What chance a modular homes factory in Scotland? Steve Cole
The chances of a modular homes factory being set up in Scotland? After being recently quoted imagining factories popping up all over the UK (here),…
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Delivering the latest national planning framework requires a mindset shift, Steven Tolson
THE Scottish Government’s most recent Programme for Government (here) highlights the importance of achieving net-zero, improving health and wellbeing, and creating a fairer and greener…
Place and Scottish Government announcements (a work-in-progress list)
IT requires a fair amount of patient detective work to pin down the various Scottish Government documents that range across the subject of ‘place design’.…
A plan for sustainable development in Edinburgh, James Dalgleish
LAST week – at the planning committee of The City of Edinburgh Council – we agreed City Plan 2030, a progressive and sustainable plan to…
The ‘affordable’ housing answer that has blown in on the wind
IT helps to be a community close by a trio of wind farms, whose owners are committed to paying an annual community dividend. And blowing…
The worrying state of Glasgow’s architectural heritage, Thierry Lye
IT’S becoming mainstream to discuss Glasgow’s built environment and the worrying state of its architectural heritage. Growing up in Georgetown, an UNESCO World Heritage site…
Assessing the environmental impact of building and infrastructure plans, Mike Wilson
THIS is primarily an appeal for help. It follows the presentation (here), to the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday, of the latest, draft version of Scotland’s…
Rose Street: food and drink
ALTHOUGH it’s not explicitly marketed as such, Edinburgh’s Rose Street can reasonably lay claim to be Edinburgh’s ‘food and drink street’. But it’s an ever-changing…
District design lessons from Copenhagen
IT began with a scoping exercise, which fed into the brief of an ideas competition, and continues with constant dialogue with the general public. Some…
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…