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There's a huge amount of support
but also excitement, about the project
it is the first time that the council have built
its own housing in over a generation
so it is new to most people within the organisation
so we are very excited about it.
21st Century Homes for Edinburgh is the name
we have given to the council’s house building programme.
It aims to build thirteen hundred homes for sale
and for rent, with an investment value
of up to 150 million over the next ten years.
We have to meet the Scottish housing quality standard
by 2016 for all the houses that we rent as a landlord
and there is a number of those in the city
that won’t be cost effective
primarily for the energy conservation requirements we have to meet.
Where we can’t do that it makes sense for us
to demolish those and build new housing
and that is what is happening here.
We are going to be building smart new modern housing
fit for the 21st century
right up to modern standards and specification.
I don’t think there is a place for high rise anymore
I think they have served their time
it’s not a way of living, I don’t think.
It was cold, in the winter time it was cold.
We had the storage heaters
but I wasn’t wanting to use them
because they cost too much money for them.
When the Gracemount flats were built,
they were right for the time and people enjoyed living there
it was a good atmosphere there, but now I think
people want a different style of housing, modern housing.
It should take no more than three or four seconds
after the detonation has been pushed
they will all be on the floor; show over.
It was actually quite spectacular,
and you can’t actually imagine
what the landscape will be like without the flats there
and it went absolutely like clockwork
and then turning round and just seeing them all slowly crumbling,
and then the dust; great feeling, and good that
we are now making way for new housing to come in its place.
21st Century Homes for Edinburgh is the council’s
new house building programme.
What is means for Edinburgh is the provision of
new affordable housing, new homes for sale,
providing regenerated sustainable communities with a mix of housing.