INVESTING IN QUALITY

Improving the Design of New Housing in the Scottish Countryside

The Physical Quality of Housing, a framework for action: Scottish Homes, 1996

National Planning Policy Guideline 3 (revised): Land for Housing: Scottish Office, 1996

Planning Advice Note 44: Fitting New Housing Development Into The Landscape: Scottish Office, 1994

Planning Advice Note 36: Siting and Design of New Housing in the Countryside: Scottish Office, 1991

The Lowland Crofting Handbook: West Lothian District Council, 1996

Fields of Vision, New Ideas in Rural House Design: RIAS 1993

An Evaluation of the Craft Homes Experiment: Rural Development Commission, Research Report No 4, 1989

Planning for Rural Diversification: A Good Practice Guide (DoE) HMSO, 1995

Timber Frame Houses in the Scottish Countryside: John and Margaret Richards; for Scottish Office Building Directorate: HMSO, 1994

Moray District Local Plan 1993-1998: Housing in the Countryside

Guidance on the Siting and Design of Houses in Rural Areas: Perth and Kinross District Council, 1995

Natural Heritage Designations Review: Scottish Office, 1996

A Future for Stone in Scotland: Hutton and Rostron (Consultants) for Historic Scotland, 1997

Landscape Assessment of Skye and Lochalsh: Caroline Stanton for SNH, 1996

Landscape Assessment of Kinross Local Plan Area: David Tyldesley and Associates for SNH, 1995

Towards a Development Strategy for Rural Scotland : A Discussion Paper: Scottish Office 1997

Changing Places, The design and siting of housing in rural Scotland: APRS, 1997

Design in the Countryside: Countryside Commission, 1993

Countryside Design Summaries: Countryside Commission, 1996

Acknowledgements

Photographs have been provided by courtesy of the following:

Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland

Department of Planning: Angus Council

Director of Planning: Perth and Kinross Council

Highland Council: Skye and Lochalsh Area

Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland

Bell Ingram Building Department: Perth

David Sumsion in Association with Crallan and Winstanley Architects: Argyll

Douglas Forest, Architect: Aberdeenshire

Dualchas Building Design: Isle of Skye

Fergus Purdie Architect: Perth

Gaia Architects: Edinburgh

National Trust for Scotland: Inverness

New Lives New Landscapes: Falkirk

R Alexander, Design Consultants: Kilmarnock

R. Salmon, Architect: Worcestershire

Scottish Consortium of Timber Frame Industries: Falkirk

The Scottish Office gives particular thanks for advice and contributions in preparing this document to:

Sebastian Tombs and other staff at RIAS

Howard Liddell, Gaia Architects

Anne Cunningham, West Lothian Council, Planning Department

Elizabeth Garland and others at APRS

Graeme Slaven and other staff at the Faculty of Design, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

David Rice and other staff at the Department of Town and Regional Planning, Dundee University

Staff in the Department of Economic Development and Planning, Moray Council

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