Edinburgh’s BioQuarter will be a mixed-use, urban neighbourhood centred around a community of healthcare innovators and providers.

The BioQuarter partners: Scottish Enterprise, the University of Edinburgh, NHS Lothian, and City of Edinburgh Council appointed LUC to lead the Landscape Masterplan Vision and Placemaking Strategy.

Our work will support the allocation of the site as mixed-use in the City Plan 2030.

Edinburgh BioQuarter is a £750 million transformational vision for Edinburgh.

It is creating a new city health innovation district to support a community of over 20,000 people living, working and studying in the area. 

The district’s vision is based around active travel, health and wellbeing. Its vital role in leading medical research and health innovation improves lives around the world and attracts huge investment opportunities.

LUC’s teams produced the Landscape Masterplan for the evolving site.

This landscape core will create a vibrant and strongly defined sense of place. It will retain elements such as mature existing trees while integrating new development and connecting to neighbouring communities.

The masterplan will create more space for research, healthcare businesses, retail, hotels, and leisure facilities.

It incorporates ambitious sustainability targets and promotes connectivity within the site and with the wider city. It aims to create a sense of community and a more sustainable way of living and working.