Scotland's burgeoning capital is also the setting for one of Britain's largest urban regeneration initiatives, which sees National Grid Property working alongside Waterfront Edinburgh Ltd to revitalise Granton and exploit its location advantages.
Click the image above for a 360° view of the Granton site.
The planning application submitted to council sees National Grid promoting a mixed-use development for its Granton site, which could help create more than 5,000 jobs.
National Grid's scheme includes the construction of up to 2000 new homes, developing up to 75,000 square metres of business space, building a new Granton local centre with up to 10,500 square metres of mixed retail, commercial and restaurant/bar facilities, constructing up to 30,000 square metres for education use, creating around 8 hectares of public open space as a new Granton Links Park - almost half the size of Leith Links - as well as a woodland area and pond.
Also in National Grid's development blueprint for the site are planned public transport interchange facilities, site provision for a new primary school, the retention of the listed gatehouse on the gasworks site, and re-engineering all Transco gas pipework and construction of replacement pressure reduction stations.
Enabling works to re-route National Grid's 48-inch gas main which runs alongside West Granton Road have already begun, and initial demolition works to remove a number of redundant buildings on the 100-year-old gasworks site have been carried out.
Associated with the multi-million pound development works would be one of the biggest possible visual uplifts to Edinburgh's coastal skyline, which will be achieved with the demolition and removal of the two 275-feet gasholders that dominate the entire Waterfront area.
