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Expertise / Masterplan

Building the future

Great masterplans create places that are both functional and beautiful. Community sits at the heart of every masterplan we design, enhancing lives with great places. We adopt an integrated and thoughtful architectural approach to create neighbourhoods where people and nature can thrive.

Masterplanning and visioning

Our team has extensive masterplanning experience across Scotland and the UK, often involving technically, politically and culturally complex sites. We work with clients including numerous local authorities and housing associations to deliver high profile masterplans, including Granton Waterfront here in Edinburgh and the town centre masterplan in Stranraer. Using best placemaking practice, we provide design-led solutions, drawing on our residential, civic and conservation expertise to ensure a deliverable response for our clients and the existing and future community.

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Stobhill & Lady Victoria Masterplan
  • Community, Consultation, Heritage, Strategy
Newtongrange

From strategy to detailed design

Collaboration and communication are key to successful masterplanning. We lead teams of multi-disciplinary experts, ensuring challenges and complexities are successfully managed. Our residential experience ensures we bring a detailed understanding of planning and delivery of residential developments as well as the facilities, streets and green spaces that support thriving communities. Our commitment to quality service means our clients can trust that we have the expertise to provide creative, but commercially sound solutions to even the most complex masterplanning challenges.

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Nevis Mountain Resort Masterplan
  • Landscape, Leisure, Public
Fort William

Comprehensive experience

From waterfront redevelopment to town centres and large scale residential, we pride ourselves on our quality of service, creativity and commercial acumen on every masterplan we design or deliver. We have experience of multiple areas of masterplanning, including;

  • Community engagement and co-design
  • Towns
  • Strategy
  • Planning
  • Placemaking
  • Landscape

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Stranraer Waterfront Masterplan
Stranraer
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Smith Scott Mullan have played a key role in developing the design of Phase 1 of this nationally significant development, supporting Cruden Homes in working with The City of Edinburgh Council to help deliver a vibrant new neighbourhood for the city. They have engaged in a comprehensive pre-application process involving a wide range of stakeholders, whilst coordinating four different client briefs, and have provided a professional and pragmatic service throughout. Their strong design ethos and expertise in masterplanning have created different character areas on the site which will support the creation of an attractive, safe and accessible living environment for all residents.
Shona Wilson
Project Director, 
Cruden Homes

Our Masterplan specialists

Experts in designing and delivering complex masterplans, our senior team is hands-on throughout.

Eugene Mullan

Architect, Urban Designer, & Director
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