Edinburgh now has a unique opportunity to create a city waterfront of international stature. The Master Plan for Waterfront Granton provides both the vision and the development framework needed to realise this opportunity. It aims to establish Waterfront Granton as one of the world's great waterfronts for living, working, learning and leisure.

The sheer scale of Waterfront Granton is dramatic; at 140 hectares (345 acres) it is as large as Holyrood Park. The splendid setting overlooking the Firth of Forth can be exploited to turn this currently rundown, derelict and "hidden" corner of the City into a major attraction and destination.

The site itself is magnificent. Along nearly three kilometres of the water's edge, this terraced site looks out across the Firth and historic Granton Harbour to Fife, the North Sea and west to the splendid Forth Bridges.

Waterfront Granton is a place that will involve and benefit the existing communities of Granton and will attract investment in a full range of employment opportunities. Additionally, housing, leisure, cultural and community developments will supplement the mix.

The Master Plan is designed to:

• deliver a comprehensive and viable regeneration plan which will help reinforce Edinburgh's role as a major international City - a waterfront city;
• propose enough new development to support a high-quality, higher density living and working environment which can help to make Waterfront Granton buzz and come to life; and
• ensure that the redevelopment of Waterfront Granton is fully integrated - socially as well as physically - with the neighbouring communities of North Edinburgh and that it will contribute to their regeneration.

Within this framework, Waterfront Granton will comprise four distinct and characteristic urban quarters:

• Granton Village and Harbour, which can revitalise the old heart of the quarter around Granton Square with a new local centre and harbour-related development;
• the Park, with development framing an extended public open space incorporating the historic house of Caroline Park;
• the Plateau, which creates a focus for prestigious business development in conjunction with the second local centre;
• the Foreshore, as a residential development along this magnificent waterfront with its views over the Forth.