Our prominent waterfront development at Chestnut Street in Granton has been shortlisted for ‘Social Housing Development of the Year (over 100 units)’ at the Scottish Home Awards 2025!

Chestnut Street addresses local housing needs, with the provision of 306 sustainable and affordable modern homes with communal amenities and private green spaces. The development provides a broad spectrum of homes, creating a neighbourhood that caters to a wide range of residents and families in order to meet all the housing needs of this growing community. The mixed tenure include social rent, mid-market rent homes, a care and support home for young people.

The masterplan strategy focused on enhancing existing links and forming new routes. It aimed to rationalise and encourage pedestrian movement through the site. One of the key considerations in the design was the relationship between public and private open areas, due to the site’s proximity to industrial areas, a busy road and other neighbourhoods. These boundaries are well defined to create secure, safe and attractive spaces. The shared gardens are exclusive to residents, to help develop a sense of community.

Open spaces and extensive ‘public realm’ throughout the proposal provide quality, attractive and safe places to gather, be active, be passive, or converse. This helps to generate a sense of ownership and stewardship.

We thank our clients and partners who have made it possible;

Harbour Homes

Cairn Housing Association

Dean and Cauvin Young People's Trust

CCG

Bayne Stevenson Associates Ltd

The Keenan Consultancy

Wardell Armstrong

Aecom

Carbon Futures

Brown & Wallace

RMP

Good luck to all the other shortlisted projects!

We are pleased that our hotel development has received a granted planning permission!

The 51-bed hotel which rescues and repurposes a Category B listed Georgian terrace building centrally located on Picardy Place, within Edinburgh’s New Town Conservation Area and Edinburgh’s Old and New Town World Heritage Site.

The conversion and extension address a building that suffered from extensive brutal alteration to form a reinforced parking garage for a car hire company.
The proposal alters the non-original concrete frame to introduce an open inner courtyard which allows natural light to penetrate to all floors down to the lower ground level, a reference towards the former rear garden that once served the main townhouse.
Rooms wrap around this new source of natural light at the heart of the building; a basement area to the front is reinstated along with a contemporary ground floor entrance and the Georgian façade is to be fully restored.

We are settling well in our new bright premises in Commercial Quay and enjoying our new vibrant neighbourhood.

Hackland Dore are pleased that our mixed-use development for J.Smart & Co (Contractors) Plc has been granted planning approval after receiving unanimous support at planning committee.

The 120 unit development, developed alongside HarrisonStevens and McGregor McMahon Consulting Engineers, incorporates substantial new green spaces with a strong focus on bio-diversity, and active travel infrastructure, to the former brown field site on the Water of Leith.

With its mix of commercial space, colony homes and flats, including 25% being provided for social rent, the scheme will deliver a vibrant new neighbourhood in the West of Edinburgh.

Great to receive recognition that the team and applicant have made a huge effort to accommodate an extensive new active travel route whilst also safeguarding the future provision of a new pedestrian bridge.

Happy New Year from the H+D team!