Another stimulating Rural Housing Scotland conference last week threw up countless options for blogging. Evidence shows ’rural’ affordable housing investment is tending to end up largely in urban settlements. Are homes built in Inverness, or Ayr, or Dumfries truly rural? There was much talk of rural housing ‘enablers’. We need more and better support for […]
A Look At The State We’re In
As a planning student in the early 1980s, I found myself on an EU-funded ERASMUS exchange to Denmark’s second city, Aarhus. It was a formative time. Like many planning students, I had an idealistic desire to make places better but only a vague notion of how it might be done. Travelling round the country and […]