Ground-breaking community-led development around a historic farmhouse rebuilt with café, training kitchens and meeting rooms while, adjacent, a new timber workshops encloses a working yard to the front and a productive garden behind. National Context: Scotland is making bold strides towards Community Empowerment with the eponymous Bill setting out new powers and levers such as Community Asset Transfers and Rights to Buy. In advance of these coming into place Edinburgh community group Bridgen

The Edinburgh Printmakers new creative hub is located within what once was the headquarters of the North British Rubber Company (NBRC). Our project involved the redevelopment of this derelict building into a multi-use arts complex centred around printmaking production. The NBRC building is the only surviving structure from the once large and important nineteenth century Castle Mills industrial complex. At its height, NBRC employed over three thousand people and produced a vast array of rubber