Local Place Plans
New planning legislation introduces a right for communities to produce their own plans, known as Local Place Plans, providing the opportunity for communities to feed into the planning system with their own ideas and proposals for the development and use of land.
These community-led plans will set out the aspirations of people for the place they live in and suggest solutions. By setting out priorities for future development in an area, Local Place Plans can also help communities to develop and deliver their own projects and bring about community-based change.
To help communities with regulatory requirements and submission of Local Place Plans we have produced a document that includes a number of templates for producing Information Notices and a suggested Supporting Statement Template to accompany submission of the Local Place Plan document to the Planning Authority.
Once completed and then registered by the Council, a Local Place Plan will be considered by us in the preparation of the Local Development Plan.
Local Place Plans give communities a new way to have their ideas considered during the preparation of a Local Development Plan but are not part of the Development Plan. Proposals put forward in a Local Place Plan may be included in the Local Development Plan, but there may be other considerations which mean they are not. We will show why community proposals have or have not been included and there will be the opportunity for this to be independently assessed.
Local Place Plan Register
Below is a list of officially registered Local Place Plans. This is where a Plan has been submitted in accordance with the regulations and validated by the Council.
Other Community Plans and Place Plans
There are also a number of other Community Action Plans and Place Plans that have been prepared by communities that are not officially registered as they would not meet the requirements of the Local Place Plan regulations, or were produced prior to the regulations coming into force.
Here is a list of the completed plans:
If you are a Community Council or community body interested in preparing a Local Place Plan, or you have any questions about Local Place Plans, please get in touch: devplan@orkney.gov.uk
