The City of Edinburgh Council has started searching for a development partner to deliver hundreds of new homes in Fountainbridge.

Plans have been unveiled to redevelop a former brewery complex at the site into a new vibrant city quarter, featuring over 400 new homes across four blocks, along with office and retail elements.

The council owns 4.7 hectares of brownfield land at Fountainbridge, 1.2 hectares of which have already been used to build the new Boroughmuir High School, leaving the remaining land for mixed-use development.

The next Housing and Economy Committee will consider a report which will include options for the site to the east of Gilmore Park, which has been designated as office-led development in the masterplan. In addition, 0.57 hectares of land is being sold to Vastint Hospitality BV by the Council to enable their development, which will complement the place-making requirements of the wider masterplan.


Consideration is also being given as to how the industrial heritage of the site can be celebrated, with a refurbishment of the adjacent former North British Rubber Company works into a new home for Edinburgh Printmakers already underway.

An Energy Strategy for the site is also being developed, with the council aiming to introduce a district heating scheme if viable.

Work to prepare the site will commence early next year and the site is expected to be fuly developed by 2025.

Cllr Kate Campbell said: "Regeneration of Fountainbridge is hugely important for the city's economy. At the heart of this development is our aim to ensure that prosperity and growth benefits everyone, in every neighbourhood.

"The committee's decision is a huge step towards the transformation of Fountainbridge, making it an even more desirable place to live and work.”

Cllr Lezley Marion Cameron added: "I'm delighted that Fountainbridge will become home to a wide range of different house types and tenures so close to the city centre, which also includes a substantial element of social and family housing.

"Our aim is to create a successful and high quality mixed use development which balances residential, commercial and community uses in a sensible, sensitive and sustainable way."

(LM)