Inverness case study: Visioning at the scale of a small city

Apologies but I have only just come across this now;

Scottish Government Case Study

Organisation        Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS)

Date Completed July 2010

Extract:

...A+DS and Highland Council planners had concluded that the lack of a spatial plan for the city was making it very difficult to ensure that the development of what was then one of Europe’s fastest growing cities was producing the right benefits for the whole city.  

Although a City Vision for Inverness had been prepared for Inverness’ bid for city status in 2003, this was primarily a marketing document, contained no spatial planning components and had no ability to inform future development. The planning department recognised that they needed additional input to make the new Local Development Plan for Inverness the kind of visionary document to which they aspired and to link the themes of the Highland Council Single Outcome Agreement in Inverness to the principles of spatial planning and design for the city.


A staged city visioning exercise brought together a City Vision Team and various different interest and user groups to consider a place based approach to 
policy formulation.    

The process led to the development of a clear diagram describing the spatial structure of the city, and the proposal to draft more detailed spatial frameworks for a number of priority areas. 

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