As part of a pilot project to profile sustainable communities, Forward Scotland commissioned CAG Consultants to appraise the sustainability of four Scottish communities: Salsburgh in North Lanarkshire, Portobello on the eastern side of Edinburgh, Braemar in rural Aberdeenshire and Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis. The objective in conducting these appraisals is to seek to understand how sustainable these communities are and how sustainable the plans in place to improve quality of life in those areas are likely to be, given the sustainability assets of the area.