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Sighthill is a suburb in the west ofEdinburgh,Scotland. The area is bordered byBroomhouse andParkhead to the east,South Gyle to the north, the industrial suburb ofBankhead andthe Calders neighbourhood to the west, andWester Hailes to the south.[1] It is sometimes included in the Wester Hailes area, while the Calders, Bankhead and Parkhead are sometimes considered parts of Sighthill.[2][3] Administratively it has formed a core part of theCity of Edinburgh Council'sSighthill/Gorgie ward since 2007.[4]
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For nearly 50 years, the skyline of western Edinburgh was dominated by four high rise residentialtower blocks in northern Sighthill (Broomview House, Glenalmond Court, Hermiston Court and Weir Court).[5][6][7][8]
The 11-storey 'slab' block Broomview House was demolished on Sunday 21 September 2008 bySafedem. The flats came down at 11:15 am in a controlled explosion where a longstanding former resident pushed the ceremonial button to implode the building. The remaining three blocks were demolished on Sunday 25 September 2011, also at 11:15 am. All of the remaining low-rise council-built properties in the vicinity were also demolished over the next few years. Plans for a new development called Broomview byKeepmoat were approved, and the area was successfully redeveloped, with construction work completed in 2020. To the north of this new housing is the area's public park.
The older, southern part of Sighthill consists mainly ofcottage flat (four-in-a-block) homes, and has remained relatively unchanged since its construction in the late 1940s along with neighbouring Parkhead.
Edinburgh College (formerly Stevenson) andEdinburgh Napier University's Sighthill Campuses (formerly Stevenson College and the Edinburgh Business College respectively) are based here.[1]
There are a medical centre and a fire station. There are a public library and some shops. The Health centre was one of the first modern Health clinics in the UK (the other was in Cardiff) as a trial to see if it worked (before this, doctors made house visits to the patients' homes).
TheCalder Road, one of the city's main arteries, runs through Sighthill, around 0.5 miles (0.80 km) from theEdinburgh city bypass (A720) road and the connection with theM8 motorway. TheEdinburgh–Dunblane line railway (also connecting toGlasgow Queen Street) is nearby to the north, as is the route ofEdinburgh Trams between the city centre andEdinburgh Airport. TheUnion Canal skirts the area to the south-west.
Lothian Buses provides 14 buses to the area:
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| Ethnicity | Sighthill/Gorgie | Edinburgh[9] |
|---|---|---|
| White | 79.4% | 84.9% |
| Asian | 12.9% | 8.6% |
| Black | 3.1% | 2.1% |
| Mixed | 2.5% | 2.5% |
| Other | 2.1% | 1.9% |
Sighthill has been used as a location for film and television productions. The most notable production to be filmed in Sighthill was the 1998BBC Scotland television dramaLooking After Jo Jo which featuredRobert Carlyle in the title role and was filmed in and around North Sighthill andNiddrie. Other notable film and television productions to be filmed in Sighthill includeQuite Ugly One Morning starringJames Nesbitt and an adaptation of theChristopher Brookmyre novel and Trouble Sleeping - a tale of a Palestinian refugee struggling to survive in the UK. More recently the flats in Sighthill have been used as backdrop for the filmOutcast aCeltic supernatural thriller once again starringJames Nesbitt and released in 2010.
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