February 2010

Edinburgh's Garden District has received significant press coverage since the charrette was launched. A sample of news pieces that have been published can be accessed below.

One of the key purposes of the charrette is to spark and encourage people to debate the project in an open forum, at an early stage.It was no surprise then that this debate spilled over into the press. Architect Malcolm Fraser and Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce Ron Hewitt offered differing perspectives on the wider proposal in The Scotsman, and raise a number of interesting points.

Download Malcolm Fraser's article here >
Download Ron Hewitt's article here >

28 October 2010

Edinburgh's Garden District Charrette publically launched on Tuesday evening at Heriot Watt University. We are currently running a series of workshops at Murrayfield Stadium which will run until Friday (29 October). A progress presentation, showing the most recent outcomes of the week's workshop discussions, will take place on Saturday (30 October) at 1pm; the closing presentation will take place on Wednesday 3 November - view timetable.

The project has received some press coverage since the Charrette was launched. Please see below a sample of articles/headlines which have been published:

BBC Scotland
stv
Deadline Scotland
Scotsman
Evening Times
Press & Journal

Finally, if you cannot attend but want to be kept up-to-date on Edinburgh's Garden District Charrette please visit our blog page which details the range of issues which have been discussed.

11 October 2010

From 25 October - 3 November, we will be conducting the Edinburgh Garden District Charrette - an intense, concentrated design workshop through which interested members of the community can join forces with the architects and planners of Murray Estates and Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company to create a masterplan for the site.

We are keen that local residents play a central part in the process and would be delighted to hear your thoughts - why don't you come along?

During the week we will be running a series of workshops to deal with specific areas of interest:-

• A Garden District;
• A Connected District;
• A Sports District;
• A City District;
• & A Working District.

View the charrette page to access the charrette schedule and for further details.
We look forward to welcoming as many of you as possible.

September 2010

The Scottish Government recommends the Charrette process as best practice in community consultation. See the article published in Planning magazine, September 2010 - available here.

24 June 2010

Edinburgh's Garden District launched yesterday to great acclaim. We've had some fantastic media coverage and we look forward to starting our extensive period of public consultation. Read some of our press coverage here.

BBC Scotland
The Daily Record
The Herald
The Scotsman
Edinburgh Evening News
STV news

23 June 2010

Edinburgh's Garden District was today launched to the great excitement of all who have worked on the project. Jim McColl spoke to assembled press and public about the very real opportunity to deliver the Calyx to the people of Scotland through the creation of a sustainable new district for Edinburgh.