Finn Watkins

Finn provides support to the planning and policy team and to our members through the ever-changing planning landscape to ensure housing delivery in Scotland. This includes engaging in and working collaboratively with local authorities on policy and the plan-making process and providing insight and advice to our members on local and regional planner matters.  

He studied Urban Planning at the University of Dundee where he gained a comprehensive knowledge of the planning system and researched and analysed the barriers to housing delivery in Edinburgh for his dissertation. Finn is a licentiate member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and is working towards becoming a chartered town planner.  

“I am currently facing the challenging prospect of getting on the housing ladder in Edinburgh during a housing emergency like many other people in the city and across the whole of Scotland. I also witnessed my peers in university struggle to secure suitable housing as student numbers recovered after COVID19 in Dundee. My mother worked in the third sector for housing for over a decade, so I grew up hearing about the increasing housing problems facing Scotland. All of this combined with my university research into barriers to housing delivery in Edinburgh means I am very determined to help make a difference in my role at Homes for Scotland.”