Daily Archives: 06/05/2010

Culture and External Affairs Minister Fiona Hyslop has introduced the Historic Environment Amendment Bill (Scotland) 2010 to parliament. The Bill, published on Wednesday, will amend provisions in the existing Listed Building and Conservation Areas (Scotland) Act 1997, the Ancient Monuments … Continue reading →

IHBC Full Member, Jim MacDonald, Deputy Chief Inspector, Historic Scotland, has been appointed Chief Executive of Architecture + Design Scotland (A+DS). Mr MacDonald (44) is a  Graduate of Edinburgh University and UCL, London. He is a MPhil in Town Planning … Continue reading →

Two Scottish charities, the Scottish Campaign for National Parks (SCNP) and The Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland (APRS), have recently started a project to promote a strategy for developing a comprehensive network of National Parks across Scotland. SCNP … Continue reading →

Planningblog reports as follows: ‘Living in a country where the complaint is often that too little land is given to housing, it comes as a surprise that Ireland has massively over-zoned land for new homes.’ An investigation by the Irish … Continue reading →

The Royal Town Planning Institute has strongly criticised the news first released to the media, that the Northern Ireland Planning Service is to redeploy as many as one in three of its employees – 269 staff. RTPI says this will … Continue reading →

The editors of ‘Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture’,  Anne Massey (Kingston University) and John Turpin (Washington State University) invite contributions to the journal’s 2011 special issue ‘Living in the Past: Histories, Heritage and the Interior’. This issue will examine the theme … Continue reading →