Edinburgh’s New Waverley development has been nominated for a top national property award.
New Waverley was one of only a handful of UK-wide developments to make the shortlist for the fiercely-contested ‘Placemaking’ category of the 2017 Property Awards, which will be held in London on April 4. The placemaking award rewards “commercial and mixed use developments that have regenerated and physically improved the built environment around a particular site”.
The £150 million regeneration scheme is being delivered by Artisan Real Estate Investors and the award nomination recognises its current status as one of the UK’s most important city-centre regeneration sites, taking place in the historic and highly sensitive World Heritage Site of Edinburgh’s Old Town.
Looking forward to the awards, Clive Wilding, New Waverley’s Project Director said: “We are all delighted that New Waverley has made this prestigious national shortlist – especially as ‘placemaking’ is what our development is all about.
“For the last two years, we have worked hard to make New Waverley be an integral part of Edinburgh’s Old Town, breathing new life back to a formerly neglected part of the city centre. This award nomination shows that our efforts are now paying off and I am delighted that New Waverley’s considerable impact is being recognised on a national stage by our peers and public alike.”
Completed so far as part of the first New Waverley development phase are two Whitbread Premier Inn hotels which opened in January 2016, and The Arches, a row of 19 Victorian arches which have been transformed to create an exciting new leisure and retail district for the city.
And in December last year the new 146-apartment Aparthotels Adagio overlooking Edinburgh’s Royal Mile opened for business overlooking a new football pitch-sized public square becoming the first significant public space to open in the city centre for more than 50 years.
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John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
