No groundworker listed in Corstorphine yet.

A groundworker handles the unseen work that supports a building - excavation, foundations, drainage runs, sub-bases, site clearance and grading - everything below ground level before the bricklayers and joiners arrive.

Get a soil and ground-conditions check on any site you don't already know - clay, made-up ground or peat each call for different foundation strategies and ignoring this is the most expensive mistake on a build.

Make sure any drainage work is signed off in writing - groundworks that fail building control later are a nightmare to retrofit once a slab has been poured.

Corstorphine is a major suburb in west Edinburgh, home to Edinburgh Zoo and Corstorphine Hill - a wooded ridge that offers some of the best views across the city.

The old village centre, with its medieval church and dovecot, retains a distinct identity despite the suburban growth that surrounds it.

Corstorphine has a wide range of shops, schools and services along its high street and the surrounding residential streets are popular with families.

The area sits close to the Edinburgh city bypass and the airport, making it one of the most accessible parts of the city by car.

Corstorphine Hill Local Nature Reserve is a green lung in the western suburbs, with woodland walks and the Clermiston Tower viewpoint.

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Edinburgh is Scotland's capital city and one of the most recognisable cities in the world, built across a series of volcanic hills on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth.

The Old Town and New Town, together a UNESCO World Heritage Site, form the historic core - but the city stretches far beyond them, taking in dozens of distinct neighbourhoods, suburbs and villages absorbed over centuries of growth.

From the Georgian terraces of the New Town to the seaside promenade at Portobello, the leafy avenues of Morningside to the waterfront regeneration at Granton, each part of Edinburgh has its own character and community.

The city is a centre for finance, technology, higher education and the arts - the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world and the city's universities attract students and researchers from across the globe.

Edinburgh's transport network includes a tram line, an extensive bus system, two mainline railway stations and an international airport, connecting its neighbourhoods to each other and to the rest of Scotland and beyond.