden. I’d like to be in the middle modern, energy efficient of the city, close to work, apartment, with a really bars, restaurants, cinemas nice kitchen and bathroom, and theatres, but sit but I want it to be in out on the terrace of a Edinburgh and I want to be summer’s evening with my able to afford it. girlfriend and a nice chilled bottle of white wine.
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inverleith putting it park lochend park edinburgh leith walk
easter rd on the map london rd calton close to everything away from it all hill | queen st willowbrae rd george st Spend a few minutes with this map and you’ll see how Urban There are two primary schools and a high school nearby, princess st Eden can be so close to everything, but also away from it all. and many other well-known Edinburgh schools are within waverley
The park, as we’ve said, is 2 minutes’ walk away. Footpaths take easy striking distance. Add in local shops, supermarkets, lothian rd station financial you to Easter Road and the Crawford Bridge, and there’ll be a department stores, pubs, clubs, bars and restaurants and district edinburgh new footpath direct to the retail park. you’ll get the picture. castle holyrood Up the road, you’re at Meadowbank Sports Centre, Holyrood And tucked away in the middle of it all is Urban Eden. park Park, Calton Hill and the centre of town. Down the road, there’s Close, but hidden away. Leith Walk, Pilrig Park, Leith Links, the shops and the shore. haymarket There are five or more bus routes, the tram route and the future station south suburban railway.
In your car (or on your bike) and you’re soon on either Easter Road or London Road, on the way to the Old Town and Princes Street in one direction, Newhaven, Trinity and all things west in another, Musselburgh, East Lothian, the ring road and the motorway in yet another.
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At Places for People, we don’t just build houses and apartments. We’re one of the UK’s leading property management, development and regeneration companies, and our vision is: ‘to provide aspirational homes and inspirational places.’
By this we mean thinking about the quality of the architecture, environment and interiors, and also about all the things an area needs to thrive. The kind of accommodation people need. The dynamics and interaction of the layout and street plan, and the local infrastructure.
If the infrastructure exists, great. We’ll build links to it. If it doesn’t, we’ll build it. We’ve now taken this approach to create hundreds of new neighbourhoods among the 148,000 homes that we own or manage. And once they’re built, we don’t just walk away. We continue to manage and care for them.
We’re a not-for-dividend organisation, which means that our profits are re-invested in our business and our work.
Our ultimate aim is to build attractive and sustainable homes and communities, with green and open spaces, where people can enjoy living and choose to live for the long term. That’s what Urban Eden is about, too. Characterful, long term, community living in the heart of the city.
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