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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.
exam time for Councillors!
08 Dec 2017
Councillor training on planning is back on the agenda, more than ever before. The draft Planning Bill published this week proposes: • compulsory planning training for Councillors • an examination for any Councillors involved in planning decisions At face value, those proposals are a pretty strong indictment. Improvement is needed....
Read More...real community planning in Lockerbie?
13 Nov 2017
[Image] Earlier this year, Lockerbie Community Council commissioned a Community Action Plan to support community-led activity aimed at improving the Lockerbie area as a place in which to live, work and visit. Following a public meeting in November 2016, a steering group was established comprising a number of Community Councillors...
Read More...barriers to community engagement in planning – an issue of trust
17 Aug 2017
[Image]When I first heard of the Scottish Government’s proposed research into barriers to engagement in planning - linked to the ongoing review of the planning system - I expected the barriers would relate to access to information, too much jargon, and outmoded communications channels like statutory notices. How wrong I...
Read More...Moffat's on the move
11 Apr 2017
[Image]Moffat is doing is what I call real town planning: a Community Action Plan that considers how to plan a better community in the round. Not just physical things like land use and buildings, but also how to directly support activity by the third sector, private sector and public sector....
Read More...delivery v engagement: a way through the tension?
21 Feb 2017
[Image] (This article was originally published on the RTPI Scotland blog and RTPI Scotland LinkedIn page on 21 February 2017.) A constant tension has been present in the Scottish Government’s Planning Review since it was announced in 2015: how can planning deliver more homes AND give communities more influence over...
Read More...it's official: young people are important
18 Jan 2017
In last week's consultation on the future of the Scottish planning system, the Scottish Government says that it will "bring forward proposals that will require planning authorities to consult more widely, including by using methods that are likely to involve children and young people in the process" (see page 21)....
Read More...'local place planning' | is this what the Planning Review envisaged?
05 Jan 2017
[Image] "Communities should be empowered to bring forward their own local place plans, and these should form part of the development plan." That was one of the recommendations of the Independent Review of the Scottish Planning System in May 2016 - recommendation 44, in fact. But what are 'local place...
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