{"id":8022,"date":"2014-07-11T18:22:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T17:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=8022"},"modified":"2014-07-13T17:53:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T16:53:47","slug":"dundee-waterfront-voted-rtpis-best-place-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8022","title":{"rendered":"Dundee Waterfront voted RTPI&#8217;s &#8216;best place&#8217; in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Members who attended the recent IHBC\u2019s Edinburgh Annual School and heard the presentation by Mike Galloway on his work in Dundee and the \u2018Art of conservation at a Masterplanning level\u2019, will be especially interested to learn that the prestigious title of \u2018Scotland\u2019s Best Place\u2019 has been awarded by the RTPI to Dundee waterfront.<\/span><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The runner up was Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park (West Dunbartonshire, Stirling, Argyll and Bute, Loch Lomond and Trossach National Park), with third place being the West Highland Way (East Dunbartonshire, Argyll and Bute, Stirling, Highland, Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The RTPI writes<\/span>:<br \/>\nAs part of our 2014 Centenary celebrations people and organisations across Scotland were asked to vote for the best places that have been built, enhanced or protected by planners and the planning system within Scotland since 1914.\u00a0 After a public vote &#8211; where 3724 votes were cast &#8211; Dundee Waterfront was announced as the winner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\/page109\/schools\/edinburgh_pres\/edinburgh_pres.html\" target=\"_blank\">See online resources for the 2014 School\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IHBC members will be able to enjoy diverse perspectives on the School programme in the September edition of the IHBC member journal <em>Context<\/em>.\u00a0 Issues of <em>Context<\/em> are made available online some six months after publication (Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\/context_rw\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>), but you can access hardcopy and all the benefits of IHBC membership by joining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\/join\/apply\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View the digital reminder of the day school and presentations <a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/CrenellatedArts\/ihbc-summer-school-day-school-6-june\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View details of the winner, runner up and other nominations on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/the-rtpi-near-you\/rtpi-scotland\/rtpi-centenary-2014\/scotlands-best-places\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTPI<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members who attended the recent IHBC\u2019s Edinburgh Annual School and heard the presentation by Mike Galloway on his work in Dundee and the \u2018Art of conservation at a Masterplanning level\u2019, will be especially interested to learn that the prestigious title &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8022\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8022","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\/8022","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8058,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions\/8058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}