After a hold-up of 240 years, New Town is finally finished

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Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2006 / June 2

The New Town is finally set to be completed more than 200 years after work on James Craig's vision to transform Edinburgh's city centre began. The architect of the New Town originally planned to build St Vincent Place to connect St Vincent Street with Fettes Row.But, after St Stephen's Church was built in the middle of the planned junction, 18th century planners were presented with a difficult problem and the street was never built. Georgian engineers were unable to overcome the site's difficult ground conditions but, 240 years later, 21st-century engineering techniques have conquered the challenging site. Now developers AMA are set to unveil a Ł50 million development, which includes seven penthouses, that will plug the last remaining gap site in the New Town.

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