Description
Varcity Cityhouses
Inspired by the superb situation of Varcity, in one of the most open, pleasant areas of the capital, the architects and landscape designers have created a superb green environment where crisp modern buildings and verdant open spaces harmonise in a setting that has both a twenty-first century edge and a timeless tranquility.
Varcity is just a short walk from the renowned Royal Botanic Gardens, and equidistant from the Georgian elegance of the New Town to the south and the exciting new waterfront developments along the shore of the Forth to the north. Perfectly positioned for access to some of Edinburgh’s most peaceful and relaxing places, as well as having rapid road access to all parts of the city and beyond.
Live entertainment
From folk music in pubs to full orchestral concerts in the Usher hall, from drama world premieres at the Traverse to major international touring shows at the Playhouse, Edinburgh has one of the liveliest programmes of live entertainment to be found anywhere. Whatever your taste, bluegrass music or workshop theatre, stadium rock or club football, you’ll find Edinburgh a stimulating and captivating environment all the year round. And in summer, when the city hosts a series of major festivals, including the International, the vast Festival Fringe and the oldest continuous Film Festival in the world, the atmosphere becomes electric, almost magical.
Restaurants and bars
Edinburgh has one of the most exciting selections of bars and restaurants in the country, and nearby Stockbridge is one of the city’s most cosmopolitan quarters, with traditional bars, chic bistros and lively cafés. The city’s large student population and its summer festivals bring an avant garde, bohemian flavour that blends with cuisine of the highest quality and superb traditional bars to ensure that every taste and budget is covered.
Café life
Celebrated as Edinburgh’s most cosmopolitan quarter, Stockbridge has a liberal, youthful ambience that attracts students, artists and media professionals.
The area’s lively bars and cafés, international delis and exciting, colourful atmosphere present a lively forum in which locals and visitors meet to browse in the unusual specialist shops, enjoy a cappuccino and a cheesecake or watch the world go by over a cold beer.
Capital shopping
There are local convenience shops within a few minutes walk of Varcity, and a Waitrose supermarket nearby in Comely Bank Road. Stockbridge has the finest selection of butchers, international greengrocers, delicatessens and specialist shops in the city. The nearby retail park at Craigleith includes Boots, Marks and Spencer ‘Simply Food’, Sainsbury’s and the city centre, especially George Street and Multrees Walk, have become a focal point for fashion shopping ranging from the traditional elegance to vibrant, leading outlets like Harvey Nichols, Reiss, Armani, G-Star, Calvin Klein and many more.
Green Edinburgh and beyond
Edinburgh has many wonderful and surprising open places, including the magnificent collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens and the windswept Arthur’s Seat, Princes Street Gardens, the Forth shoreline and the delightful riverside walks along the Water of Leith. There are also many excellent cycle routes through and out of the city leading north to Fife, south into the wild tracts of the Pentland Hills and west along pleasant canal towpaths all the way to Glasgow.
Varcity
From the beautiful landscapes and breathtaking glasshouses of the Royal Botanic Gardens, a unique collection of flora from throughout the world, to the Water of Leith’s riverside walks extending from the Forth shoreline to the Pentland Hills and providing habitats for herons, swans and even kingfishers, Edinburgh is rich in opportunities to enjoy diverse, inspiring natural surroundings.
Nearest schools:
- Fettes College Preparatory School - Primary (0.3 miles)
- Fettes College - Secondary (0.3 miles)
- Forthview Primary School (0.5 miles)
Nearest stations:
Haymarket
(1.5 miles)
Edinburgh
(1.9 miles)
Slateford
(2.8 miles)
Site plan
About Miller Homes
Our Background
We’ll keep it brief, because a lot has happened over the past seventy-five years. Around 100,000 new Miller homes, for a start. A lot of new ideas in building technology. Loads of awards, like Major Housebuilder of the Year, Large Housebuilder of the Year, Best Sustainable Development, and Private Housebuilder of the Year. That last one’s important because it’s from First Time Buyer magazine, so it’s about real people and their experiences. We won that one last year. Oh, and the year before.
But awards are about the past. The important thing is what you can expect from us in the future.
Listening to you
Four times every year, we ask an independent research company to find out whether our customers would recommend us to friends. Our current rating is 97% positive (2011 average).
That’s about more than great houses. It’s about keeping in touch, helping you find what you want, helping you buy it once you’ve found it, telling you how the building’s coming along (by email, SMS, or the post). It’s about listening, and being there if you have a question or a problem. It’s about our incentives, offers and assistance schemes (please check them out), and dedicated websites that help people in a new neighbourhood to get to know each other. Yes, we get excited by new ideas and technologies, but essentially we’re just old fashioned, home loving people.
Quality homes. In quality places.
Building homes is what we do, and we do it exceptionally well. Over the past 75 years, we’ve seen what people really like about the homes we build and, well, we build on that experience.
So you know that behind the kerb appeal there’s a structure that meets the highest professional standards. You know that the beautifully proportioned rooms are impeccably finished and decorated. You know that every detail has been checked, inspected (and admired). You know all that because of the way the door feels when you open it, the crisp clean edge of the paintwork, the way your whole home just works. That’s experience.
What you may not realise, at least until you have the pleasant surprise of seeing your fuel bills, is that we are also absolutely committed to the most environmentally friendly movements in homebuilding. This means we use low-carbon construction methods (even zero carbon on occasion) but it also means that our homes are highly energy efficient in everyday life.
And finally, location location location. Some people want country quiet, some want urban convenience. All we can do is try to find the very best spot for every taste. So we try to put urban where it’s also pretty quiet and rural where it’s also pretty convenient. And the views? Well, we can’t move mountains (and wouldn’t if we could) but we will try to make sure your new home is pointing towards one if there’s one available, and something else nice if there’s not.
Service is too small a word.
We think of it as a relationship. Even if it never gets beyond the electronic stage we’ll do our very best to help you find what you’re looking for, and do it as unobtrusively as we can. You choose the channels, and we go away when you ask us to.
When you visit one of our developments, though, we have a chance to meet properly and talk. We enjoy that. We’ll show you homes we think you might like (or ones very like them if they’re not finished yet) and tell you about special offers that might interest you.
If you decide to buy, we’ll help in every way we can. We can give you information about mortgages and lawyers if you want it, although we’re careful not to become too close to anyone working on your behalf because we don’t want any conflicts of interest. Then we’ll keep you informed as your new home is being built, and invite you round at the appropriate time to choose things like kitchen worktops and bathroom tiles. If you want to measure up for carpets and curtains, we’ll do our best to arrange things.
When you get your keys, there’s a meeting to go over all the important stuff like stopcocks and thermostats, and we’ll also leave you full instructions. But here’s the best part. We don’t go away. We’ll leave you in peace, of course, but if you need help or advice we’ll be on hand for as long as you need us. That’s the kind of relationship we like.
