Lindsayfield is a residential area in the
new town
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of
East Kilbride, Scotland. The modern estate was constructed from the 1990s onwards.
Overview
Lindsayfield is situated next to the districts of
Greenhills and
Whitehills. The main road around the outside of Lindsayfield extends offering a drive to the villages of
Auldhouse
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* Auldhouse, Glasgow
* Auldhouse, South Lanarkshire
Auldhouse is a hamlet in South Lanarkshire, around to the south of the suburban edge of East Kilbride.
History
The first mention of th ...
,
Strathaven,
Chapelton and
Leaburn. The main road through the area currently just ends at a dead end. However, in the near future, the road will be continued through to
Jackton
Jackton is a small village lying just beyond the western periphery of East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire, on the B764 road (otherwise known as the 'Eaglesham Road') connecting it to the village of Eaglesham. It is also adjacent to Thorntonhall, a ...
, to allow for a large new part of the town to be built in the Jackton Community Growth Area. The new estate will, like Lindsayfield, use the Jackton Road as the boundary, but will also use the Hayhill Road.
Lindsayfield was constructed by a number of major house builders, including
George Wimpey,
Barratt, Lynch,
Bellway,
Stewart Milne
Stewart Milne CBE, DBA, DTech (born 23 July 1950) is a Scottish businessman and football club chairman, from Alford, Aberdeenshire.
Milne founded the Aberdeen-based Stewart Milne Construction Group, a housebuilding contractor, in 1975. He started ...
,
Cala,
Dawn Homes
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and
Persimmon Homes. Lindsayfield is accessed from the eponymous Road which divides four distinct estates on the northern side from the huge interconnecting southern residential scheme, extending from the
Morrisons supermarket to the original western edge of the estate.
Like much of East Kilbride, Lindsayfield is characterised by landscaped open space dividing one phase of house-building from the next, and one builder's contribution from its rivals. There are a small number of bungalows, and a smattering of apartments throughout the district, but the vast majority of properties here are three, four and five-bedroom detached houses, making the district very popular with families. Since it is on the southern fringe of East Kilbride and is a closed suburb with no through-traffic, Lindsayfield has very little crime or antisocial behaviour and no graffiti. Local schools
Castlefield Primary School
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,
St. Vincent's Primary School and
Crosshouse Primary School
Crosshouse is a village in East Ayrshire about west of Kilmarnock. It grew around the cross-roads of the main Kilmarnock to Irvine road, once classified as the A71 but now reduced in status to the B7081, with a secondary road (the B751) running ...
are where local children normally go to school, but there are plans to build a new school northwest of Lindsayfield in a new area.
Although much of Lindsayfield is aesthetically modern as it is 'new build', the telephony system currently in place is not modern. Most of Lindsayfield has telephony delivered by
BT over a passive optical network (TPON). This means most of Lindsayfield can only previously get slow-speed
Broadband, of around 1MB connection speed, however,
FTTC has now been extended and currently reaches to Cabinet 73, with ongoing work providing additional capacity for the last remaining areas. A partial copper overlay programme was carried out in 2003 to allow some residents of Lindsayfield to receive a copper pair telephone line and thus an ADSL service.
See also
*
Noddy housing
Noddy housing (sometimes called "Noddy Box Housing" or "Shoddy Noddy Boxes")
is commercially built housing of low build quality or design merit.
Noddy houses are typically small homes on narrow plots of land built since the early 1990s by la ...
References
External links
East Kilbride Community Growth Areaby
The Scottish Government
Areas of East Kilbride
Planned residential developments
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