What you need to know
Useful Links
Other resources and tools to help you find out more about Local Place Plans
Guide for community delivery of Local Place Plans prepared by Planning Aid Scotland.
The Scottish Government’s Our Place website has information about Local Place Plans and other place-related initiatives.
Draft ‘How to Guide’ for communities on Local Place Plans, produced in 2020 for the Scottish Government by SCDC (Dave Allan and Paul Nelis) and Nick Wright.
The primary legislation governing Local Place Plans can be found in Section 14 of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019.
Secondary legislation governing Local Place Plans is contained in the The Town and Country Planning (Local Place Plans) (Scotland) Regulations 2021.
Official guidance for communities and Scottish Government Planning circular 1/2022: Local Place Plans provides guidance to communities and planning authorities on the preparation, submission and registration of Local Place Plans.
Community Action Plan Tools
Community-led Action Planning Argyll & Bute (communitytoolkit.net) - this online toolkit takes you through the stages of developing a community-led action plan and provides resources and templates you can download and adapt to use in your own process.
A Community Action Planning Toolkit (cairngorms national park) this pdf toolkit takes you through the stages of developing a community-led action plan and provides resources and templates you can use as inspiration to develop your own materials.
Mapping tools
The Community Map Scotland project is providing free access to the Parish Online tool for community councils for one year.
Some of the consultants we’re aware are working on Local Place Plans (this list is not exhaustive and you should publicise widely if you’re looking to recruit a consultant to help you)
Local Place Plans and Community Action Plans - Community Enterprise
Registered Local Place Plans
A sample of some of the Local Place Plans that are already in place across Scotland.