Reserve interest
Illustrative Dunottar civic and market heart design study

City system · Live + work + learn + heal + play

A city is more than a housing count.

Dunottar’s current plan combines 9,580 residential stands with commercial and industrial land, schools, institutional sites, roads and open space. The strategic proposition is to turn those allocations into one productive, connected urban ecosystem.

Current plan programme · Strategic city-system brief
612.32 haSource-plan area9,905Planned stands + sites

01 · Integrated city system

Live. Work. Learn. Heal. Play.

The Ministry presentation frames a world-class city as an ecosystem rather than a residential development. The current Dunottar plan already provides a real spatial programme against which that proposition can be tested.

LIVE

9,580 residential stands + 58 flat sites

Housing at multiple densities, connected to daily services and public realm.

PLAN-DERIVED PROGRAMME
WORK

82 commercial + 81 industrial sites

A productive city requires enterprise, services, employment and investment alongside homes.

PLAN-DERIVED PROGRAMME
LEARN

12 school sites

Nine primary and three secondary school sites are carried in the current plan.

PLAN-DERIVED PROGRAMME
HEAL

47 institutional sites

Institutional land provides capacity for civic and social services; the exact health programme requires confirmation.

PLAN + PROGRAMME TO CONFIRM
PLAY

43.63 ha open space

Green corridors, recreation, shade and public space are treated as city infrastructure.

PLAN-DERIVED PROGRAMME

02 · Productive urban capacity

Housing has to be matched by work, services and public life.

The plan records 82 commercial sites and 81 industrial sites alongside the residential programme. That creates the basis for a city that can host enterprise and employment rather than operate only as a consumption settlement.

The exact tenant mix, operators, investment structure and delivery sequence are future commercial and feasibility decisions; they are not implied by the land-use count alone.

82commercial sitesplan-stated
81industrial sitesplan-stated
47institutional sitesplan-stated
12school sitesplan-stated
Illustrative Dunottar civic campus
Civic campus · illustrative future form

03 · Civic + social infrastructure

Land allocation is only the first step.

The current plan provides institutional and school sites. Turning those sites into schools, health services, civic facilities, sport and other public functions requires operators, service models, capital, approvals and infrastructure. The spatial model keeps those future decisions attached to place.

04 · Explore by urban function

Use the same map to test different city questions.

Each route below changes the spatial lens, not the underlying city. That makes Dunottar useful as a common engagement surface for local government, communities, investors and delivery partners.

Evidence boundaryPlan provision does not by itself confirm that a school, health facility, business, park or other service is funded, approved, operating or available. Strategic programme intent and current delivery status remain separate evidence states.