Scotlands Abandoned Designer Village
Five Sisters Freeport Shopping Village and Leisure Park, near West Calder opened its doors to customers on September 5, 1996, claiming to be Scotland’s number one designer outlet village with over 40 stores, cafes and a host of leisure attractions.
It made a promising start. Achieving its millionth visitor in February of the following year, plans were drawn up to expand the 50,000 square feet of retail space and add a golf course and an indoor snow sports centre.
However, the opening of an outlet village in nearby Livingston, a new town, in October 2000 impacted heavily on the Five Sisters, drawing away customers and stealing most of its sales almost overnight. In November 2004, the complex closed and, despite various plans to redevelop the site, the buildings remain empty and the car park overgrown.
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Such a huge waste of money at the time it was only open 3 years or so but Heck it was wind swept and horrible in winter
@scotlandfromabove2023
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£30mil to build and opened in 1996 and closed 2004. After the centre in Livi opened in 2000 Freeport lost pretty much all custom. I had never been but already a few folk have mentioned how cold it was with the wind tunnel design.
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@scotlandfromabove2023
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Thankyou ❤️ There's already a lot of content on my channel from Castles, scenery, abandoned places to city centres a wide variety but all of Scotland 🏴
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@scotlandfromabove2023
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If you click on the video there's a description there 🏴
Great views
@scotlandfromabove2023
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Thankyou 😊🏴
Amazing views. New friend here.
@scotlandfromabove2023
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Appreciate it mate 💙🏴
sub no.199..great footage mate
@scotlandfromabove2023
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Thankyou very much, really appreciate it. There will be a lot more footage to come 🏴
So was this abandoned or is it being re fitted as there was some activity there.
@scotlandfromabove2023
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It's only security on site now. The designer outlet closed in 2004 and apart from BBC filming as far as I'm aware there's not been anything else maybe a short period where used for airsoft but nothing substantial. Its such a waste
There seem a lot of vehicles there for it to be abandoned.
@scotlandfromabove2023
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Yeah it looks like there's some taxis being stored there. Some vans I seen look like they've been left there for some time aswell. There was a black car which was security. Near the end he drives into the site
@raisagorbachov
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I wonder what else that site could be used for. Aren;t there some uninhabited villages/towns built for the oil boom in the 70s that were never inhabited? Those might make an interesting video.
@scotlandfromabove2023
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@Zephod Beeblebrox from what I've read and been told in comments on Facebook its getting knocked down and houses built. When though I've no idea if it is even in the pipeline. Oh those sound interesting, I was actually just looking at "Scotlands Chernobyl" in Glasgow so that's on my list. Do you know where these villages are? I'll need to have a look 👀👌🏼
@raisagorbachov
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@@scotlandfromabove2023 All I can say is they were coastal from memory and the BBC did something about them 20/30 years ago. I'm pretty ancient (56) so I remember stuff like that. I think they built a town or two for a port that never got built.
@scotlandfromabove2023
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@Zephod Beeblebrox 56 isn't ancient just experienced. I'm going to try and spend some time looking these up as this is very interesting and different from places folk would usually visit and film. I thought that yesterday at an abandoned Priory but it was very busy including about 4 or 5 people waiting to fly their drone so places that aren't popular to go but great to see so I'll definitely be searching and adding to the list of places to go 😊🏴