strong tradition of partnership working in Scotland. For example, the government's major initiative for peripheral estates, New Life for Urban Scotland, explicitly recognises the key role of local authorities, which is in marked contrast to the experience with Urban Development Corporations in England...
doi:10.1080/03003939308433686ArthurUniversityMidwinterUniversityInformaworldLocal Government StudiesMidwinter, A. (1993). Shaping Scotland's New Local Authorities: Arguments, Options, Issues. Local Government Studies, 19 (3) Autumn 1993, 351-367
Our approach was centered on all 32 Scottish local planning authorities. Initially a letter was sent to all planning directors in Scotland outlining the aims of the research and requesting interviews with key planning staff. A copy of the interview schedule (Fig. 2) was included so as to ...
Local authorities and economic development in Scotland The recently published Consultation Paper on the reform of local government in Scotland presents options which will have profound effects upon economic development activities of Scottish local authorities. In order to promote an informed... RW Mcquaid...
We begin with the complex formulae that the Westminster government uses to assess the spending needs of English local authorities, and we use these English formulae to assess the needs of Scottish local authorities for three major blocks of local services. These formulae suggest that Scotland ...
SI 1997/1872 Building standards (relaxation by Local Authorities) (Scotland) regulations 1997. (S.138)Legislation UK
“The Act passed in 2003 effectively extends the right to a home to single homeless people and couples without children. “For the last eight years, Scotland’s 32 local authorities have been preparing for the changes but with just over a year to go, the charity is warning that...
In addition, many of the local authorities unaffected by the reorganisation nonetheless had experienced small - though demographically significant - boundary changes since the last census. By the time the final phase of the reorganisation came into effect on 1st April 1998 the local government map ...
better Scotland’, which will demonstrate at least 30 ways in which the development of victim services at local authority level can help meet the Concordat agreed between the authorities and the Government and make Scotland, working in community partnerships, a safer, stronger place in which to ...
Based on these indicators, field work was carried out to review the web sites of all the local authorities of Catalonia, which is complemented by information provided by the entities themselves, related to the internal procedures. Finally, the resulting data are published in a report on the AOC...