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Platinum Point

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Platinum Point is a development by Gregor Shore Limited in the Western Harbour area of Newhaven in Edinburgh, Scotland. It formed part of a large scale redevelopment of the Leith docklands by Forth Ports, named Edinburgh Forthside. The development is located near the Ocean Terminal shopping centre. The eventual development was for 452 flats with 50 different designs available, although only half (Phase 1) has been built owing to the developer, Gregor Shore Limited, entering into administration on 14 October 2008. The company was dissolved on 9 January 2015. In September 2006 owners of apartments in Phase 1 formed the Platinum Point Owners′ Association.

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Platinum Point
Western Harbour Drive, City of Edinburgh Leith

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N 55.984 ° E -3.191 °
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EH6 6LR City of Edinburgh, Leith
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Newhaven, Edinburgh
Newhaven, Edinburgh

Newhaven is a district in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland, between Leith and Granton and about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the city centre, just north of the Victoria Park district. Formerly a village and harbour on the Firth of Forth, it had a population of approximately 5,000 inhabitants at the 1991 census. Newhaven was designated a conservation area, one of 40 such areas in Edinburgh, in 1977.It has a very distinctive building form, typical of many Scottish fishing villages, with a "forestair" leading to accommodation at first floor level. The lower ground floor was used for storing nets. More modern housing dating from the 1960s has replicated the style of these older buildings. Victoria Primary School, created in 1844, is a historic, listed building in Newhaven Main Street and was the oldest council primary school still in use within the City of Edinburgh until pupils and staff moved to a new building across in Western Harbour in 2021. It latterly had a school roll of around 145 children. The site has now been acquired under the Community Asset Transfer scheme, by the Heart of Newhaven Community, a volunteer-led charity, who will be running it as a community hub. The new Western Harbour development extends north into the Firth of Forth from Newhaven. It is also the home of Next Generation Sports Centre (now named David Lloyd Newhaven Harbour), where the tennis player Sir Andy Murray regularly played as a youngster.