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Saturday column: Could an Edinburgh Centre for the Built Environment become a reality?

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Dec 06, 2025
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THE built environment industry in England, Scotland and Wales is an economic powerhouse hiding in plain sight.

New research by GLA Economics and the London School of Economics – commissioned by NLA – shows that the organisations that plan, fund, design, build and operate our towns and cities generate nearly a quarter of total economic output (£568bn in G…

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