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New post as Chair of leading urban conservation and planning body

News Items, Pre-2020By Cliff Hague 20. January 2023 Leave a comment

This item was posted in May 2016. I am pleased to confirm that I will become Chair of the Cockburn Association in June, when the present Chair, Lord Brodie, steps down. The Cockburn Association is one of the oldest urban conservation and planning organisations in the world. It was formed in 1875 and has a distinguished history…

Why civic trust is draining away

News Items, Pre-2020By Cliff Hague 20. January 2023 Leave a comment

This blog was published in March 2016. Civic pride and civic trust are important for community cohesion and well-being, but are being eroded by austerity and a centralised system of planning and local government. This was a central theme of the inaugural Scottish Civic Trust Annual Lecture which I delivered in Edinburgh on 2 March.…