Members may recall that the IHBC held a round table event at the Scotland’s Towns Conference in November 2014, and members who are interested in town centre issues will be interested to learn of the new resources available from Scotland’s Towns Partnership in their online portal, including toolkits and case studies.
Scotland’s Towns Partnership writes:
Over the last few months the team at Scotland’s Towns Partnership have been working hard behind the scenes to create a vibrant online community space where you can connect, learn and share best practice. Significant investment has been made in a number of new and improved products and services, all of which have been based upon what you told us you wanted to see.
Please take an opportunity to explore the new towns portal where you’ll find a host of new and improved resources, supports and toolkits. Some of these are listed below:
- Visit the new Towns Library where you can access the latest knowledge, research, policy, and data sources relating to towns.
- Book on to one of our events to learn about the latest in town developments, support and innovation.
- We will be running another large annual towns conference this year as well as a couple of exciting new events and conferences over the next few months – watch this space.
- The Town Centre Toolkit will feature all the best in sustainable streetscapes, design and planning guidance.
- Later in April we will be hosting the Understanding Scottish Places toolkit – a new, unique and dynamic typology resource which shows for the first time how every town in Scotland with a population of 1,000 or more is interacting with its surrounding settlements and performing against a range of economic and inter/dependency relationships. To come along to the launch in Musselburgh on 29th April, please contact Georgina Bowyer mailto:georgina@carnegieuk.org
- The Towns Forum will help you influence policy, share and seek advice and stimulate debate around towns.
- We are working with national media, sponsors and partners to develop a number of exciting competitions and features on towns; all designed to keep our towns high up in the political and media focus.
This list is not exhaustive and we welcome you to explore the Towns Portal yourself. If you feel you can add to the website in any way, please contact Rebecca Mather rebecca@scotlandstowns.org
