Planning | The Engine Shed | Part of Historic Environment Scotland

Footage on this section gives an insight to building management, through a number of new housing scheme projects in Scotland as well as some building restoration case studies.

Progress report

A survey of Municipal Housing activity in Glasgow in 1946.

Glasgow’s housing problem

The construction of new houses to help with Glasgow's housing problems in 1919.

Greenock plans ahead

The main industrial and housing problems facing the Corporation of Greenock, and the solutions proposed to help in about 1948.

Homes for a Highland town

In the 1950s new houses were built in Inverness's suburbs. This Department of Health film tried to persuade people to move there from the inner city tenements.

Images and videos are provided courtesy of the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.

Thank you

The Engine Shed has been supported by a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, we have been able to create Scotland’s dedicated building conservation centre. It enables us to encourage understanding of traditional building materials and skills among the public and professionals and raise standards in conservation for traditional buildings.

Planning and building management