Waterfront Sustainability
The Master Plan is founded on seven sustainable development principles. These are:
At a strategic level, sustainable development is addressed in two ways. First, the scale and mix of development are balanced - including residential, employment, service, leisure, education, and community uses - so as to minimise the need to travel and to balance inward and outward movements. Secondly, the Master Plan complements the proposals to secure a strategic public transport link to the City centre.
Waterfront Granton provides an ideal opportunity to implement best practice, promote innovation and development of practical, leading edge, applications of solar and wind energy, combined heat and power, and other initiatives.
At the individual scheme level, the essential philosophy is a design-led approach to sustainable residential quality and, indeed, to other land uses. The landscape strategy involves protection and expansion of the varied wildlife and ecology, and the increased natural shelter from the elements.