Scott Mackay

City Development Plan 2 (CDP2) has been given the green light by the Council's Economy, Housing, Transport and Regeneration Committee. It will now go before the City Administration Committee for approval and will be the subject of public consultation.

A down to earth chat about the planning system today. How would you improve it? #thehardhattalks youtube.com/watch?v=ahV_WS…

More Council's need to do this. Simple, with huge beneficial outcomes for relatively low cost.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a better use of council money. Huge shout to to @Merton_Council for the improve of their shop parades in the region. Improving how an area looks has a major impact on the local economy. I always remember the story of broken windows in New York. The theory is simple. One broken window left unrepaired signals that nobody cares. So another gets broken. Then another. Until decline becomes the norm and feels impossible to reverse. The opposite is also true. One renovated shopfront tells the street that someone gives a damn. A business owner sees their neighbour invest and thinks , maybe I should too. A customer walks past and decides to go in rather than walk on. A landlord fixes the flat above because suddenly the area feels worth it. It’s not just paint and signage. It’s a signal. And signals change behaviour at scale. The before and after here isn’t just aesthetic. It’s economic. It’s the difference between a high street in decline and one with a future. More councils should be doing exactly this.

"The 6th biggest economy in the world is run by infantile fantasists with no understanding of financial markets.... There's nothing progressive about driving the economy of a cliff"📉⛰️ @LiamHalligan @ #BattleFest 2025 "From steel to railways: can the state revitalise British industry?"👨‍🏭🚆 👇

111 Union Street should be replaced by a larger and grander building that meets the roofline of its neighbour. It should be built in a Glaswegian Victorian style. It’s possible, despite what weirdo architects and the developer lobby will tell us.

Anyone planning on spending their boxing day stuffing themselves with leftovers may enjoy revisiting the time Fyfe Robertson travelled to Ennis in Ireland to experience the kind of food he himself had experienced in his youth.

See the ongoing restoration of George Square’s 11 bronze statues, a fascinating part of the @GlasgowCityRgn project to transform the Square.

Looks perfect 👌

@compzard a 2024 T6.1 VW California Ocean 4motion, with locking diff.

What car are you buying next year? Speak into existence.

New local plan system launching early 2026 Following today’s ministerial statement, we're sharing important news about the future of local plan development in England. Read more: gov.uk/government/new… #LocalPlan #Planning @mhclg

Ok, now I need a seal. I'll just stick the pup in my salt water pool. 🥹

@ScottM1983_RFC Lots of inspiring examples from others who have done the same . Look up one.life.truck.it on Instagram. Go for it!

Well I’ve done something that could either be fucking stupid or be the making of me. At 42 I’ve quit my job, sold my house and with the equity and my savings I’m going to go travelling. Don’t know where it will take me but it’s something I need to do.

@SimonForrest11 Every time. Same at Glasgow airport.

Edinburgh Airport continues its quest to screw every Scot & visitor that has the misfortune to transit its miserable, miserly, cowshed tribute to corporate greed. I prepaid. It tries this every time, preying on people's panic & visitors ignorance... what a welcome to Scotland!

I have been loving photography on the streets of Glasgow at night.

@WrldOFNature @InterestingSTEM Photographers call this ‘chimping’

Curious Chimpanzee checking out photos clicked by wildlife photographer JC Pieri

@Suffragent_ someone do this for Kermode and Mayo, please!

OMG, who did this?? 😂😂😂😂😂

Most of Inner London fell into poverty in the twentieth century, and expensive neighbourhoods like Notting Hill, Pimlico and Islington were seen as slums just decades ago. Here is a street in Notting Hill in the 1970s and today. Why did this happen? Some thoughts.

another day, another example of planning decision making becoming more a tick box exercise than an informed judgement call

@elonmusk This book opened my eyes to this history - amzn.eu/d/bQ69RSs