city, and enhance Edinburgh’s network of green Ambition Castlebrae spaces with a new park and woodland. School Greendykes The Edinburgh BioQuarter is a joint venture New NHS Car Parking The Scottish Government promotes better between: placemaking as one of its National Outcomes, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Craigmillar Castle New Greendykes encouraging the creation of “well-designed, Phase 4a Edge • Scottish Enterprise Masterplan sustainable places.” These are “vitally important Royal Infirmary of NHS Car Boundary • NHS Lothian Edinburgh Parking The Wisp to the social, environmental and economic • The University of Edinburgh success of our cities”. This is echoed in the City Phase 1 • Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc The Inch Phase 3 of Edinburgh Council’s Standards for Streets, Scottish Centre for at the heart of which is an imperative to create Located at Little France in the south east of Site for Royal Phase 2 The Chancellor’s Building Hospital for Sick Regenerative Medicine “good public realm quality in a consistent manner Children the city, the Edinburgh BioQuarter has been Phase 4 across the city.” identified by the Scottish Government as an Enterprise Zone, and by the City of Edinburgh Edmonstone Estate Moredun The purpose of the Masterplan is to create a Council as one of the key growth areas of the cohesive whole, connecting the various parts of Danderhall city. the Quarter together, and integrating it into its surroundings. It will create a coherent layout of Old Dalkieth Road The ambition of the BioQuarter is to create a world Queen’s Medical Research Institute Ferniehill Nine, Edinburgh BioQuarter streets, public spaces and landscapes within class environment for the Life Sciences. The Aerial photograph of the BioQuarter, indicating the phases of development a flexible structure that can adapt to unknown potential benefits of the Edinburgh BioQuarter future requirements. Masterplans like this need to the city and to Scotland as a whole are highly to be capable of incremental growth, and be significant in terms of the economy and job flexible enough to accommodate change. creation. A masterplan boundary has been agreed which Phase 1 comprises the Royal Infirmary of includes land owned by the partners, and the Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh’s City of Edinburgh Council (in blue). Craigmillar Castle Proposals for Medical School and other research buildings new Bus Stops (RIE/UofE). Phases 2–3 were approved in A more extensive SG boundary (in red) has also 2004 to accommodate a further 133,500m2 Proposals for the Anne SG Boundary been agreed which includes land outwith the Rowling Centre for Life Sciences and associated commercial partner’s ownership but which set the scene for development, where two buildings have been ideas that can feed into the Edinburgh Proposals completed (The University’s Scottish Centre Proposals for new Plan. for Regenerative Medicine and Building Nine). Greendykes Housing The new combined Hospital for Children and RIE/UofE The design team comprises: Young People, and the Department of Clinical SCRM Neuroscience have outline planning consent and Lead Designer & Masterplanner: are to be located on Phase 1 and demonstrate Allan Murray Architects the pressure for development on the Quarter Masterplan Boundary Planning Consultant and Agency Advice: as a whole: so, in 2009, Scottish Enterprise Nine, Edinburgh Scott Hobbs Planning BioQuarter purchased further land (Phase 4) to the south Proposals for the Royal Transportation: SKM Colin Buchanan Hospital for Sick Children east to ease the pressure on earlier phases. Environmental and Engineering Technical Input: WSP UK Limited On behalf of the partners, Scottish Enterprise is Landscape Design: now developing a new Masterplan for the whole Proposals for new John Richards Landscape Architect of the Edinburgh BioQuarter. Private Hospital Archaeology: CFA Archaeology Ltd Ecology: Nigel Rudd Ecology Edmonstone To fulfil the ambition of the BioQuarter to become Estate one of the top Life Sciences destinations in the This is a public consultation on the ideas being world, a new masterplan is being developed to Proposals for new Care Village developed for the masterplan. Please feel free to make sense of the Quarter as a whole and to comment on the forms provided, or get in touch create a new and vibrant part of the city – the at: [email protected], kind of environment that will attract people to or by post to Scott Hobbs Planning, 7a Alva work in, stay in, and visit. It will complement the Street, Edinburgh EH2 4PH urban regeneration elsewhere in this part of the Existing Situation with Adjacent Proposals Board 1 Potential secure link to Castlebrae School Greendykes Road To Hunter’s Hall Park 1 A new route could connect the Main Issues and and Jack Kane Centre 1 BioQuarter with the RIE/UofE Hawkhill Wood Niddrie Burn It could be aligned on a vista of Craigmillar Concepts Restoration Castle We have proposed some ideas for the Vista to It could be predominantly pedestrian, but Arthur’s Seat Potential development of the BioQuarter, and these are Woodland vehicle drop off on a shared surface is a presented graphically on this board. These NORTH Planting Craigmillar MEADOWS possibility include: Castle A new urban bridge over the existing canal • creating a more urban environment GREENDYKES could connect the land to the south-east more • creating a new urban park (the New Vista to Proposed Greendykes effectively Edinburgh Development egde To Cockenzie Power Meadows), with woodland areas between Castle Station It could connect small squares the BioQuarter and the new urban edge to Flood Plain Potential links to together Greendykes Greendykes • creating strong urban edges for the Vista to the 2 A new route could connect the north- BioQuarter onto the Edmonstone Estate, Old Vista to Forth 2 Dalkeith Road and the New Meadows Arthur’s Seat Vista to east portion of the BioQUarter to the RIE/ Craigmillar Existing Wall • creating new links between the RIE/UofE Castle Vista to UofE and the rest of the BioQuarter Craigmillar Improve water It could be aligned on a vista of Arthur’s Seat Castle • creating new links between the BioQuarter features It could be predominantly pedestrian, but and neighbouring parts of the city Visual “Green Link” vehicle drop off on a shared surface is a University of East to Shawfair Edinburgh New Bus possibility Of particular importance is developing a Stance Existing Trees It could connect small squares together coherent series of green spaces which could Royal Infirmary Little France Drive form an exciting part of Edinburgh’s network Entrance SOUTH MEADOWS of green spaces. The use of these spaces 33 A new road could connect the south- is important as are the links through Proposed Royal The Wisp SCRM eastern expansion lands for the BioQuarter and between them. Hospital for Sick 2 B Children 4 5 to Old Dalkeith Road A AA Opportunity to create new frontage It could emerge adjacent to the pedestrian onto Little France Drive Copse Planting link to Fernieside Drive The road and proposed tram arrangement Existing Canal 6 could be reworked to bring buildings forward Potential route to Nine, Edinburgh closer to the RIE/UofE. Frontages could be BioQuarter Site of Ancient Shawfair aligned here, with entrances off the street 1 Monument B C B Opportunity to create a new frontage onto the new Meadows 3 Existing ha-ha Little France Road Potential Danderhall 44 A new valley path could connect the Buildings could present gables onto the Extension Meadows, with landscaped spaces valley together Park It could connect Craigmillar Castle Road and between MOREDUN A series of links could connect the D Greendykes Road to the Wisp and beyond BioQuarter with a new Valley Route into the projected lands for Shawfair for pedestrians and bicycles It could be tree’d to form a pleasant avenue (like, for example, North Meadow Walk) Innundation North Area C Meadows Outline planning C Opportunity to create a new edge to Niddrie Burn consent for Private Corridor Hospital, Care Home 55 A new viewpoint could be enhanced the Edmonstone Estate and Care Village Landscaping could reinforce the existing trees Hawkhill Due to its elevation, vistas are possible of Woods DANDERHALL on the ha-ha wall which surrounds the estate Wood Craigmillar Castle, Edinburgh Castle and South Old Dalkeith Road Different types of uses could address this Meadows Arthur’s Seat edge such as terraced housing Attenuation Fernie Side Ponds Drive To the east, views open up towards the Forth Woods and Cockenzie Power Station Meadows and DD Opportunity to create a new urban Small Copses As a connecting node within the landscape, it frontage for the BioQuarter onto Old links potential paths in various directions Dalkeith Road FERNIEHILL Part of the existing stone wall and tree belt Edmonstone Home Farm site could be removed to allow building frontages 66 Edmonstone Opportunity for a special building near the site and entrances to address Old Dalkeith Road Estate Edmonstone Ridge Park of the ruined farm buildings Visual “Green Link” South to the Edmonstone Landscape Character Zones Drum Estate Board 2 Illustrative Options Hawkhill Woods Hawkhill Woods These are some of the illustrative options which North Meadows North Meadows could result from the concept ideas on Board Craigmillar Castle Craigmillar Castle 2. The building footprints and routes shown New shared surface Proposed route aligned to vista Proposed are only indicative of possible developments, Greendykes onto