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Idea #2: Infill Stenhouse housing

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Feb 16, 2026
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VIEWED from the air, the layout of the housing estate bounded by Stenhouse Drive and Saughton Road is almost skeletal, such is the volume of mostly unloved ‘municipal grass’.

In a city where land is at such a premium, the solution seems a no-brainer: fill the gaps with new housing, not least because, almost certainly, the land belongs to the council.

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