Workshop & Walking Tour Signups
1.30pm - 2.30pm
This is the signup page for those already booked to attend this year's Scottish Young Planners' Conference in Edinburgh on 1 May.
You have the option to sign up for either:
- Two workshops, which will run back to back each for a duration of 1 hour
- One workshop from 1.30pm
- One workshop from 2.35pm
Or
- One walking tour, which will run for a duration of 2 hours from 1.30pm
Further information about each workshop and walking tour can be found below.
Anyone who signs up for a workshop or walking tour who has not already booked a ticket for the main Conference event will have their signup cancelled.
Workshops
Each workshop is for a duration of 1 hour. Please signup for two workshops - one at 1.30pm and one at 2.35pm
Do not sign up to a workshop if you have already signed up to a walking tour
1. Design Tools for People-centred, Climate Conscious Placemaking
Heather Claridge and Steve Malone, Architecture & Design Scotland
1. Design Tools for People-centred, Climate Conscious Placemaking
Heather Claridge and Steve Malone, Architecture & Design Scotland
Learn practical design tools for imaginative and inclusive placemaking. This hands-on workshop will introduce you to techniques like personas, future-focused storytelling, and the value of design-thinking in responding to key trends.
In the session you will work in groups to:
- Use personas to consider inclusive, climate conscious placemaking.
- Practice future-focused planning/design through storytelling.
- Reflect on design's impact on communities and places.
2. Mastering Drawing Places - Getting Started!
Susie Stirling (Scottish Government) and Rowena Statt (Anderson bell Christie)
2. Mastering Drawing Places - Getting Started!
Susie Stirling (Scottish Government) and Rowena Statt (Anderson bell Christie)
This is a 1 hour step-by-step workshop that will take delegates who are fearful of even picking up a pen to more comfortably observing and drawing places. This workshop will combine indoor and outdoor drawing (weather permitting), with Susie and Rowena providing delegates with the basics of drawing with a sketchbook. All equipment will be provided on the day and no prior skills are required. Why not give it a go and see the environment in a different way!
3. Freedom of Information Workshop - Practical Tips for Information Requests
Lynsey Reid and Ashley McCann (Shepherd and Wedderburn) & Rhoda Banfro (Highland Council)
3. Freedom of Information Workshop - Practical Tips for Information Requests
Lynsey Reid and Ashley McCann (Shepherd and Wedderburn) & Rhoda Banfro (Highland Council)
Lynsey Reid and Ashley McCann, both Senior Associates in Shepherd and Wedderburn’s Planning and Environment team, will provide a high-level overview of the Freedom of Information / Environmental Information request process, and outline their top tips for using FOI/EI requests effectively to obtain information from planning authorities. Attendees will then have the opportunity to look at real examples of appeals to the Scottish Information Commissioner where the local authority has withheld information, and to guess whether the local authority was required to reveal all!
Lynsey and Ashley will be joined by Rhoda Banfro, a solicitor at from Highland Council, who will provide attendees with a local authority perspective on FOI/EI requests.
Walking Tours
Each Walking Tour will last a duration of 2 hours. Please only sign up for one walking tour.
Do not sign up for a walking tour if you have already signed up for a workshop
1. In the Footsteps of Sir Patrick Geddes: an Edinburgh transect walk
Angus Dodds, Contour Town Planning
1. In the Footsteps of Sir Patrick Geddes: an Edinburgh transect walk
Angus Dodds, Contour Town Planning
Description:
Sir Patrick Geddes was fond of conceptualising living space in a regional sense, often illustrating a ‘valley section’ or a ‘transect’ to show how the city necessarily linked to its rural hinterland. This looped walking tour from the New Town to the Old Town and back again, should reveal what must be (in planning terms) one of the most fascinating transects of urban development anywhere in the UK. One which variously incorporates: 18th Century notions of the picturesque; 19th and 20th Century ideas around urban surgery; and, 21st Century approaches to city centre renewal. All of this (rather fortuitously) begins and ends at the door of the Royal College of Physicians.
The Route:
Angus will take delegates from the conference venue, up and down Hanover Street, up the mound, down the High Street, into the Scotsman Hotel en route for Waverley Station, then round West Register Street to St Andrews Square, then north again to Queen Street and back to conference venue.
Importance Information:
Delegates are responsible for their own safety and wellbeing while on the walking tour and must be able to walk independently for the walking tour's duration of 2 hours.
The walking tour will take place regardless of the weather. Please come prepared for all weather conditions
2. Edinburgh City Walking Tour
Elaine Campbell, City of Edinburgh Council
2. Edinburgh City Walking Tour
Elaine Campbell, City of Edinburgh Council
Description:
Edinburgh continues to be a successful and growing city. With that we need homes, jobs and the renewal of places, infrastructure and services to make sure new and existing neighbourhoods have the right developments in the right places. We need to do this in a way which reflects the history, heritage and character of the city and minimises impact on the natural setting of the city. This walking tour will allow delegates to explore the heart of the World Heritage City and discover the modern interventions helping to sustain the historic fabric.
The Route:
The walking tour will leave from the Royal College of Physicians (this year’s conference venue) to Charlotte Square and then to the St James Quarter with a pause along Rose Street and St Andrews Square before returning to the conference venue.
Importance Information:
Delegates are responsible for their own safety and wellbeing while on the walking tour and must be able to walk independently for the walking tour's duration of 2 hours.
The walking tour will take place regardless of the weather. Please come prepared for all weather conditions
