Scottish Renaissance Towns: by the Community for the Community
Join us June 25 in Eastwood Park Theatre, Giffnock, East Renfrewshire
The Scottish Renaissance Towns initiative offers a new way of thinking about how we create places and how we deliver them. At the heart of the renaissance of these towns is the fundamental belief in the value of local empowerment. A need is recognised to empower local communities and release their latent skills, knowledge and desire to improve their towns as places to live, invest in and visit.
All processes in planning need to focus on creating places for people. The Renaissance Towns model, by understanding people and place, and the agendas of planning reform and sustainable economic growth, provides a framework for placeplanning in Scotland.
Keynote speakers at the first annual Scottish Renaissance Towns Conference will include leading members of government, academics, urbanists and the local community. Outcomes from the conference will inform the emerging Scottish Renaissance Towns prospectus, the themes and principles of future Renaissance Towns for Scotland.
Scotland has a legacy of building cultural capital, engaging with people at local level, understanding their needs and building confidence. There is a natural fit between this approach and Renaissance Towns initiative. We need to recover Scotland’s legacy of how to make places people want to be in, places that work, and places that deliver greater choice. The Renaissance Towns initiative offers this possibility.
Join us on Thursday 25 June at Eastwood Park Theatre to learn from Neilston’s experience as the first Scottish Renaissance Town, and about the Scottish Renaissance approach to placemaking.
Schedule of day (PDF 723kb)
Please reserve your and your colleagues place at the Renaissance Towns Conference by June 12th.
Contact:
Please send your details (name, title, organisation, email, and address) to Mandeep Mooker at:
Email: business@eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk
Telephone: 0141 577 8529
Alternatively you can post a RSVP Slip to:
Post: Mandeep Mooker
East Renfrewshire Council
Economic Development and Regeneration
2 Spiersbridge Way
Spiersbridge Business Park
Thornliebank
East Renfrewshire
G46 8NG
Venue: Eastwood Park Theatre
Eastwood Park
Rouken Glen Road
Giffnock
East Renfrewshire
G46 6UG
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