Library
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Planning Development Programme
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Checklist for reviewing your own facilitation skills. This forms part of the materials from the Facilitation Skills Training workshop held in January 2012.
An overview of Transactional Analysis, a method of understanding how people interact. This overview forms part of the materials from the Facilitation Skills Training workshop held in January 2012.
Materials from the Facilitation Skills Training workshop held in January 2012.
A conference aimed at planning authority and key agency staff involved in development planning considered how climate change issues can be effectively addressed in the next generation of development plans in Scotland. This summary provides an outline of the main points highlighted by speakers and in the workshops.
Summary of the workshop for planning authorities held in March 2012. The purpose of the event was to reiterate and support the important leadership role of the public sector to set out a vision and define principles that guide and brief a masterplanning process.
Presentation by Anna Beswick, Adaptation Scotland Public Sector Officer. Part of the resource pack on 'addressing climate change in development plans'.
Presentation by Etive Currie, Senior Planner, Glasgow City Council. Part of the resource pack on 'Addressing climate change in development plans'.
Part of the resource pack on 'Addressing climate change in development plans'.
Presentation by Simon Bonsall, Scottish Government. Part of the resource pack on 'Addressing climate change in development plans'.
Presentation by Rebecca Bell, Sustainability Officer at Clackmannanshire Council. Part of the resource pack on 'Addressing climate change in development plans'.
Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme - presentation by Jody Flek, Scottish Government
23/03/2012
Part of the resource pack on 'Addressing climate change in development plans'.
Part of the resource pack on 'Addressing climate change in development plans'.
Booking form for the course 'The use of lime mortar' run by the Scottish Traditional Skills Centre.
A summary of the learning and development opportunities for leaders, elected members and planners taking place in 2012.
Audio interview with Graeme Reay of Reay Dunlop Ltd. The interview relates to his presentation at the Development Economics Workshop on 28 October 2011 which set out the basic principles of development appraisal using two key methods - comparative valuation and residual valuation - and highlighted the benefits and drawbacks of both methods.
