Edinburgh Green PartyThe focus for the gathering will be National Planning Framework 4, with Green MSP Ariane Burgess speaking. Also the experience of an activist campaigning for greenspace in her local area.
The role of planning in protecting and enhancing biodiversity, the laws around nature protection and the policies designed to prevent further loss of biodiversity.
Gain an understanding of why getting community input on biodiversity is so vital at an early stage of the planning process.
What are Nature Networks and how do they fit into the planning system?
What planning conditions are, how they work, how they are enforced and how communities can influence them.
How to respond to increasing hostility to planning and environmental concerns bought about by the rise in right-wing populism and the growth-at-all-costs agenda
Open workshop organised by Planning Democracy to explore how to improve the planning system in Scotland.