Scotland plans to deliver 100,000 new homes by 2032 to meet strong demand for housing. However, creating great new places with their own identities, where people really want to live, requires more than houses. Successful large-scale residential developments also need a mix of local amenities, shops, workplaces, schools, public spaces and different housing types.

This year has taught us many things – most of them character-forming as my mother was fond of saying - but one genuinely good thing to have emerged from this pandemic is the curative power of communities to care for each other.