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Broughton Spurtle Are we really just going to fill all the available housing possibilities with student flats? 🤯🤬 What housing crisis?? 🤡

Broughton Spurtle 207 luxury flats in 6 low-rise (with a floor of offices) ✔️ 108 mid market rent flats in 1 low-rise ✔️ 599 PBSA-cum-de facto STL units in 2 low-rise ❌ Where is the AFFORDABLE housing? High density housing, NOT denser student accommodation! 34 Fettes Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5DX

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Broughton Spurtle To developers, student accommodation makes perfect sense, and excellent bang for buck. When the students break for the long Summer, the rooms get rented out to tourists.

NEW TOWN PLUMBING:—Does anyone understand it? Can any reader explain this? #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #pipes

Broughton Spurtle Drainage records will be instructive here: edinburgh.gov.uk/building-warra… Possibly originally separate wastewater and rainwater downpipes that have been shortened and adapted.

Broughton Spurtle It is a loop vent, normally used where a full stack can't be used ventilate the pipe and before mechanical AAVs were used. It allows air to enter the system to ensure the sink drains and prevents odour in the home . Amongst some other uses.

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Lorn Macneal Architects Broughton Spurtle Although for it to be a working loop vent there still has to be a dedicated vent stack or a vented drain stack connected to it somewhere in the vicinity. A wider angle would be good.

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