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Introduction and links to our team - you can get to the Community-led Action Planning toolkit from here too.

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Community Development | Argyll and Bute Council

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Our Community Development Team provide support, advice, tools and resources for communities.

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Argyll and Bute's LDP 2 guidance on what a community plan needs for materiality. 

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Argyll and Bute's LDP 2 guidance on what a community plan needs for materiality. 

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This 2020 guide to how to write an LPP is slightly divergent from the Guidance of 2021, but still full of great advice.

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Free for one year - mapping tool for community plans

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Providing digital maps and powerful tools to Parish & Town Councils. Parish Online includes tools and maps to help local councils produce neighbourhood plans, maintain asset registers and share data with their principal authority.

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Community-led Action Planning Argyll & Bute

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About this site
The Community-led Action Planning toolkit is a website to help local communities develop their own action plans.
Community-led action plans are a way for communities to change and improve their local area.

Community-led action plans help by setting out what will be done, who will do it and how it will be carried out.
Find out more about this site

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Community-led Action Planning Argyll & Bute

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An online toolkit for developing Community-led Actions Plans in Argyll & Bute.

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The Place Standard tool - a way of assessing places

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The Place Standard tool is a way of assessing places.

Whether the place is well-established, undergoing change, or is still being planned, the tool can help you.

Where do you want to start?

Tool

I want to complete the Place Standard tool.

Start

Group

I want to set up or manage a Place Standard group.

Register

Learn

I want to learn more about using the Place Standard.

Online Guide

What is the Place Standard Tool?

The Place Standard tool provides a simple framework to structure conversations about place. It allows you to think about the physical elements of a place (for example its buildings, spaces, and transport links) as well as the social aspects (for example whether people feel they have a say in decision making).

The tool provides prompts for discussions, allowing you to consider all the elements of a place in a methodical way. The tool pinpoints the assets of a place as well as areas where a place could improve.

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Whether the place is well-established, undergoing change, or is still being planned, the tool can help you. Tool I want to complete the Place Standard tool. Start Group I want to set up or manage a Place Standard group. Register Learn I want to learn more about using the Place Standard.

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Our Place page on Local Place Plans - see the "Themes" at the bottom of the page

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Local Place Plans

Local Place Plans offer communities the opportunity to develop proposals for their local area, expressing their aspirations and ambitions for future change.

Local Place Plans were introduced by the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019, which contains a new right for communities to produce their own plans as part of the new Scottish planning system. Local Place Plans contain the community's proposals for the development and use of land, and provide a new opportunity for communities to feed into the planning system with ideas and proposals.

However, Local Place Plans are more than just a plan: they can help communities understand what they wants to be like in the future and help to develop a positive community identity. They can help develop local connections and collaborations and develop community capacity and improve social capital. They can support community aspirations on the big challenges for a future Scotland, such as responding to the global climate emergency and tackling inequalities. They are an opportunity for real, community-based change.

In advance of Local Place Plan legislation, many communities and organisations have already been working in this way. Regulations to support the preparation, submission and registration of Local Place Plans came into force on 22nd January. See Circular 1/2022: Local Place Plans which contains Scottish Government guidance.

What is a Local Place Plan?

Though they should ideally be prepared collaboratively, Local Place Plans are community-led. They include proposals from communities about how land is developed and used within their local area and can describe the types of changes that local people want to see and be taken into account.

A Local Place Plan is an expression of community's aspirations and solutions which can influence the local planning policy. It sets out priorities for future development in an area, as well as helping communities to develop and deliver their own projects.

Local Place Plans are proposals from communities about how land is developed and used within their local area. It can describe the types of changes that local people want to see and be taken into account in the local authority development plan.

Local Place Plans include a spatial vision - a plan - for the community that sets out where changes should happen, and a map which shows where. they ca also contain an action plan laying out how changes will be delivered.

Local Place Plans - A How To Guide

The Scottish Community Development Centre and Nick Wright Planning developed a draft 'How to' Guide aimed at supporting communities to prepare Local Place Plans.

An updated version will be published shortly.

Access the draft How To Guide

Local Place Plans Research Report

A literature review and research report on community-led planning in Scotland was undertaken to help support the development of the draft 'How to'' guide.

Access the literature review report

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Local Place Plans Local Place Plans offer communities the opportunity to develop proposals for their local area, expressing their aspirations and ambitions for future change. Local Place Plans were introduced by the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019, which contains a new right for communities to produce their own plans as part of the new Scottish planning system.

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Argyll and Bute Council's LPP page - includes Guidance and Regulations 

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Argyll and Bute Council's LPP page - includes Guidance and Regulations 

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Local Place Plans (LPPs) are a new way for local communities to become engaged in planning to help shape the places where the community lives, works and plays.

Communities can use an LPP to highlight issues, gather ideas and look at needs and aspirations for the future of their community.

LPPs are community-led plans that can be promoted and developed by any individual or collection of community groups that either constitute a "community body" or a "community council".

An LPP enables communities to set out proposals for the development and use of land for a locally defined area. This can be a single place or building or cover a wider geographic area.

Once registered, LPPs will be taken into account in the preparation of the Local Development Plan. The current Local Development Plan has been reviewed and it is anticipated will be replaced by Local Development Plan 2 in 2023.

The preparation of Local Place Plans is governed by legislation. Sources of information on how to prepare an LPP are set out below.

Information Sources

Legislation and regulation

Guidance

Assistance

Register of Local Place Plans

LPPs, when completed in accordance with the regulations, will be registered and made available by the Council (excluding Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park area).

Currently there are no Local Place Plans registered with the council.

However, there have been a number of community-led plans already prepared in Argyll and Bute, including Community Action Plans.

Contact

If you have any questions regarding Local Place Plans or wish to register one please contact us by email: ldp@argyll-bute.gov.uk or call 01546 604158.

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Local Place Plans (LPPs) are a new way for local communities to become engaged in planning to help shape the places where the community lives, works and plays.

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One of the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park LPPs

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A web based storyboard - uses Parish Online mapping tool

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A Community Designed Vision of Our Place

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This LPP was "informed by" their earlier CAP and Spatial Vision - links to both herein.

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Free version available, and has been used for LPPs

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Slides from the training of Winter 2023

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Link to Stratherrick and Foyers CAP and LPP

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Between 2021 and 2023, we've been working hard to prepare and deliver two community-led plans here in Stratherrick and Foyers.

The first is our Community Action Plan setting out our overall strategy and priorities for the future.

The second is our Local Place Plan which shows how the Community Action Plan will land on the ground across our area.

Together, the two plans provide our agenda for the future - for community action, for investment and for public services and planning policy.

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Community Future is an initiative of Stratherrick and Foyers Community Trust. Our aim is to create "community action plan" that will contain our priorities and plans to guide how we as a community will take control of our future.