We’ve built some impressive policy sandcastles in recent years, defiantly hoping that the tide would relent. Then, we’ve watched silently as the waves continued to roll in….. You’d need to look back as far as 2001 to find the first of the Scottish Government’s urban design statements ‘Designing Places’. This was our first step towards […]

Empty Thoughts on a Half Filled Glass
I took the train to Perth for a meeting today. It was a slow but pleasant journey, ending at a grand station. This must once have been a bustling place, linking surrounding towns on lines which are now cycleways, or sparsely serviced provincial routes. I walked up past the City Hall, where the outsized cherubs […]

