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Archive
Welcome to dedicated archive chronicaling all of the analysis and projects posts published on the site to date. You can easily navigate through the archive chronologically by clicking the below years.
young people in planning | TAYplan leading the way
20 Oct 2013
TAYplan, one of Scotland’s four Strategic Development Planning authorities, have been doing some interesting work in recent years. Their latest Strategic Development Plan for Dundee, Perth, Angus and north Fife won the Royal Town Planning Institute’s top award last year, the Silver Jubilee Cup; not bad for a plan that was produced on a tight budget...
Read More...what our town centres really need
23 Sep 2013
I’ve only caught one episode of BBC2′s Robert Peston Goes Shopping, but I’m glad I did. It sharpened my unease about the much vaunted “death” of the High Street. There are two facts that tend to get lost in this debate. “Fact one: High Streets have always been places of change. The...
Read More...collaborative approaches to town centres: what should planners do differently?
12 Sep 2013
This article was published in the Scottish Planner (August 2013), the journal of RTPI Scotland. I was RTPI Scotland’s representative on the Fraser Review of town centres, which reported to the Scottish Government in July 2013. The government’s response is due at the end of September 2013. But most importantly, the planning system cannot nurture...
Read More...making the most of opportunities
13 Aug 2013
This post was written for RTPI Scotland to outline what I learnt from representing RTPI Scotland on the Scottish Government’s Town Centres Review Advisory Group. Last year, I was lucky enough to be invited to represent RTPI Scotland on the Scottish Government’s Fraser Review of town centres. I jumped at the opportunity: it’s not every day that...
Read More...Scotland’s town centres | how can planning help?
09 Mar 2013
The Scottish Government’s Town Centre Review External Advisory Group is due to report to Ministers in April. I’ve been representing RTPI Scotland on the Group. Here’s my update on what the review is likely to mean for planners. This article was also published in the March 2013 edition of the Scottish Planner. Last summer, Scottish...
Read More...Haddington youth enquiry | young people shaping their place
01 Feb 2013
Haddington in East Lothian is busy co-producing the future of its town centre – building a bright future by businesses, local authority and the community working together to plan and delivery change. It’s an exciting initiative, not least because of the increasing collaboration and power-sharing that’s taking place, as I explain here.The framework...
Read More...East Lothian Rural Voice | pointers for integrated policy
26 Jan 2013
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about a fresh’n’lo approach to rural planning. It described a pioneering public/private sector collaborative approach to informing the next generation of rural planning policy in East Lothian, with the objective of encouraging more rural investment, more diverse and sustainable rural economies, and thriving...
Read More...power-sharing in place-making
07 Jan 2013
Over the last five years, co-production and collaboration have become popular – the concepts of people and organisations working together to make better places, with a focus on action. For some examples, look through the case studies in the excellent Compendium for the Civic Economy or the winning projects of last month’s SURF...
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