Changing house prices in Scotland
THE changing face of house price increases in Scotland over the last few years has seen the largest year-on-year increase at 16.2 per cent and…
Tag: Features + Opinion
A network of litter-picking hubs
GIVEN the resource challenges facing local authorities in Scotland – plus the reasonable question: Why only them? – our streets are never going to be…
There’s benefit in being a not-for-profit, Aythan Lewes
IN professional consultancy in construction, profit often takes precedence over purpose. However, at EALA Impacts community interest company (CIC), we have taken a different approach:…
Giving a day for one’s community, Mike Wilson
THE LOGIC of turning this idea into a nationwide phenomenon requires the relatively modest start of a single community offering itself as a pilot project.…
Retrofitting our economic approach in a time of climate emergency, Sarah Longlands
NEWS this week (here) from the Climate Change Committee – the independent, statutory body established under the Climate Change Act 2008 – that the UK…
A force to be reckoned with
WHEN it opened for business in 2012, it was lauded as the first public building in Scotland to be accredited with the exacting energy efficiency…
Do we really have the leadership skills to progress the ‘place-based agenda’?, Phil Prentice
place noun 1. a particular position, point, or area in space; a location HOME is across the sea – in Armagh, Northern Ireland – and I…
Creative placemaking – necessary, not just nice to have, Matt Baker
I WANT to start by saying something about creativity, in general. When I use using the word, ‘creativity’, I’m meaning a way of working that…
Tollcross maybe first, but how exactly?, Mike Wilson
HE was a fellow passenger on the overnight bus from Edinburgh to London. If I clocked his name at the time, I have long since…
The challenges and opportunities of ‘greening’ vacant and derelict land, Mike Batley
IT sounds seductively easy, instituting a nationwide programme that seeks to convert each and every plot of vacant and derelict land into a nature reserve.…