Greendykes South

Greendykes South Project Images
Greendykes South Project Images
Greendykes South Project Images

The approved Greendykes South Masterplan complements and completes AREA’s 2006 masterplan for Greendykes North.

The southern part of PARC’s regeneration of Craigmillar Edinburgh, the masterplan incorporates 170 - 200 new homes with potential for local retail and commercial spaces to meet local community needs on a 3.75ha brownfield site.

The masterplan aims to create a pleasant and high quality living environment with well-designed shared space streets that prioritise pedestrian and cycle movements. The residential blocks are designed around designated open spaces and desire lines; creating an accessible neighbourhood. A coherent structure of habitable streets and spaces, with a renewed sense of local identity, will complete the vision and carry through the aspirations for Greendykes as a whole.

A carefully designed range of houses, duplexes and apartments will support the creation of a lively and active setting for community life. A place where quality of life, health and wellbeing are at the forefront. Along Greendykes Road a reinterpretation of the traditional Edinburgh colony is used to mediate between the existing and proposed ground levels. A raised ground floor flat and rear garden is combined with a two storey family duplex and roof terrace accessed from Greendykes Road. These provide a well defined frontage and enclosure to Greendykes Road with an attractive layering of thresholds, staircases, gardens and active frontages, stimulating opportunities for street activity. Elsewhere in the masterplan are a mixture of two and three storey townhouses with a small number of apartments over retail in the north-east corner of the site.