Mid Steeple Quarter Dumfries

Be Inspired Event - Mid-Steeple Quarter Dumfries

September 2025

On 5 September 2025 the master planning team attended the Glasgow Institute of Architects Midsteeple Quarter Talk and Tour to gain further insight into the project and the community led model implemented in Dumfries High Street.

Midsteeple Quarter is a community benefit society; a community-led organisation aiming to regenerate Dumfries High Street. The Standard Building is the first completed building project by Midsteeple Quarter and comprises enterprise and commercial spaces together with residential units. ARPL Architects designed the Standard Building to be highly efficient, flexible and adaptable to the needs of the tenants and the wider community.

Key takeaways

• Understanding different funding and delivery models of Community led and socially sustainable projects
• Success of a project which combines community space and town centre living
• Various sustainability models utilising geothermal mass, ASHP and MVHR