Regeneration

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 is much talk these days about the need for social action and innovation to be scaled up. As the public sector retracts there are calls for social enterprises to expand and run public services, and for great examples of social action to be built on and replicated.