£160m announced for two Scots ‘Investment Zones’
LOCAL leaders, businesses and universities are to take “the lead in shaping and developing specific plans”, in how to spend a combined £160m in Greater…
Category: Economics
Views sought on tax relief proposal for Green Freeports
VIEWS are being sought, whether non-domestic buildings planned for economic zones being set up around the Firth of Forth and the Moray Firth be ‘incentivised’…
Community wealth-building found to have benefitted from government procurement
AN estimated 120,000 jobs in Scotland have been supported by the way the Scottish Government has allocated its spending. According to research (here) commissioned by…
Views sought on community wealth-building
VIEWS are being sought on proposals to help grow local economies and ensure more money stays in the hands of communities. The Scottish Government has…
Scots ‘Green Freeports’ announced
GEOGRAPHICAL areas in the vicinity of Inverness and Edinburgh have been named winners of a bidding process, to establish so-called ‘Green Freeports’ in Scotland. Bids…
Placing community wealth-building at the heart of economic planning, Tom Arthur MSP
SCOTLAND has extraordinary economic potential. Our natural resources, talent, creativity, innovation, academic institutions and business base are held in high regard across the world. This is recorded…
River Clyde identified as possible ‘Green Freeport’
A BID is to be submitted that – if successful – would see the River Clyde become the focal point of a major air, sea…
Data to be deployed to help shape town centres in and around Glasgow
USING data to help shape the future of towns in and around Glasgow city centre, plus the city centre itself, has been identified in a…
Scots cities invited to bid for funding, to help in post-COVID recovery
SCOTS cities and regions are being apply for new funding from the Scottish Government, to help them recover from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Says a…
A ‘Preston Model’ for Scotland’s towns and cities?, Dr Julian Manley
IT is basic, common sense. If your neighbour were to rear chickens, you wouldn’t think twice about buying some eggs from them, as a show…