What chances 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’.…
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…
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…
Edinburgh’s post-war listed buildings
SOME 70 post-war buildings in Edinburgh have been awarded a historic listing. As of August 22, when the data was last compiled by listings managers…
Setting up a Stove
MIX a group of artists and an empty town centre building and the resulting alchemy is potentially a version of The Stove Network, the highly-lauded…
To know your soil is to know your garden
IF trial and error is a reflection of having an inquiring mind, when it comes to one’s garden, Dr Liz Lakin is all for it.…
The Inch: Edinburgh’s ‘Garden City’
WE were that family. Over the decades, five generations living in what The Scotsman newspaper described as the worst slum in the city. The bottom…