Wellbeing Economy Alliance Scotland
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Wellbeing Economy Alliance Scotland is the Scottish hub of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. It aims to want to see Scotland's economy reprogrammed so it puts people and planet first.
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Understanding Scottish Places
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Understanding Scottish Places is an online tool that helps you to better understand and compare the places where you work and live. Just type the name of any town in Scotland into the search bar to get started.
Read MoreScotland's Regeneration Forum (SURF)
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SURF provides a network, shared learning, events and online resources for community regeneration in Scotland. Their website contains useful information on Covid-19, the cost of living, 20-minute neighbourhoods, community wealth building and more.
Read MoreEcovillage Design Cards
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These cards are a flexible and creative way to explore whole systems regeneration. They help to plan how to make communities more sustainable by seeing the interconnectedness between all areas of regeneration.
Read MoreOur Place
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Our Place is a new site devoted to promoting the benefits of place and place-based working. It contains information, tools and resources to help support the development of places and services that improve our health, our prosperity, our quality of life and protect our environment.
Read MoreCommunity Wealth Building
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Community wealth building is a new people-centred approach to local economic development, which redirects wealth back into the local economy, and places control and benefits into the hands of local people. UK based organisation CLES provides a useful introduction.
Read More20-minute neighbourhoods
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If you lived in a 20-minute neighbourhood you would be able meet all your day-to-day needs without having to travel more than 20 minutes by foot, bike or public transport. The Scottish Government has stated it will apply this concept to Scotland’s cities, towns, and this can be seen as part of an increasing focus on place, sustainability and tackling inequality.
Read MorePlace-based approaches
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‘Place-based approaches’ bring local people and organisations together to work in partnership to agree what works and what could be improved as well as putting a plan in place for how to do this. It’s a term that has become more common in recent years and the Scottish Government is currently interested in place-based approaches, so it may be useful for community groups to get a sense of what it’s all about.
Read MoreLocal Place Plans
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The Planning (Scotland) Act was passed in July 2019 and makes changes to how land is developed and used. The Act sets out a new way for communities to feed into the planning system called local place plans (LPPs). LPPs will be prepared by communities and will highlight local priorities for development.
Read MoreCommunity Map Scotland
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Community Map Scotland is a software project to help your community build a Local Place Plan.
Read MoreThe Place Standard
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The Place Standard is a tool that can help you to think about the physical elements of a place (e.g. its buildings, spaces, and transport links) as well as the social aspects (e.g. whether people feel they have a say in decision making). The tool provides prompts for discussions, allowing you to consider all the elements of place, inlcuding health and wellbeing and climate change, in a methodical way.
Read MoreCommunity-led Action Planning Toolkit
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Community action plans are a way for communities to take a lead role in changing and improving their local area by setting out what will be done, who will do it and how it will be carried out. The Community-led Action Planning toolkit takes you through the process.
Read MorePlaceBuilder
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PlaceBuilder is a digital community engagement and consultation platform for planning projects. It’s aimed at local authorities and other planning partners who have to pay to use it, but it may be something your group comes across if you’re engaged with local planning.
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