The Scottish Government has just announced £15 million to help create a series of 'sustainable travel demonstration communities' across the country. Why not follow the example of Bogotá in Colombi...

I've just finished a small job for Fife Council Development Services as part of a team with TPS Planning, summarising and analysing the consultation responses to the initial 'Issues and Options' ...

It's good to see that community engagement in planning is making the national press - Scotland's Sunday Herald is now getting in on the act too, with an article about the fashionably named Sustai...

I've just been reminded that there is no substitute for direct learning. After years of informally educating myself about Hans Monderman's ideas about safer traffic management, and visiting Briti...

Leading a team with colleagues from Cass Associates, we've recently completed two series of community workshops for Wrexham County Borough Council in Wales. The aim of the workshops was to feed c...

Community engagement is about a whole range of ways of communicating. On the one side, local communities are hugely diverse - in any one area affected by a development proposal or a new strategy,...