Economic Development

Kincluny is aiming to be Scotland’s first sustainable village. But its notion of community sustainability goes far beyond eco-bling, as Clare Goff reports

‘The problem of all development is how do you create community?,’ says Bill Burr, managing director of Chap Homes in Aberdeen. With his company’s latest project, however, he thinks he has found the answer.

There’s a lot in the press these days about quality of life in England – post mortems around the summer riots, debates about the planning laws and ‘sustainable development’, the impact of financial disasters elsewhere.