When I think about some of the big infrastructure changes that we will see in the near future, it highlights the importance that space – in the right place – will play in the realisation of those changes.

It’s the reason why ports infrastructure in Scotland has developed so rapidly to serve offshore wind, and with that has come the return of added value to rural ports and the communities around them as they find themselves in the right place.

The same can be said for rail transport, particularly for freight and rolling stock maintenance, and recently we have had the privilege of working with one such location. It’s one that until lately you could say has been a hidden railway gem in the heart of Dumfries and Galloway, only perhaps not so hidden now.

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Down a leafy single-track road in Eastriggs in the south of Scotland, is the site of a widespread factory complex known in its day "as the largest factory in the empire", having been built to address a huge demand for munitions in World War I. HM Factory Gretna produced "Devil’s Porridge", the name given to a form of explosive known as cordite used as a propellant in munitions, employing 30,000 workers with 12,000 of them being........

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