Scottish Government

Deliver Edinburgh Waterfront Regeneration.

NPF2 Paragraph Reference

58, 187, Map 9

Contribution to NPF Strategy

• Supports the development of Scotland's cities as key drivers of the economy.
• Promotes development which helps to improve health, regenerate communities and enable disadvantaged communities to access opportunities.
• Promotes more sustainable patterns of travel, transport and land use.
• Encourages supply of homes that are affordable in places where people want to live.

Pre 2012 - Reflect Edinburgh Waterfront Masterplan in development plans and associated action programmes, regional transport strategy and development management decisions. Consider the need for environmental assessment, appropriate assessment and detailed scheme level mitigation at plan or project level.

Lead Partner(s)/Delivery Bodies

Edinburgh Waterfront Development Partnership
Transport Initiative Edinburgh, Scottish Enterprise, Forth Ports, National Grid, Waterfront Edinburgh Ltd, Transport Scotland, Sestrans, SESplan, Sport Scotland, Community Sector, Scottish Government (Directorate for the Built Environment), utility companies

Early 2010 - the first section of Promenade at Cramond opened, tenders sought for second stretch at Granton.

Detailed planning applications for the first two phases (of eleven) of the Leith Docks development have been submitted. Pre-application consultation has been carried out in advance of an application for a biomass generating station.

Some residential, commercial and retail developments including two supermarkets, a new College campus and a public park have been completed

Summer, 2011- Edinburgh Waterfront regeneration - An application has been lodged by Forth Energy for a biomass energy plant in Leith docks under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989.

November, 2011 - Forth Ports, Scottish Enterprise and Edinburgh City Council conducting technical and feasibility studies to help form future plans for the port, taking into account the current economic challenges and opportunities and planning, feasibility and design work and, where appropriate, unlocking derelict and redundant land for economic development.