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Designing Places Student Competition 2018
21st March 2018
Date: 17th March 2018 Location: The Lighthouse, Glasgow This year’s Designing Places Competition took place on St Patrick’s Day, at The Lighthouse, in Glasgow. The day was led by the Scottish Government through Susie Stirling (Head of Placemaking and Housing) and Kristen Anderson (Senior Planner) supported by Ian Alexander (JM Architects), Rowena Statt (Anderson Bell…
Compulsory Purchase Order – National Assembly
12th January 2018
When: 12 December 2017, 09:00 – 16:00 Where: Sheraton Hotel, Edinburgh Agenda 09:15 – Registration and Coffee 10:00 – Assembly Opens – Welcome – John McNairney, Scottish Government Chief Planner 10:05 – Key Note Address – Kevin Stewart, Minister for Local Government & Housing 10:25 – Questions and Answer Session – Kevin Stewart, Minister for Local Government…
eDevelopment.scot – Survey for Users Analysis Report
29th November 2017
We conducted a survey aimed at the users of our service to obtain feedback on what improvements could be made to the eDevelopment service, and its ePlanning and eBuildingStandards portals. The survey ran over a 3 week period from the 16th October to the 6th November, with 135 users responding to a short series of…
SAQP2017 Award Winners
9th November 2017
Of the 22 shortlisted entries to the Scottish Awards for Quality in Planning 2017 16 won awards last night in the four categories of Partnership, Place, Plans and Process. You can view each award winner’s video in this post. Overall Winner Orkney Islands Council – ‘Team Stromness’ – Urban Regeneration Project https://vimeo.com/241421896/527beac5a6 Partnership Category East Ayrshire Council…
Streamlining Planning Obligations Improvement Project – October 2017
31st October 2017
Workshops update The fourth and final initial workshop has now been held with East Dunbartonshire Council. The initial sessions earlier on in the year acted as a brief introduction to improvement tools to get authorities started in developing improvements. Authorities considered their draft aims, looked at the planning obligations process and identified issues within and…
eDevelopment.scot – Survey for Users
24th October 2017
The eDevelopment Operations team are looking to make improvements to eDevelopment.scot which includes ePlanning.scot and eBuildingStandards.scot and are looking for your feedback on what improvements you’d like to see. We have collated a number of ideas of where improvements could be made to the portals based on feedback we’ve received on the support desk and…
Streamlining Planning Obligations Improvement Project – July 2017
14th July 2017
Initial workshops Initial workshops were held in April / May with Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeenshire Councils. These initial sessions looked at mapping internal s75 processes, clarifying aims and identifying potential change ideas. Participating authorities are now moving on to testing their change ideas at the local level. We are also shortly commencing work with a…
First release of a Place Standard ‘App’
12th July 2017
The Place Standard App An app for the Place Standard is now available to download for free for Android* or Apple* smartphones or tablets. This is an important milestone in the development of the Place Standard tool. It is the result of design work by PAS, Scottish Government and Luma 3di Ltd. The App should…
SEA and LOIP training day – 7th July 2017
11th July 2017
The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and preparation Local Outcome Improvement Plans (LOIP) training day was held at Victoria Quay, Edinburgh on Friday 7th July 2017. Speakers William Carlin – Scottish Government Iain Murray – Scottish Government Fiona Rice – Scottish Natural Heritage Viv Gray – Scottish Natural Heritage Susan Dean – Scottish Environmental Protection Agency…
Scottish Greenspace Map – Launch of new features and open dataset
10th July 2017
Scottish Greenspace Map In 2011 the Scottish Greenspace Map (SGM) was released by greenspace scotland and the Scottish Government as the first of its kind anywhere in the world. Based on its success, the Scottish greenspace mapping approach has now been rolled out to England and Wales. The Scotland map has also been updated and…