 The current church was meant to be a "temporary construction" (originally envisioned as the church hall), and post wartime a purpose-built church would be designed once resources were more plentiful.These plans never came to fruition, although building work did take place around the church in the form of a wall and an extension to the Priory to allow for visitors.St John Ogilvie's Parish was opened in 1970 to serve Wester Hailes, and thus the parish boundary for St Joseph's changed in 1977.