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		<title>Scotland&#8217;s town centres  &#124;  how can planning help?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 19:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Scottish Government’s Town Centre Review External Advisory Group is due to report to Ministers in April. I&#8217;ve been representing RTPI Scotland on the Group. Here&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haddington youth enquiry &#124; young people shaping their place</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haddington in East Lothian is busy co-producing the future of its town centre &#8211; building a bright future by businesses, local authority and the community working together to plan and delivery change. It&#8217;s an exciting initiative, not least because of the increasing collaboration and power-sharing that&#8217;s taking place, as I explain here. The framework for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>East Lothian Rural Voice &#124; pointers for integrated policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 rural communities. Now, Richard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>power-sharing in place-making</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last five years, co-production and collaboration have become popular &#8211; 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&#8217;s SURF regeneration awards. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the fresh’n&#8217;lo approach to rural planning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 09:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I wrote about refreshing rural planning policy to encourage more rural investment, more diverse and sustainable rural economies, and thriving rural communities. Since then, respected Haddington-based surveyors and architects Chalmers &#038; Co have taken the lead in moving this agenda forward in East Lothian. The firm spotted what they saw as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“managed decline”… put it in the dustbin!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of days, I&#8217;ve twice come across the thought that towns and neighbourhoods that have &#8216;outlived their economic usefulness&#8217; should have a policy of &#8216;managed decline&#8217;. For years I&#8217;ve thought that the UK planning system isn&#8217;t well set up for helping places that are struggling economically; places near me like Port Glasgow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>how Haddington is fulfilling its potential</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Urban Animation, WMUD, Dhu Rural and I have recently completed the Haddington town centre vision – a fascinating six month project which we believe offers a model for other town centres around the country to make the most of their assets, and get public, private and community sectors working together in a way which builds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>community empowerment and planning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 15:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Scottish Government is currently consulting on its proposed Community Empowerment and Renewal Bill; this paper is a contribution to that discussion. It has been jointly written with Hugh Moore, who has been chair of Giffnock Community Council in East Renfrewshire for a number of years. As well as being Community Councillors, both Hugh and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>making the most of what people tell us</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/?p=913</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This article was written jointly with Drew Mackie of Drew Mackie Associates, who supply support services in community consultation and qualitative research in regeneration. The article was published in the June 2012 edition of the Royal Town Planning Institute Scotland&#8217;s journal Scottish Planner. Much of the current debate on community engagement in planning revolves around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Biggar Agenda  &#124;  three lessons for other places</title>
		<link>http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/the-biggar-agenda-three-lessons-for-other-places.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 23:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/?p=885</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Working with Kevin Murray Associates, WMUD, Hamilton-Baillie Associates and VivID Ideas &#038; Solutions, we&#8217;ve recently completed The Biggar Agenda: a community strategy for the next ten years. This is the third in a series of town strategies that we have prepared for the award-winning South Lanarkshire Rural Partnership&#8216;s Market Towns Initiative, the earlier towns being [...]]]></description>
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