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    Tag: Opinion

    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.…

    admin May 19, 2023

    Step by step, brick by brick, we’re getting there, Jane Meagher

    Jane Meagher is Scottish Labour councillor for Portobello / Craigmillar in Edinburgh, and convener of the city council’s Housing, Homelessness and Fair Work committee. She…

    admin May 12, 2023

    Coworking to build community, Claire Carpenter

    WEDNESDAY was an auspicious day for people in my line of work. It was the first European Coworking Day – here – and it couldn’t…

    admin May 12, 2023

    Time for a national institution to take the lead in placemaking?, Prof Stuart Gulliver

    THERE’S a reasonable case to be made that, in Scotland, we have undergone two ‘built environment’ revolutions since the Second World War. The first, immediately…

    admin May 5, 2023
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    Shifting from consultation to co-production with communities, Nick Wright

    IF there is broad consensus that it is fundamentally a good thing to include communities in delivering ‘good’ neighbourhoods (and that this is preferable to…

    admin April 28, 2023

    Litter: the solution is in everyone’s hands, Laura Watson

    PRIOR to joining the charity, Keep Scotland Beautiful, last year, I spent the better part of the previous decade travelling to various location across Britain…

    admin April 14, 2023

    We need ‘place leads’ embedded in every local authority, Irene Beautyman

    WE do not have the luxury of time to deal with one crisis at a time. We need a win for climate change, a win…

    admin March 10, 2023

    More homes at the heart of great places, Mhairi Donaghy

    SCOTTISH society was built around towns and villages. From the traditional clan system to today’s modern settlements, we’re a sociable nation that thrives on community…

    admin March 3, 2023

    Pull the carbon from under your very sustainable building, Steve Webb

    THE honey tone of your exposed Douglas Fir frame proudly proclaims sustainability and a planet-loving rapprochement with nature; but under the ground lurks a dirty…

    admin February 24, 2023

    Britain’s economic slowdown, the role of housing and land, and what to do with it, Prof Ken Gibb

    IN the last few weeks, two eminent broadsheet columnists coincidentally produced dovetailing pieces about the strategic need to remake housing policy.  Will Hutton, in the Observer…

    admin February 17, 2023
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