{"id":28763,"date":"2021-01-06T15:20:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T15:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=28763"},"modified":"2021-01-06T15:20:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T15:20:07","slug":"action-plan-from-the-scottish-civic-trust-scottish-parliament-election-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=28763","title":{"rendered":"Action Plan from the Scottish Civic Trust: Scottish Parliament Election 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Scottish_CT_060121.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28764\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Scottish_CT_060121.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a>Ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections, Scotland\u2019s national amenity and civic body, the Scottish Civic Trust, has published an action plan that outlines five priorities for the new Scottish Government.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8230;Scottish Government must prioritise&#8230;planning that genuinely benefits&#8230;.safe-guarding [built heritage]&#8230;.well-being and climate change&#8230;.education&#8230;.a place for everyone&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>The Scottish Civic Trust writes:<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Civic Trust represents Scotland\u2019s civic sector and strives to ensure our amenity groups are active, empowered, and educated to make a difference in their locality. Our mission is to celebrate Scotland\u2019s built environment, take action for its improvement and empower its communities.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of each Scottish Parliament election, we release our actions points for the incoming government.\u00a0The Scottish Civic Trust believes that the new Scottish Government must prioritise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Planning that genuinely benefits all communities<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ensure that voices from across our communities can influence planning decisions by promoting the Place Principle, by embedding the Place Standard, by providing support and time to allow meaningful participation, and by upgrading Scotland\u2019s online planning portal to facilitate use by non-specialists.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Safe-guarding Scotland\u2019s built heritage<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Achieve VAT parity for maintenance, repair and adaptation of existing buildings and settings, and incentivise investment in the preservation, restoration and re-use, especially of nationally important buildings at risk.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Homes and environments for well-being and climate change resilience<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enable owners and occupiers of Scotland\u2019s traditional buildings to carry out timely maintenance and to make affordable adaptations by supporting appropriate legislation such as law reform on Tenement Maintenance and by providing targeted advice and investment.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Education that builds civic pride<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Inspire life-long involvement in shaping and protecting our environments and built heritage by strengthening the focus on civic participation in the Curriculum for Excellence (including the Place Standard for Scotland) and also in lifelong learning, making it more relevant to people\u2019s lives and spaces.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>A place for everyone<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Support more and greater diversity in the way our Scottish heritage is created and shared and ensure that there is a meaningful and accessible platform for everyone to engage, for example by enabling Historic Environment Scotland to support more digital access projects for people either culturally or physically unable to engage with Scotland\u2019s environments and built heritage assets&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishcivictrust.org.uk\/action-plan-scottish-parliament-election-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections, Scotland\u2019s national amenity and civic body, the Scottish Civic Trust, has published an action plan that outlines five priorities for the new Scottish Government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28765,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28763\/revisions\/28765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}