Features & Reports

The Scottish Parliament\'s White Paper Modernising the Planning System makes for interesting reading, promising the reform of planning. Planners, developers and architects will be accountable and the process transparent, with the public involved in decision making and...

The first Scottish Design Show took place at the Tramway on 6 and 7 October. It provided a unique opportunity to bring together the public and private sector for a frank and open debate about planning, the future and design quality.

Professor Stuart Gulliver opened the...

In Scotland, where there is land aplenty to build on and forests are increasing in size, only Friends of the Earth and the National Trust suggest that the manufacture of houses means concreting over Snowdonia.

Still, in the real world the problem is not that the...

Jim MacKinnon, the Scottish Executive’s chief planner, is developing a radical set of reforms to the Scottish planning system which is intended to deregulate the laws affecting some developments while strengthening controls over developments seen as ‘nationally...

The new Welsh Assembly Building by Richard Rogers Partnership moves, exhaustingly for all involved, towards practical completion, thus assuring six months to resolve teething troubles before His/Her Majesty performs the obligatory opening ceremony in March 2006 and reminding...