The Masterplan · Kilifi, Kenya
A green city growing on the Kenyan coast
Green Heart Kilifi is a 50-year plan for vibrant, walkable neighbourhoods inside a living, restored landscape — four kilometres south of Kilifi town, between two tidal creeks.
The Idea
Concentrate life.
Conserve the rest.
Most developments spread thin and pave everything. Green Heart does the opposite: homes, shops and schools cluster into walkable villages so that most of the land stays green — farmed, forested, and open to everyone.
How people live drives the biggest environmental problems of our time. This is a place designed to help its residents live well — and lightly — and to inspire others to do the same.
of the land kept green & open
trees already planted
more planted every year
longest walk to a park
Mango, neem, strangler fig, sisal — the palette of a working coastal landscape.
Five Commitments
What the plan promises
The Plan · Structure
A structure with a legible logic
The first two land tranches — fully owned by Green Heart Kilifi — are built on a three-tier structure: macroblocks framed by tree-lined arterial roads, subdivided by collector roads into blocks, and again by 12-metre streets into sub-blocks of homes.
Each macroblock runs from public to private — lively, mixed-use edges on the main roads easing to a quiet residential heart, anchored by a public place: a park, the Eco Hub, a school. On foot you meet a choice of route roughly every 100 metres. The arterial roads are aligned to follow the site's existing tree lines, so mature trees — its aged baobabs among them — are kept and built around rather than cleared, and every block is drawn to be legible and independently buildable from day one.
Open and gated living coexist by design. Where a community wants security, the gates sit inside the boundary rather than as a wall around it — so the streets stay public, walkable and alive either way. Security is run by Leafy Keys, a joint venture between Green Heart and a resident.
The Plan · Streets
Streets built for people
Five street types, each tree-lined and each designed for walking first — from the 26-metre arterial with cycle lanes and a planted bioswale median, down to 8-metre lanes where cars simply don't go. You meet a crossing or a choice of route roughly every 100 metres on foot — and you can cross the whole site without ever touching a motorised road.
Mobility by the numbers
Built from the ground they stand on. The roads are laid in earthen and coral blocks, the material mostly sourced on site or within 15 km — waste from a nearby quarry, spoil from Green Heart's own construction, even household waste processed on site. Surfaces start compacted and are upgraded street by street as each one earns it.
The Plan · Landscape & Water
A landscape that works
A deep green corridor wraps the south and west of the site down to Takaungu Creek — conservation land you can walk and cycle through. Inside the neighbourhoods, a green network follows the natural waterlines, threading parks, shade routes and playgrounds between the blocks, with the organic farm preserved on the western edge.
Water runs the design: rooftops and streets capture rain; greywater is treated and reused on the landscape; the ground is shaped to slow, store and clean runoff before it ever reaches the creeks.
Nearly half of the walkable urban village — around 49% — is held as public or shared open space, from the fully public park to the shared gardens between homes:
The Walkable Urban Village
A town you can live in, on foot
The heart of Green Heart — homes, shops, schools and workspaces woven together so daily life happens on foot. We're building it over the next seven years with CPS Africa, anchored by the Eco Hub: the village's centre for food, gathering, learning and clean energy, with the organic farm, the central park and Kivukoni's schools all a short walk away. Explore the Eco Hub →
Three home typologies bring the streets to life — and Green Heart Village maisonettes can be built to order here too.
Across the village, 464 homes — 252 CheiChei, 168 Moyoni and 38 Horizon — sit alongside six Eco Hub commercial bays, home to around 1,200 residents at full build. No home is more than a five-minute walk from a major shared amenity.
Five things anchor the village
The village itself — Phase 1 of the wider plan — is built in four stages over roughly five to six years, starting with a sales-and-show stage and the road, farm, park and Eco Hub, then growing outward. A generous parcel in the western block is deliberately left unprogrammed, held in reserve for what the community shows it needs.
Our build partner, CPS Africa, created Fumba Town in Zanzibar — East Africa's first sustainable urban community and an African Property Award winner. The home names are Swahili: Chei Chei (growth), Moyoni (at the heart) and Horizon — what the village is building toward.
The Neighbourhoods
Three neighbourhoods, selling now
Around the village, three distinct neighbourhoods are already taking shape — each with its own character, and each at a different moment in its life.
Prefer a finished home? Maisonettes and duplexes can be built to order — in the village, at Green Heart Village, or at Tuli Gardens.
The Plan · Daily Life
Everything within a walk
Green Heart doesn't start from zero. The Food Movement, Kivukoni's primary and secondary schools, the Roho Mezcal sisal distillery, the organic farm and the Beneath the Baobabs festival grounds are already here — the plan grows a village around them, adding an open-air commercial centre, Baobab Park, a sports centre, a dairy farm and creek access to Takaungu. Learning, sport, culture, farming and commerce — and every one within walking distance of every early-phase resident.
The Plan · Grounded in Demand
Built on what people here want
This isn't a guess. Market research across 28 estates in the Kilifi area, and a survey of local households, shaped the plan. Asked what matters most in a community, people were clear:
85% would take quality shared amenities over a bigger private plot — which is exactly the model Green Heart is built on. Within a 45-minute reach of the site live around 422,000 people across seven towns and villages: the neighbours this place is for.
The Plan · Phasing
The first 18 years
The two tranches build out over roughly eighteen years, in seven phases — one complete piece at a time, sequenced in adjacencies and never sprawling ahead of demand. The first three phases are fully designed; the rest are deliberately held open. Sales open December 2026.
The Living Landscape
Shared with 10,000 other residents
From fiddler crabs on the creek flats to butterflies in the restored forest, the plan treats wildlife as residents too. The green corridor links Kilifi Creek to Takaungu Creek — mangroves, seasonal streams and forest in one continuous, protected thread that keeps both creeks healthy and the coast resilient.
Powering it is the Green Heart tree nursery — a joint venture with a resident — propagating more than 1,000 indigenous species, regenerating the green corridor and supplying landscaping, garden and nursery services and plants to the whole town and its residents. Visit the Tree Nursery →
The Framework · Density & Zoning
Density, placed with intention
To keep almost three-quarters of the land green, the plan concentrates homes and activity where they make streets walkable and sociable — and eases off toward the gardens, the farm and the conservation land. Five steps of density, each zoned to a purpose.
Alongside the residential gradient, the plan zones a mixed-use commercial core, protected conservation land along the creeks, and agricultural preservation land for the farm — so the town, its food and its wild edges each keep a permanent place.
The Framework · What's Fixed, What Flexes
What the plan guarantees — and what can evolve
Green Heart is a framework, not a rigid blueprint. Some things are firm commitments you can count on. Others are deliberately left open, so the town can grow with the market, with the right partners, and with how people actually want to live.
Prescribed — count on it
Flexible — shaped over time
The Framework · Covenants & the Land Shield
Protected by covenant
In November 2023, Green Heart's founding land company registered a Master Declaration of Mutual Covenants and Conditions — a binding legal charter that runs with the land and every home on it, in perpetuity. Two bodies guard it: Land Shield, which holds and protects the land, and the Takaungu Regeneration Project (TRP), which stewards the Green Heart, manages its shared spaces and enforces its standards — all measured against the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Because the covenants run with the land, they bind every owner, occupier and successor from the moment they take an interest — they cannot be quietly undone. The full declaration is available on request.
The Framework · Infrastructure
Built to last — power, water & wastewater
A green city has to work as an engineered system, not just look like one. Green Heart's services are designed to be resilient, low-impact and scalable — starting lean and growing with the village, with sustainability built into every building from the first phase.
The Local Economy · Circular by Design
Built by Kilifi, for Kilifi
Green Heart is designed to keep as much value as possible on the land and in the community around it. Wherever it's feasible we build with local people and local materials rather than importing labour and trucking in supplies — training and partnering with residents, quarrying and manufacturing on site, and turning our own waste back into resources. It is vertical integration in the service of local economic development: the quarry, the block yard, the compost and the workshop feed one another, so jobs, skills and spend compound here rather than leaking away.
The same principle runs through everything — from the tree nursery to the art projects: use what is already here — people, materials, even waste — before reaching for anything imported.
The Long Horizon
Green Heart City — a 2070 vision
Beyond the land Green Heart holds today lies a larger canvas: roughly 3,650 acres of old plantation lands stretching north toward Kilifi town. We don't control that land yet — and this plan is honest about it.
What we have done is draw the long game — the same principles, extended to a whole eco-city: not a village, not a sprawling suburb, but jobs, homes and commerce co-existing with restored habitat and food. The same 72% green commitment holds across the full site — a third of it permanently protected land and agriculture — with only 20% built and 8% roads.
And the same water-led logic: green corridors follow the land's natural drainage, protecting the freshwater aquifer and keeping the tree-lined arterials up to 8°C cooler than their surroundings, as density steps down through five zones from the highway edge to the quiet creek.
This is a direction, not a promise. The first 18 years stand entirely on their own.
For the Curious
Explore the drawings
The complete masterplan drawing set by Fitted Projects — every plan, diagram and section. Tap any drawing to view it full screen.
The Green Heart Ecosystem
One community, many places
Green Heart is already alive — a working community with places and services you can use today. Wherever you're coming from, here's where to go next.
Green Heart Services
Manage everything Green Heart in one place — your home, your services, requests and payments. The single front door for residents.
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