I know it comes down to cost every time but there is so little ambition or vision for these new places, they could not get blander if they tried.
We will see if they happen but the new garden city and Edwardian style cities being proposed in England look at least interesting!Â
TIL Aberlour is a “new” town. Admittedly I’ve normally only been visiting for shopping or just passing through on the way to Elgin or Spey-bay. There are new-ish houses where the old orphanage used to be and some new houses building between Aberlour and Glenalachie distilleries, but it always was a town to me, never a village.
There are five new towns in Scotland.
Glenrothes, Livingston, Cumbernauld, East Kilbride and Irvine.
It has a specific, statuatory meaning. A “new town” not chartered under the New Towns Acts might be new but its not a new town.
The three “new” Borders towns are not new… they are the post-war housing estates built on the edges of Galashiels, Selkirk, and Hawick – Langlee, Bannerfield, and Burnfoot, respectively. The NRS appears to have changed the methodology of how localities are defined in recent years – as these schemes were built on greenfield sites outside of their towns, they are separated by their towns by a slither of unpopulated area, and now seem to count as their own towns. But nobody in the Borders would consider them to be independent areas.
Lochgelly and Sauchie are also on the list, so it seems to be a misleading headline all around. Although I will say that [Understanding Scottish Places](https://usp.scot/) is a great resource for understanding Scotland’s towns.
How do they actually classify a town? There are villages with way higher populations than this I’m pretty sure?
Longforgan is absolutely not a town. Or at least if it is, why isn’t Inchture? Ferryden is a bit of Montrose, it certainly isn’t a seperate town in its own right. This is a load of shite.
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I know it comes down to cost every time but there is so little ambition or vision for these new places, they could not get blander if they tried.
We will see if they happen but the new garden city and Edwardian style cities being proposed in England look at least interesting!Â
TIL Aberlour is a “new” town. Admittedly I’ve normally only been visiting for shopping or just passing through on the way to Elgin or Spey-bay. There are new-ish houses where the old orphanage used to be and some new houses building between Aberlour and Glenalachie distilleries, but it always was a town to me, never a village.
There are five new towns in Scotland.
Glenrothes, Livingston, Cumbernauld, East Kilbride and Irvine.
It has a specific, statuatory meaning. A “new town” not chartered under the New Towns Acts might be new but its not a new town.
The three “new” Borders towns are not new… they are the post-war housing estates built on the edges of Galashiels, Selkirk, and Hawick – Langlee, Bannerfield, and Burnfoot, respectively. The NRS appears to have changed the methodology of how localities are defined in recent years – as these schemes were built on greenfield sites outside of their towns, they are separated by their towns by a slither of unpopulated area, and now seem to count as their own towns. But nobody in the Borders would consider them to be independent areas.
Lochgelly and Sauchie are also on the list, so it seems to be a misleading headline all around. Although I will say that [Understanding Scottish Places](https://usp.scot/) is a great resource for understanding Scotland’s towns.
How do they actually classify a town? There are villages with way higher populations than this I’m pretty sure?
Longforgan is absolutely not a town. Or at least if it is, why isn’t Inchture? Ferryden is a bit of Montrose, it certainly isn’t a seperate town in its own right. This is a load of shite.
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