Culture change, already a big issue for Scottish planning, is getting even bigger. The government has clearly signalled the paramount of economic development as the over-riding objective of the ...

It's not every day that mere planners get the opportunity to work with graphic designers on an exciting project that runs to the very heart of Glasgow - re-branding Tennents Wellpark Brewery on D...

The current decline in planning applications witnessed in England and Wales as a result of the credit crunch - down by around 40% in Liverpool on last year, for example - is now starting to bite ...

La maison du fada: that's the local name for Le Corbusier's famous - or infamous - unité d'habitation, or cité radieuse, in Marseille's suburbs. Much has been written about this remarkable creatio...

The Scottish Government has just published its new statement on how planners should help meet the government's target of 35,000 new homes per year by the middle of the next decade - the revised S...

For years there has been a divergence of thinking amongst built environment professions and the public about how new residential developments should look: suburban style 1970s and 1980s cul-de-sa...