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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.
planners as honest brokers
24 Dec 2016
[Image]How would you describe the job of a planner? Regulator? Facilitator? Broker? Manager? Mediator? Designer? Personally, I’m more of a broker. At the moment I’m brokering between people with different visions for Moffat: residents, public agencies, businesses and landowners. And elsewhere I’m brokering between different interests, too: between walking, cycling...
Read More...maximising planning's potential
24 Sep 2016
[Image] The Scottish Government’s planners are busy working on a new White Paper on planning reform, for publication by the end of the year. I think they should be congratulated for their innovative decision to draft the White Paper through co-production - a process which kicked off in mid September...
Read More...why we need to better integrate land-use and community planning in Scotland
18 Jul 2016
[Image]This article first appeared in RTPI Scotland's journal The Scottish Planner (June 2016 edition). Better integration of spatial planning and Community Planning has been a hot topic in national and local government for the last year couple of years. There’s been lots of high-level talk about improving integration, including in...
Read More...GUEST BLOG: Steven Tolson on housing access, capitalism and choice
09 Jun 2016
[Image]Thanks to Steven Tolson FRICS, chartered surveyor and past chairman of RICS Scotland, for this guest blogpost – an examination of land and housing in Scotland, outlining what needs to be addressed to increase housing delivery. Steven’s thoughts are timely, given the recent publication of the Review of the...
Read More...Lessons in community empowerment: Crianlarich
09 May 2016
[Image] It's not often that we planners get to see a plan being delivered on the ground - not, I hope, because they are undeliverable, but because it can take years for proposals to come to fruition. So it was with great delight that I headed up to Crianlarich last...
Read More...The politics of the planning profession
07 Apr 2016
This blog post first appeared in The Scottish Planner (April 2016 edition). Why is RTPI Scotland spending so much effort on the Scottish Government's Review of the Scottish Planning System and trying to influence Planning in the Next Parliament? At one level, the answer is obvious: to influence politicians, government, other...
Read More...How can planning contribute to wellness?
21 Jan 2016
BEFS (Built Environment Forum Scotland) this week organised an evening seminar asking: How can the planning system contribute to wellbeing in a fairer Scotland? Alongside Alex Neil MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Communities and Pensioners’ Rights and Sir Harry Burns, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Strathclyde, I was delighted to...
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