Planning and Architecture

  • Scottish Awards for Quality in Planning 2018

    19th July 2018 by

    The Scottish Awards for Quality in Planning are one of the Government’s most prestigious awards. They celebrate achievements in planning, right from the detail of processing through to the bigger picture of creating places which will become the legacy of our professionalism. With 2018 being the Year of Young People, we introduced a fifth category…

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  • Making Places – Engaging Children and Young People Event – 30th March 2017

    11th April 2017 by

    When: 30th March 2017, 13:00 – 18:00 Where: Gallery 2, The Lighthouse, Glasgow Background The Scottish Government’s Places, People and Planning consultation includes a range of proposals which support further engagement with children and young people in the planning process. We also want to encourage planning authorities to work with organisations to develop and expand the use of…

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  • Launch of 2016 Festival of Architecture with ‘Hinterland’

    22nd March 2016 by

    The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) Festival of Architecture, which is a centrepiece of the 2016 Year of innovation, Architecture and Design, was launched on Friday 18 March with Hinterland, a thought-provoking and beautifully considered display of light and sound at St Peter’s Seminary, Cardross. Within the remaining shell of the world-renowned modern…

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  • Supplementary Guidance on Wind Energy – good example guidance.

    11th January 2016 by

    The Scottish Government were recently issued with a Notice of Intention to Adopt Supplementary Guidance on Wind Energy for South Ayrshire. We were impressed with the content and format of the document and its compliance with national policy, guidance and advice. As such we believe this Supplementary Guidance  to be a good example of how…

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  • Lessons learned from the Aussie housing challenge.

    14th December 2015 by

    Ian Gilzean is Chief Architect within Planning & Architecture Division. In December last year Ian flew out to begin a three-month secondment with Melbourne University and guest blogs to share his experience of working in Australia. In the past 18 months Planning and Architecture Division has seen a great deal of collaboration with the city…

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  • Place standard Launch

    10th December 2015 by

    The new Place Standard tool for Scotland was launched today. Designed to support communities, public, private and third sectors, to work efficiently together, the Place Standard provides a framework to assess the quality of a place. Place Standard has been tested with stakeholders and piloted in communities across Scotland in 2015 and has been developed…

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  • Drawing Places

    29th October 2015 by

    Pens were at the ready on 14th October for this year’s Drawing Places skills symposium. This was organised in advance of the Architecture and Design Scotland’s Place Challenge (Arbroath) which is being held this week to identify the issues challenging the role of town centres as sustainable places. The event was held at the Lighthouse,…

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  • Independent Review of Planning – meet the Secretariat

    28th October 2015 by

    The independent panel appointed to undertake the review of Scottish planning met for the first time on 13 October 2015. Planning and Architecture Division are providing support to the panel throughout the process, and there was much for the Secretariat to prepare in advance of the panel meeting. The Secretariat comprises myself and Suzanne Stephen,…

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  • Welcome to our new Planning and Architecture blog

    8th October 2015 by

    Feedback from our stakeholders told us that we needed more informal methods to communicate with them. We have responded to that by committing to a package of service improvements targeted at increasing our digital presence and improving communication. The creation of this blog is part of that wider package and colleagues will use it to regularly…

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