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
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…
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.…
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…
Edinburgh’s ‘ghost signs’, Leila Kean
I CAN vividly remember the first ever ‘ghost sign’ I saw in Edinburgh. Our family had just moved to Bruntsfield Place, and there, as I…
Scotland’s empty homes, Andy Moseley
SCOTLAND is facing a housing emergency. A chronic shortage of housing is leading to increasing numbers of people in temporary accommodation and longer housing waiting…
In pursuit of high placemaking standards at Alloa’s Primrose Street
THIS was meant to be a feature about designing for dementia, as it applied to a new residential apartment block in the middle of the…
Possible funding sources (a work in progress)
IT takes patient detective work, to collate the various funding pots out there, for organisations looking to finance ‘improvements’ to our places in Scotland. Whether…
Why heat networks are the answer, Simon Kerr
IT is a welcome move, indeed, the Scottish Government’s request of every local authority in the land, that they submit plans (by the end of…
Peatlands: the jewels in Scotland’s crown, Sue Walker
OVER a fifth of Scotland is covered with the soft brown hues of our peatlands, streaked with the yellows, greens and pinks of the mosses…