My piece in The Herald on the potential of town centre living to deliver low carbon affordable homes and the role of land reform in enabling this heraldscotland.com/opinion/242276…
Scottish Land Commission Improvement Service Architecture and Design Scotland Scottish Futures Trust Scotland's Towns

Join us on 17 April on LinkedIn Live for our upcoming Place Conversations on #TownCentreLiving . Inspired by the themes emerging from the Town Centre Living and Investment Roadshow, we are now looking to explore transferrable lessons. Register today 👉 bit.ly/4aZ1lzd

Just a week left to get your team together or sign up for our very first pub quiz!

Our team had a fantastic day attending the final #TownCentreLiving and Investment roadshow in Falkirk 👏 Hear Heather Claridge (Heather Claridge), our Director of Design, talk about the final event.

Scotland's Towns Scottish Land Commission Scottish Futures Trust

Hear Heather Claridge (Heather Claridge), our Director of Design, talk about the first Town Centre Living and Investment Roadshow in Perth. We are co-delivering the roadshow collaboratively with Scotland's Towns, Scottish Futures Trust and Scottish Land Commission.

Join us in shaping the future of well-designed places in Scotland! We are seeking your views on our proposed mission for 2024-27. Have your say: bit.ly/CP223X

#designforgood #placebasedpartnerships

This is great resource by Architecture and Design Scotland and one to not only help those RTPI Scotland planners here in Scotland but be some food for thought in other nations Royal Town Planning Institute RTPI Cymru RTPI Scot Convenor

Based on Net Zero Scotland, home heating is one of the two biggest contributors to #climatechange in Scotland from individuals. Tune in to #PlaceConversations to hear our Director of Design, Heather Claridge, explore the topic of warm homes in a changing climate 👉 bit.ly/PCCW23-X

Exciting news! #AFragileCorrespondence will be presented at this year's Architecture Edge Festival in Galway! 🌱

Presented by co-curators Aoife Bláithnaid Nolan (@_ism_magazine), Mia Pinder Hussein (@slash_other), and Andy Summers. (@ArchiFringe).

Find out more below ⬇️

Today we took some of the members of our SURF Heritage & Creativity Alliance (SH&CA) to visit Whitevale Baths in Glasgow's East End. Thanks to Glasgow City Council colleagues, Glasgow Building Preservation Trust and Michaela from PEEK Possibilities for Each and Every Kid for showing us around (and for the extra tour of the area)

Great discussion with myself and Cam and the team Architecture and Design Scotland - some really interesting approaches to how we shape elements of planning RTPI Scotland Royal Town Planning Institute and lessons learned from work underway in New Zealand that supports wellbeing of people and place

Yesterday morning, Heather Claridge (Heather Claridge), Director of Design Architecture and Design Scotland, spoke on the BBC Sunday Show to discuss the value of city centres and their future transformation. Tune in to the show to hear her insight here 👉 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

The newest edition of the AoU's Here & Now journal is dedicated to the memory of Founder John Thompson, who passed away at the end of 2022.

With thanks to all who shared their stories of John's remarkable character and accomplishments.

Read online at theaou.org/articles/journ…

Delighted that the RTPI is offering 10 Future Planners bursaries of £2k funded by Scot Gov Planning, Architecture and Regeneration to students on RTPI accredited Planning Masters courses in Scotland this coming academic year. Applications open now at rtpi.org.uk/become-a-plann…

Please help us to advertise this golden opportunity to a career in town #planning by sharing this 👇

Glasgow based sound artists 📣
The Burrell Collection are commissioning new ambient audio works that seek to respond to the building…

More information on this fantastic opportunity here: burrellcollection.com/burrell-collec…

The Chair Award for Architecture, awarded by Heather Claridge Architecture and Design Scotland goes to rankinfraser landscape NarroAssociates , Irons Foulner, Morham and Brotchie and Alliance CDM for Prestonpans Civic Square Congratulations!, #scotdesign bit.ly/3pu4KUf

Congratulations Page\Park Architects for winning a GOLD AWARD in the Affordable Housing category for North Gate, sponsored by NorDan UK Ltd ! #scotdesign bit.ly/428gtW0

Congratulations to Kieran Gaffney for winning the GOLD AWARD in the Retrofit category for Greyfriars Charteris Centre; #scotdesign bit.ly/3Jkn895

Missed out on our most recent #PlaceForum ? We've pulled together key learning points that share the stories of creating #climatefriendly places with new, #zerocarbon and well adapted existing buildings playing a key role.

Learn more 👉 bit.ly/3JzEMpg