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Porch Placemaking | Partners in Planning
May 11 2020
Uniting global placemakers to bring you #PorchPlacemaking week! Connecting communities through balconies, driveways and porches.
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National Planning Framework 4 - call for ideas: Key Agencies Group response | Partners in Planning
May 06 2020
A joint statement from the Key Agencies Group relating to the NPF 4 call for ideas.
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Historic Environment Scotland - Planning Performance Report 2018-19 - HES | Partners in Planning
Feb 18 2020
Historic Environment Scotland has published a report that summarises the contribution of HES's activities to the Scottish Planning System in 2018/19.
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Ian Findlay: Scotland's new, emerging National Transport Strategy must help tackle our climate emergency | Partners in Planning
Jul 22 2019
Paths for All's Chief Officer shares his thoughts on how transportation policy can help us reach 'Net Zero'. Scotland’s new National Transport Strategy (NTS) must be very different to the current strategy.
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New public health agency is an opportunity to shape public health in Scotland for a generation | Partners in Planning
Jul 22 2019
The introduction of a new national public health body presents an opportunity to positively influence Scotland’s health for many years to come. The third sector will be a vital factor in putting prevention at the heart of health and care in
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Exploring the Golden Thread of Design in New Housing Development (CaCHE) | Partners in Planning
Jul 11 2019
The UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) is exploring how design value is delivered at each stage in the development process. CaCHE's focus on placemaking is developing into this research on delivering design value within a market
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Improvement Service response to public health consultation | Partners in Planning
Jul 09 2019
IS response to the Scottish Government consultation on the creation of a national public health body, 'Public Health Scotland'. The IS welcomes the establishment of such a body and the aspirations of public health reform as aligning with its core
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Place, Public Health Reform and the Case for Change | Blog by Irene Beautyman | Partners in Planning
Jun 28 2019
Blog by Irene Beautyman on how a whole system approach can support the evidenced impact of spatial planning on public health priorities. The Place and Health Early Adopter seeks to create healthy places that enable health and wellbeing. Planning and
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Planning Bill ‘dangerously close’ to failure, claim independent panel members | Partners in Planning
Mar 13 2019
Members of the independent panel called upon by ministers to review Scotland’s planning system are close to withdrawing their support for the current Planning (Scotland) Bill. In a letter sent to planning minister Kevin Stewart today, Crawford
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