Whitfield, Dundee

Coordinates: 56°29′18″N 2°55′32″W / 56.488342°N 2.925606°W / 56.488342; -2.925606

Whitfield
Whitfield  Whitfield shown within the City of Dundee
OS grid reference	NO431333
Council area	City of Dundee
Lieutenancy area	Dundee
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	DUNDEE
Postcode district	DD4
Dialling code	01382
Police	Tayside
Fire	Tayside
Ambulance	Scottish
EU Parliament	Scotland
UK Parliament	Dundee East
Scottish Parliament	Dundee East North East Scotland
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Whitfield is a residential area in the north of Dundee, Scotland to the east of Fintry and north of Douglas. The area was built in the 1960s to accommodate Dundee's expanding population. A lot of the housing was low rise, deck access flats, innovative for the time, built using the "Skarne" prefabrication system.

Between 1989 and 1995 it was one of the four areas chosen for the Scottish Office programme New Life for Urban Scotland. A lot of the deck access housing in the area was demolished as the area was remodelled.

In the 2004 Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation, Whitfield contained two datazones (average population 1,000) in the most deprived 15% of datazones in Scotland.

Whitfield had two high rise tower blocks of flats, both constructed in 1969. In 2003 the tower block housing Quarryfield and Whitfield courts was demolished, and in 2004 the neighbouring tower block which housed Greenfield and Kellyfield courts followed. As of 2006 the area is undergoing redevelopment as part of a redevelopment plan and the area is seeing a rise in population.

Education

There are two secondary schools in the Whitfield area. To the north is Braeview Academy which was formerly called Whifield High School and in the very south is St Paul's Roman Catholic Academy School (formerly St Saviour's Roman Catholic High School, due to close and reopen on a new campus January 2009). There are also two primary schools, Whitfield Primary School and Newfields Primary School (due to merge in spring 2012).

External links

• Whitfield Primary School's page on Scottish Schools Online