About Oxgangs High Rise Flats
The Oxgangs tower blocks were a group of 3 tower blocks which were built on Firrhill Drive /Oxgangs Crescent in 1961. They each contained a mixture of flats and maisonettes with 2 bedrooms each, totalling up to 80 homes per block. The blocks were called \"Allermuir Court\" \"Caerketton Court\" and \"Capelaw Court\" and were named after three of the nearby Pentland Hills
At the time of their completion they were seen as 'luxurious', boasting outstanding views across Edinburgh and offered a much better place to live than the slums of the inner city. However, a short while after their completion several problems were drawn into attention such as dampness, and after the 1970s the original families were beginning to move out of the blocks in search of other housing.
By the 1980s they had become a very undesirable and run-down place to live, drugs and crime blighted the tower blocks and the people that lived in them. Only the desperate came to live in them and by this time they contained very few families. Structurally, the towers were suffering from neglect and because of this they were steadily but rapidly falling into disrepair.
Oxgangs High Rise Flats Description
The Oxgangs tower blocks were a group of 3 tower blocks which were built on Firrhill Drive /Oxgangs Crescent in 1961. They each contained a mixture of flats and maisonettes with 2 bedrooms each, totalling up to 80 homes per block. The blocks were called \"Allermuir Court\" \"Caerketton Court\" and \"Capelaw Court\" and were named after three of the nearby Pentland Hills
At the time of their completion they were seen as 'luxurious', boasting outstanding views across Edinburgh and offered a much better place to live than the slums of the inner city. However, a short while after their completion several problems were drawn into attention such as dampness, and after the 1970s the original families were beginning to move out of the blocks in search of other housing.
By the 1980s they had become a very undesirable and run-down place to live, drugs and crime blighted the tower blocks and the people that lived in them. Only the desperate came to live in them and by this time they contained very few families. Structurally, the towers were suffering from neglect and because of this they were steadily but rapidly falling into disrepair.