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Facilitating Change (UK) Ltd is delighted to be supporting Vattenfall’s stakeholder engagement activities in relation to its ground breaking hydrogen project which has been awarded £9.3m [...]

Facilitating Change (UK) Ltd is delighted at Crown Estate Scotland’s decision to award the leasing rights to develop the 2 GW West of Orkney Windfarm to a consortium comprising Macquarie’s Green [...]

https://www.renaldi.com/touching-strangers/#2 Most public engagement activities start with a context of strangeness.  Not strange in the sense of being weird or peculiar but strange as in [...]

1st October 2021 Today is a significant day for Facilitating Change. I step down as Managing Director and will be handing the reins to Victoria McCusker (Tori) who will become Managing Partner.I [...]

Scotland bans Fracking In October this year the Scottish government announced a ban on fracking due to the ‘overwhelming’ public opposition. The Scottish government‘s decision was driven by a [...]

Most of us in the planning industry know that when developers have a development they want to construct, it’s usually only when they are just about to submit the planning application that they [...]

The Planning Act etc. (2006) Scotland provided a great opportunity to take pre-application engagement to a new level. Provisions were made in the Development Management (planning applications) [...]

What is the consultation about? The Scottish Government’s (planning and architect division) consultation on the future of the Scottish planning system is a response to the independent review of [...]