Location: Dundee, West Park conference centre
This year, the Forth Estuary Forum and Tay Estuary Forum will be holding a joint conference in Dundee at the West Park Conference Centre. The theme will be 'Preparing in partnership for marine planning in the Forth and Tay Scottish Marine Region'.
The Academy of Urbanism are holding their 12th Annual Congress between 14-17 September, alongside the City Festival and major counterpart events run by the City and their colleagues at Nordic City Network. There will be Danish and international speakers, site visits, hands-on sessions, an urbanists dinner, and an audience with Jan Gehl.
Location: Cumbernauld
This year’s CWA conference will take place on Friday 20th & Saturday 21st October 2017 at the Westwood Hotel, Cumbernauld. There will be a change to the usual format this year: the conference will start on Friday and the CWA will be welcoming groups from the rest of the UK who are involved in the Making Local Woods Work project. This Lottery-funded project aims to help people create social enterprises in local unmanaged woodlands so they can grow into sustainable businesses, creating new areas of employment and training to benefit their communities. This project hopes to open up much-needed access to the natural environment to provide opportunities for economic growth and encourages better engagement with the outdoors, resulting in better health and wellbeing for those involved.