This report describes our performance in the planning system for the 2018-19 financial year.
SERVICE: Town Centre Living Advice
A&DS is developing a design advice service on town centre living, initially looking at town centres as Caring Places for older people.
SERVICE: Health Design Advice
Our Health Design Advice service, delivered with Health Facilities Scotland, helps those who commission new, or substantially redeveloped, facilities.
SERVICE: Pre-Design Support for Housing
Pre-Design Support for Housing: working with local authorities and housing associations at the very start of the process of developing homes.
OUR APPROACH: Providing Advice
One of our key areas of work is to provide advice on design - A&DS supports investment in homes and public buildings, and everything in between.
OUR APPROACH: Promoting the value of design
We work with partners to ensure that design becomes central to how we plan our places - to demonstrate the value of design.
OUR APPROACH: Sharing Learning to Build Capacity
Learning: A&DS offers a number of ways to share good practice, build connections and support and develop confidence in new ways to approach things.
OUR WORK: Empowering Communities
A&DS supports communities, providing advice and support and we promote the benefits of community engagement and share examples of good work.
OUR WORK: Creating well-designed schools, hospitals and public buildings
We are committed to helping those who fund, design and use our public buildings. A&DS does this by providing advice, supporting client and user groups
OUR WORK: Improving the design quality of infrastructure and public space
One of our priorities is to improve the design quality of our public spaces and infrastructure to support wellbeing.