from skara brae to sustainable communities perth june 2010
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Jim Mackinnon
From Skara Brae to Sustainable Communities
“planning – for the layman a submerged, highly technical world surfacing occasionally in lengthy often incomprehensible hearings seen as a triumph not for clarity but the legal profession.”
“To focus Government and public services on creating a more successful country, with opportunities for all of Scotland to flourish, through increasing sustainable economic growth.”
“The ultimate test of an effective planning system is the maintenance and creation of places where
people want to be. We need to rise to that
challenge.”
“I ask every Scot to pause and reflect not on the kind of country we are –but on the kind of
country we could be – we should be.”
David I (1124-1153)–Scotland‘s First National Planner
Introduced the feudal systemEstablished law andorderReorganised the churchPromoted local andforeign trade
All this stuff about planning and compensation and betterment. Broad vistas and all that. But give to me the eighteenth century alley, where foot-pads lurk, and the harlot plies her trade, and none of this new-fangled planning doctrine
Where are the conservation
areas of tomorrow?...
Sam Galbraith Planning Minister November 2000
Plans don’t accomplish
anything. Theories of
management don’t much
matter. Endeavours succeed
or fail because of the people
involved. Only by attracting
the best people will you
accomplish great deeds.
SSCI Charrette Series
open space band
Employment Band
Housing band
Open space band
The Light Imprint PlanThe Peel Plan
Ladyfield Masterplan
The Quay Connection PlanThe Pinwheel Plan
Ladyfield Masterplan
Lochgelly
Lochgelly
Grandhome Masterplan
Terrace House (wide)8 meter plots24 dwellings/hectare
Mixed Block30 dwellings/hectare
Villas (wide)14 meter plots14 dwellings/hectare
From Skara Brae to Sustainable Communities