The Review aims to achieve, a quicker, more accessible and efficient planning process in order to build investor and community confidence in the system. The review will focus on 6 key issues. Development planning; Housing delivery; Planning for infrastructure; Further improvements to development management; Leadership, resourcing and skills; and Community Read more
By Kirsten Robb and Maggie Chapman The mothballing of the Lanarkshire Tata Steel plants is a disaster for communities already scarred by severe job losses in the 1980s and 1990s. Almost all commentators see closure as the inevitable conclusion of the move to mothball. It threatens to remove some of Read more
I HAVE enormous sympathy with the steel workers who have lost their employment (“Tata Steel axes 270 jobs and mothballs Scots plants”, The Herald, October 21, and Letters, October 22). But the real villain here needs to be identified; that is electricity prices, 40 per cent of the cost of Read more