Application form
Please make sure you have read all the notes carefully before you start to fill in the application form. This application form can either be completed by hand or electronically - it is available on the Planning homepage at www.scotland.gov.uk/planning. Please complete all five sections. The deadline for submitting applications is 29 August 2007. An acknowledgement letter will be sent to the person who has completed this form.
1 Please provide a name and contact details of the lead organisation responsible for this work.
Name | Tim Mitchell |
Job title | Principal Development Officer |
Organisation | Glasgow City Council ( GCC) |
Address | Development & Regeneration Services, 229 George Street, |
Telephone | 0141 287 8613 |
Fax | 0141 287 8546 |
Email | tim.mitchell@drs.glasgow.gov.uk |
2 If this is a joint application, please list the other partners who had a key role. You should also inform your partners that you are nominating the project for an award.
1 Dr Russell Jones, Glasgow Centre for Population Health ( GCPH) | 2 "Active Communities Group" - East Glasgow & Calton Community Planninq Partnership |
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3 Tick one nomination category
Title of entry | East End Local Development Strategy ( EELDS) - Consultative Draft |
Please complete the form on the following pages by providing a brief summary of the piece of work you have entered. You must also conclude with a key reason as to why you think this work merits an Award. Only the two A4 pages supplied here can be used and your text must fit within the boxes. The font size should be no less than 12pt.
The judging criteria are set out below. Please tick only the key criteria relevant to your entry:
You must describe, in your written submission, how the criteria which you have ticked relate to your project.
Description of project
This document will provide a spatial development framework for a large portion of the City's East End for the next 25 years. This will also form the supplementary planning and design guidance for Glasgow's part of the Clyde Gateway Project. The project started with an early draft being the subject of a Health Impact Assessment ( HIA), which formed the foundations for an innovative consultation programme. |
Describe the background to the project
The EELDS - prepared as part of the work programme for the City Plan. To provide supplementary planning guidance for the Clyde Gateway Regeneration Initiative ( CGRI) - identified as a national priority by the Scottish Executive (National Planning Framework). Build on the existing community and stakeholder network through a scrapbook/notebook approach which encouraged people to think about places and spaces. Work with various capital projects i.e. East End Regeneration Route ( EERR)/National Indoor Sports Arena ( NISA) to inform design aspects of large area regeneration. Poor health of existing population led us to incorporate HIA assessment of the EELDS. |
What are the aims and objectives of the project?
- Set out a vision to encourage and promote public and private investment to re-invent an inner city district ravaged by industrial decline, contamination, poverty and poor health.
- Provide the council with a modern, up to date spatial planning framework for the Clyde Gateway Regeneration Initiative and the Potential Commonwealth Games Village 2014.
- To create a planning document of relevance to local people.
- To secure a new approach to sustainable development.
- To integrate health considerations into spatial planning.
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Over what timescale has the project been developed?
- Start June 2006
- HIA training event Nov/Dec 2006 (Facilitated by Erica Ison, World Health Organisation)
- Publish Consultative Draft Feb 2007
- Consultation Programme Feb - May 2007.
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Explain the process and action taken
Started with a 2 day HIA desktop appraisal of the draft EELDS which included representatives from various backgrounds including local community; health; economic; housing; transport; etc. This acted as a catalyst for innovative consultation techniques created by the EELDS project team including scrapbook/notebook project and a series of community events. The Lighthouse is now involved to further build community capacity. Statutory stakeholders such as Greenspace Scotland have recognised the significance of the EELDS and its cutting edge approach. The Active Communities group became the enablers for the community consultation, by incorporating health considerations into place change it gave them a language they were both confident and comfortable using. |
Explain the role of the key partners
The Glasgow Centre for Population Health ( GCPH) sponsored and organised the HIA training and has disseminated the work through publications and presentations; have contributed to and assisted with building community capacity; and have had abstracts accepted for presentation at international conferences. EELDS Project team worked closely with the CPP Community Engagement Staff in liaison/advice/resources to construct the Consultation Programme and enabling the Activate Communities Group to lead local community consultation events. This has been recognised as a possible model for future consultation programme (Scottish Executive website PAN 81 - Case Study). |
What results were achieved?
As well as those outlined in the description of the project the team also achieved - HIA training; the HIA itself; a popular consultation document; a successful consultation programme; a model for future consultation programmes; Publication of HIA; Spatial Planners Model of Healthy Sustainable Neighbourhoods; and Conference Papers in Rennes, possibly Dublin and Falkirk (Airth Castle). Local Elected Members support the EELDS and recognise that the information gathered in from the scrapbooks can be used to further enable change within their local areas. |
In summary, why does this piece of work merit an Award?
Through good team management we used the HIA to include health considerations in spatial planning and as a way to reach people who would not normally respond to an LDS. This approach provided a method of open and meaningful communications between planners and the local community. Also our innovative community-led consultation method has been recognised as a progressive model of engaging with people of all ages. The EELDS introduces the imaginative concept of development Hubs and regeneration zones. Offers cutting-edge solutions to difficult issues, and tests a healthy sustainable neighbourhood design guide. The document has been recognised by statutory stakeholders and encouraged to become a potential example of best practice by organisations such as Health Scotland, Greenspace Scotland, etc. |
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