Dundas Estates partners with property expert on £35m Musselburgh housing development

Housebuilder Dundas Estates has teamed up with an estate agent expert for the first time to deliver a £35 million development in East Lothian.The company is working with property specialist Rettie & Co. to transform a disused industrial factory site into 140 contemporary riverside apartments.The partnership sees the two independent firms collaborate on the construction and marketing of the £35m Wireworks development in Musselburgh, which is on the site of a historic wire mill that played a crucial role in Britain’s WW2 war effort.The Livingston-based homebuilder broke ground on the East Lothian development in January, with an off-plan sales launch scheduled for spring.Dundas will build 140 apartments, including 11 affordable homes, ranging from one, two and three-bedroom flats.Bruntons Wire Mill produced metal parts and equipment from 1876 and played a key part during the Second World War by producing materials and equipment for the aero industry.Despite trading throughout the 1980s, the wire mill closed down in the following decade, moving the short distance to the Inveresk Industrial Estate and trading as Bruntons Aero Products.Dundas Estates, through a partnership with Tesco, East Lothian Council and NHS Lothian, acquired the site after receiving planning permission to regenerate the former Brunton Wireworks site and neighbouring land in 2008.The firm is committed through Section 75 payments to contributing up to £400,000 along with the other partners, which will be invested into local schooling and infrastructure.Electric car charging facilities will be available throughout the development while car parking spaces are found throughout the development. The Wireworks development will also have the capacity to store 140 bicycles in internal and external bikes stores.Private gardens and balconies will also be available in selected plots.