Heads of Planning Scotland Feedback on Successful Place Leadership workshop Diarmaid Lawlor Head of Urbanism

collaboration/ impact

“Successful place leadership is about compelling narratives” place and time from yesterday …..planning for our children’s children Alignment Vocabulary Replicability Engagement & dialogue

What more can we achieve from £100m…. …to address Collaborative public services Economic growth ….for the greater good.

today

council assets

“Is Academy Street a red herring?”

Focus: Whole area experience and choices. Not just Academy street Purpose ‘Cultural space to spend time’ A place for experiment A connecting place; ‘intuitive’ Scope Overlapping functions [use] Integration [modes] Place to be [experience] Networks [choices]

Focus: Whole area experience and choices. Not just Academy street Purpose ‘Cultural space to spend time’ A place for experiment A connecting place; ‘intuitive’ Scope Overlapping functions [use] Integration [modes] Place to be [experience] Networks [choices]

Focus: Whole area experience and choices. Not just Academy street Purpose ‘Cultural space to spend time’ A place for experiment A connecting place; ‘intuitive’ Scope Overlapping functions [use] Integration [modes] Place to be [experience] Networks [choices]

Strategic traffic management Movement Public realm Re-balancing the city and making more of major investment [eg UHI] as a whole place Arrival River Destinations Asset management Urban form & use Experiment by placemaking Inverness story: Quality place, health and wellbeing, nature

from yesterday……

1. Arrival

2. Integration

3. Union Street

4. River destination

5. Academy St as shared cultural space

6. Cultural and learning hub

7. Fine grain linkages

8. Maximising the river opportunity

9. Integrating planned education and cultural investment

10. Planning for the future of the culture and innovation quarter

AlignmentReplicability Engagement Vocabulary we said…. from yesterday

“It always seems impossible until it’s done” Start anywhereProvoke possibilities Expect collaboration Take leadership