Halifax Courier

The design of a new Scottish town has been inspired by a Queensbury student. Kevin Jones, of Heather Place, Mountain, who is at Edinburgh College of Art, won a competition to help design Calderwood – a 7,000 residential development on the outskirts of the Scottish capital – after judges were wowed by his sketches of the way the town could look. His designs included green roads, modern housing and a landscape inspired by agriculture. Cars would take second-place to pedestrians. Landscape architecture student Kevin, a former North Halifax Grammar School pupil, entered the New Scottish Neighbour-hood Competition after it was opened to all students at the college. It was judged by a panel of experts including MSPs, councillors, architects and designers. As well as the chance to work on the real thing he won £1,000.