The Calders

The Calders is a residential neighbourhood in

Pentland Hills ward since then, along with Wester Hailes.^[1]

To the west of the neighbourhood is the A720

Pedestrian underpasses connect the Calders to Bankhead under the A71, and to Sighthill under the B701 Wester Hailes Road, also a dual carriageway.^[2]

The presence of the three main roads and canal surrounding the area on all sides gives it a somewhat isolated character, and a roughly square territory.

The Calders contains the Wester Hailes Education Centre. The bulk of the housing stock is council owned, and the area contains some of the remaining high rises in Edinburgh (Cobbinshaw House, Dunsyre House and Medwin House, all 13-storey 'slab' blocks).^[3]^[4]^[5] The majority of the other buildings are four storeys high (some in a tenement style with a common stairway serving two flats on each floor, others in cube-shaped structures with four flats on each floor off a central stairway, with a small percentage of two-storey tenements and some of the cubes built on a slope towards the canal featuring a fifth floor). All were built in the late 1960s and early 1970s to an angular design, primarily of grey concrete with dark brown features; before they were constructed, the area contained prewar prefabs.^[6]

References

^ Electoral Ward: Pentland Hills, Scottish Government Statistics
^ The Calders, Gazetteer for Scotland
^ Edinburgh, Calder Park, Canmore
^ Sighthill Temporary Housing Area III, Tower Block | University of Edinburgh
^ Sighthill THA III^{[dead link]}, Emporis
^ Sighthill and Calder Map 1955, EdinPhoto

55°55′10″N 3°17′45″W / 55.91944°N 3.29583°W / 55.91944; -3.29583

[1] Electoral Ward: Pentland Hills, Scottish Government Statistics

[2] The Calders, Gazetteer for Scotland

[3] Edinburgh, Calder Park, Canmore

[4] Sighthill Temporary Housing Area III, Tower Block | University of Edinburgh

[5] Sighthill THA III^{[dead link]}, Emporis

[6] Sighthill and Calder Map 1955, EdinPhoto

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