A new guide for Scotland’s community gardeners and ‘allotmenteers’ offering information about growing food on land that may be contaminated, has been launched by the Grow Your Own Working Group.
The John Muir Way has been heralded as a great success today (Wednesday 24th December 2014) on the 100th anniversary of the death of the renowned naturalist.
The coast-to-coast route which runs between Dunbar and Helensburgh echoes John Muir’s own personal journey growing up in Scotland’s east coast town of Dunbar before travelling to the west coast, where he set sail for life in America.
As schools are facing increasing pressures to take on more and more pupils, and for those that already have restricted space, the prospect of taking on more pupils is a complex issue to tackle. This is currently affecting outdoor spaces in schools across England and has the potential to affect those across the UK.
Learning Through Landscapes (LTL) has recently launched its Briefing Paper, Looked After Children and the Natural Environment. The paper discusses the benefits of spending time outdoors on the physical and mental wellbeing of looked after children and explores the impacts this might have.
Cyclists are being urged to share their routes to help make Glasgow more bike friendly. By downloading a new mobile phone app, cyclists will provide data to improve the city’s cycle network.
The Designing Streets policy for street design in Scotland has had two case studies added to its online toolbox on the Creating Places website. The two examples use the Glasgow Commonwealth Games Athletes’ Village and Wauchope Square, Craigmillar sites to show good practice on the technical ‘street detail’ aspects of implementing Designing Streets.
The Forestry Commission have published a practice guide for Greenspace Design for Health and Well-Being. It follows consistent messages from research that point towards the positive relationship between greenspace and general health, and how healthcare facilities would logically benefit from this relationship.