Saturday column: What makes a good planning application?
PLANNING applications rarely make headlines for the right reasons.
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Your weekly Edinburgh buildings, planning, streets and neighbourhoods news, w/e August 14
In today’s edition:
Idea #14: Making the planning system work for everyone
IT’S a brave soul, indeed, who would venture to suggest that the planning system should not be about giving people ‘agency’: the opportunity to influence the outcome of a planning application.
Saturday column: Tackling Edinburgh's housing crisis
UNTIL recently, a walk down the Union canal towards Fountainbridge could hardly avoid the sight of an abandoned and derelict church located on the southern side of the canal, tucked behind the tenements of Viewforth.
Your weekly Edinburgh buildings, planning, streets and neighbourhoods news, w/e August 7
In today’s edition:
My favourite building: Tamsin Grainger and Madelvic House
TURNING off the busy West Granton Road, Madelvic House stands out from the crowd.
Saturday column: Imagine – and be transported
IMAGINE, if you will, a small, northern European city – a capital – which has a thriving economy and is sufficiently interesting to host an ever-growing tourist industry.
Your weekly Edinburgh buildings, planning, streets and neighbourhoods news, w/e July 31
In today’s edition:
Saturday column: Recruiting prospective residents for a housing development
THE trick, it seems, is to recruit enough people willing to seriously and sincerely pledge their commitment - not least with legal documentation and hard cash.
In the news, w/e July 24
In today’s edition:
Terraced houses, townhouses
TERRACED houses?
Saturday column: Lessons for neighbourhood design
TO walk the 400 metres or so that separates the relatively new housing in Muirhouse with the even newer housing just north, opposite the World of Football on Marine Drive, feels like traversing a Road to Damascus conversion.
In the news, w/e July 17
In today’s edition:
My favourite building: James Garry and St Albert the Great Chapel
MY favourite building in Edinburgh is one many people pass without quite seeing: the Chapel of St Albert the Great, tucked quietly behind the Georgian terraces of George Square, beside Middle Meadow Walk.
Saturday column: For the love of 'psychogeography'
MY friend, Isabel, and I had lost ourselves in talk as we strolled the northern boundary of Leith Links, pausing by the cricket pavilion to duck a sudden hailstorm.
Award-winning 'affordable' housing design
OVER the years, the Scottish Design Awards have showcased architecture projects, including the categories, ‘single home’, ‘multi-unit’, the more catch-all ‘residential’ and ‘affordable housing’.
In the news, w/e July 10
In today’s edition:
Award-winning multi-unit housing design
OVER the years, the Scottish Design Awards have showcased architecture projects, including the categories, ‘single home’, ‘multi-unit’ and the more catch-all ‘residential’.
Award-winning single home designs
OVER the years, the Scottish Design Awards have showcased architecture projects, including the categories, ‘single home’, ‘multi-unit’ and the more catch-all ‘residential’.
Saturday column: Measuring regeneration
THREE weeks ago, I wrote about Craigmillar - for the think tank, Enlighten (here).