Logie is a residential area of the City of Dundee

Dundee

Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...

, Scotland

Scotland

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. It is located north of Blackness Road, bounded by Blackness Road, Balgay Road, Scott Street and Glenagnes Road. "Logie" in placenames derives from the Scottish Gaelic logan or lagan, meaning a hollow.

Logie Housing Estate

The main feature of the area is the Logie housing estate, built between 1919 and 1920 and designed by James Thompson. The estate was the first public housing

Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. Social housing is an umbrella term referring to rental housing which may be owned and managed by the state, by non-profit organizations, or by a combination of the...

 estate built in Scotland after the First World War. It was one of the first in Europe to have a district heating

District heating

District heating is a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location for residential and commercial heating requirements such as space heating and water heating...

 scheme, supplied by a boilerhouse that also provided a public wash-house for the surrounding area. Poor insulation of the supply pipes meant that the snow on the pavements melted.

The housing consists mostly of three-room (living room and two bedrooms, plus kitchen and bathroom) and two-room (living room and one bedroom, kitchen and bathroom) in blocks of four flats, two upper and two lower, each with its own front door of the type described in England as a "maisonette". As well as communal drying greens, the houses each have a small allotment

Allotment (gardening)

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, although many of these have now been grassed over. The district heating scheme was closed in the late 1970s and individual central heating

Central heating

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 installed in each house.

The estate is divided by a wide tree-lined dual carriageway, Logie Avenue, which was equipped with a view-point at its upper end next to Victoria Park. The estate was designated as an "outstanding" Conservation Area in 1991. The conservation area designation says of the houses that "the facades are enlivened by simple and effective brick detailing. The care taken over the detailing of the garden fences, gates, address plates, railings, steps and paths give the area a wonderful unity which is still intact today."

Logie School and Logie Poorhouse

Adjacent to the housing estate, on the corner of Blackness Road and Glenagnes Road, stood Logie secondary school

Secondary school

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, later Harris Academy

Harris Academy

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 Annexe, designed by C.G. Soutar and opened in 1928. This stood on the site of the Logie poorhouse

Poorhouse

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of Liff & Benvie Parish, which was itself opened in April 1864. The school was destroyed by fire in 2001.

Political representation

With the new Single Transferable Vote system in place, Jim Barrie (SNP), Donald Hay (Conservative), Richard McCready (Labour), and Fraser McPherson (Liberal Democrat) all represent the Logie area as part of the new West End ward.