Local Place Plan

Invitation to prepare a Local Place Plan

East Ayrshire Council is inviting its communities to prepare Local Place Plans. As per Section 15A of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 (as amended), all community bodies have an opportunity to prepare a Local Place Plan, giving communities the chance to feed into the planning system with proposals for the development and use of land and buildings.

What is a Local Place Plan?

The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019(External link) introduced a statutory right for community bodies to produce their own Local Place Plans.

The Purpose of a Local Place Plan is to express the local community’s aspirations and priorities with regards to the development and use of land.

For example, a Local Place Plan can be used to identify:

• 🏰 Places or buildings which the community values and wishes to protect

• 🏡 Sites where the community would welcome the development of new housing or community facilities

• 🏫 Improvements for town, village, or neighbourhood centres

• 🌱 Sites for community projects such as food growing, community gardens, or recreational space

• 🌳 Proposals to tackle climate change, such as renewable energy, flood risk management and tree planting

• 🚲 Initiatives to improve and promote active travel

… and many other land use issues, depending on what is important to your community!

Taken from https://engagementea.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/local-place-plans