A common refrain amongst the planning profession, even my more enlightened colleagues. But I believe this myth has no place in 21st century planning. Over the last five years, reforms to the sta...

I’m helping Clydebank re-built, an urban regeneration company in Clydebank, with briefs and tendering for design teams for some of their key sites along the Clyde Waterfront – an enterprise cent...

Not strictly planning, but I'm proud of these popular guidebooks that I researched, wrote and photographed for Renfrewshire Council's Planning Department over the last couple of years. The graphic ...

The Global Cities exhibition at the Tate Modern proves that the public can be engaged in thorny questions of future planning strategy. It poses really big questions about the future of cities - d...

As part of a larger team producing a town centre masterplan for Keswick, led by Willie Miller Urban Design, I had a fascinating role assessing the part that the local community could play in deli...

Here's my Foreword to Planning Aid for Scotland's Annual Review, written in my role as chairman... Scottish planning has had a busy year. We have new planning legislation which contains the promis...