Peer Mentoring- Making a Difference
This blog comes from Daya our peer mentor co-ordinator It feels rather strange in these times of self-isolation and quarantine, to be writing a blog about the benefits of people coming together and supporting...
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Join our Annual Gathering 4th February, Glasgow
In my last blog I talked of the success of our peer support network, indeed only this morning I received an email from a happy community in Skye who were delighted that a fish...
Tidings of Comfort and Joy
We trust you all have had a very good Christmas, and are full of festive cheer, ready to settle down to read our festive blog post, cunningly timed to arrive during the in-betweeny period...
A ray of hope, NPF4 and Housing
We are regularly contacted by people concerned about the impact of housing on services and our environment and just the sheer numbers of houses being put forward for allocation into development plans. It often...
A Vision for Housing or More of the Same?
With a new consultation on housing coming up this autumn the Government have launched a draft vision for housing. In this they say “we want Housing to 2040 to be a lasting legacy that...
Scotland’s planning bill: a time consuming grind, an opportunity missed, a failure of democracy
It has taken a few days to recover from the long sessions spent in Parliament listening to the debates and voting on the planning bill. Really, they do need to sort the seats out...
Its nearly all over
The Planning Bill will be debated on Tuesday 18th June to Thurs 20th June 2-4pm. After that it will become law. As you can see in our blog below we have been working hard...
People Powered Planning Conference Report
On the 11th May 2019 Planning Democracy’s People Powered Planning: Putting Communities on the Front Foot Conference was held in Glasgow’s Trades Hall. Here is a report of what happened with links to some...
Registration now closed for our People Powered Planning Conference
Thanks everyone for responding to the blog below. Registrations have now closed and the conference was very full and successful, read more about it in our report here Have you registered for our...
People Powered Planning Conference: Putting Communities on the Front Foot
Fantastic news! Planning Democracy are holding another conference. This year’s theme is People Powered Planning: Putting Communities on the Front Foot. Saturday May 11th 10-4.30pm Trade’s Hall Glasgow G1 1UH If you want to...
Where are you on your planning journey? Can you help someone else who is on theirs?
Daya Feldwick our community network officer explains our exciting new planning support and mentoring project. This project has been made possible by the People’s Postcode Trust and Players of the People’s Postcode Lottery. ...