One of the highlights of this week was getting over to Glasgow to catch up with Sarah Shaw and handing over an engraved quaich to celebrate Glasgow City Council's win in the #ScottishPlanningAwards for their work on #PlaySufficiency. Well done to the team that worked on this Gillian Dick Etive Currie Heather Drake Glasgow City Council. It's a really inspirational piece of work, making use of in-house skills and resources, co-creating with young people and doing everything with a view to scalability and replication. We welcomed Jenny Munro back to the office this week, after her summer holidays. There's always plenty of work to be done responding to consultations and finalising the copy for the next issue of the Scottish Planner (coming soon!) Most of the content is in the folder, but there are a few final bits and pieces to review and edit. Well done to Shabnam Afshar for holding the fort and getting us 90% of the way there. (Note to self: must finish writing the editorial ...) It's been hard to keep my concentration at times, with all the fantastic Olympic action going on in Paris. My whole family are sports fans, although that might be linked to the fact that we took our children to the 2012 London Games and the 2014 Commonwealth Games! I'm a bit sad though that the Paris 1924 nostalgia has been limited to posters and medal bearer uniforms in the current games - why not resurrect some of the 1924 events? That could have given us another chance to have town planning at the Olympics. Perhaps, if Glasgow get to host the next Commonwealth Games, we can make a case for including it there? Even if we don't go back to competitive town planning, I'm wondering what type of sporting activity planning is best compared to? A relay race with team members passing the baton and working together towards a goal? A marathon or a road race, with a long distance between the start and finish? A steeplechase with the occasional hurdle? Or a team sport of some kind....? Something to think about whilst sipping a long cool drink perhaps?! Cheers 🥂
Really excellent example of using in house skills and resources. Always impressed by GCC team.
Pamela Clifford
4mo
Well done team Glasgow. Lovely picture and the quaich is impressive
Re your comparisons of planning with sporting activity Caroline, I see that the influence of Kevin P Gilday's poetry lesson has taken root! 😊 #Geddes2024
Nature -based Solutions expert. Manager Spatial Planning - Research & Development at Glasgow City Council
4moThanks Caroline Brown the team of Etive Currie Heather Drake and myself are really chuffed to have won. We'll need to get hold of the quaich for our own celebratory picture