OUR VILLAGE - OUR VOICE - OUR FUTURE
Some background information
Local Place Plans & Community Action Plans
Long established Community Action Plans and new Local Place Plans are each a form of community-led plan
Benefits of a Community Action Plan (CAP)
Clear vision ✔️
Agreed priorities ✔️
Timeline for achievement ✔️
Options for implementation ✔️
Additional benefits of a Local Place Plan (LPP)
Influence over future Local Development Plan (Aberdeenshire LDP) ✔️
Impact on future development ✔️
Spatial plan ✔️
We are working on a plan for Aboyne that will be a new Local Place Plan (LPP)
but which will also include the benefits of a Community Action Plan (CAP)!
What goes into a Local Place Plan?
A Local Place Plan has to take various factors into consideration:
Community
The plan must reflect OUR VOICE
Autumn 2023 community survey (very important!)
Other surveys, such as the December 2020 Station Square survey
It should also ask about OUR FUTURE
Questions such as:
In 30 years time, how do you see the village - for example, should there be growth (or de-growth)?
What legacy do we want to leave for future generations?
What trends or uncertainties should we take into account?
Environment
The plan should also take account of other relevant local information, such as:
The impact of the current closure of Aboyne Bridge
Environmental impacts such as flooding
Existing projects and visions
Other data and information about Aboyne, such as demographic forecasts
Government
Finally, the plan has to be in line with national and local planning policies
National policies - National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4)
Local policies - Aberdeenshire Local Development Plan 2023
and should reflect principles such as
Scotland’s National Performance Framework
The UN's Sustainable Development Goals
(And now for the the boring stuff ...)
A Local Place Plan must also comply with certain legal requirements ...
It must:
Be prepared by a "community body"
Be a proposal as to the development or use of land
Fulfil certain legal requirements:
Section 14 of The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019
The Town and Country Planning (Local Place Plans) (Scotland) Regulations 2021
It must also comply with the relevant national and local planning policies
We're aiming to make sure that all of this is complied with so that OUR VOICE is heard when it comes to the FUTURE of OUR VILLAGE!
(For more information on the requirements for Local Place Plans, see Aberdeenshire Council's Local Place Plan Quick Guide)
