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Places for People – The Engine Yard – Edinburgh
P l a c e s f o r P e o p l e – T h e E n g i n e Y a r d – E d i n b u r g h
Unique urban l iving Managing Director f or Scot land,
Managing Director for Scotland,
Unique urban living
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Station but now the trams have
finished product and I’m sure our
made way for a spectacular
made w a y f or a spectacular finished product and I’m sure our
purchasers will be too.”
collection of forty-three high-
col lect ion of f orty -t hree high- purchasers wil l be too. ”
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specification one, two and
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hree-bedroom homes, which ha
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original structure. Partner in Charge Ángel Morales-
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fusion of old and new – gorgeous, Ed inburgh ’ s industrial heritage al iv e.
of
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Edinburgh’s industrial heritage alive.
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AUNCH OF THE contemporary interiors strikingly “T he main chal lenge la y in
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