Author: Vivian Linacre

Vivian Linacre

Over our fifteen years Vivian Linacre was regular contributor to ThinkScotland but will be remembered best for the many successful campaigns he ran – to save Perth City Hall, as President of the Imperial Weights and Measures Association, as the founder of the charity Spifox and his colourful in influential career in the UK commercial property market.

Think Culture

This unhappy breed

THE INTERVAL at any theatrical performance is usually marked by the fall of a curtain, which is raised again at the start of the next

October 2, 2021

Think Politics

Demolition refused – how Perth City Hall was saved

THE EARLIER HISTORY of the sham council-led redevelopment of Perth City Hall, ‘Designed to fail’, covered the disastrous competitive tendering that wasted the years from

September 28, 2021

Think Politics

Designed to fail – how Perth Council sought to demolish City Hall

IN SEPTEMBER 2004, Perth and Kinross Council published a brochure, launching a public competition to propose new uses for Perth City Hall, the great ‘B’-listed

September 27, 2021