I’ve been co-facilitating a series of workshops in Aberdeen with Seamus Lalor Associates over the last year or so, for ACSEF in Aberdeen city and shire – as I explained in this earlier post. The workshops are all about building trust and understanding between different players in the planning system – developers, local authority officers, […]
Archive | February, 2011
delivering better places | the role of leadership
This excellent report deserves to be widely read. Launched by Alex Neil MSP, Minister for Housing and Communities, at the end of January, Delivering Better Places in Scotland: a guide to learning from broader experience was prepared by the University of Glasgow’s Department of Urban Studies for the Scottish Centre for Regeneration in the Scottish […]
the leadership role of planning
At the Delivering Better Places in Scotland launch last week (more of which in another post soon), the need for more leadership in planning was a strong theme – possibly the dominant theme. This isn’t about training more leaders of planners. It’s about the need for planning to take a more leading role in government, […]