BRDT begins planning activities for creating a Local Place Plan using the Community Action Plan as the starting point.

Research into LPPs and guidelines.

LPP Background info - 20240723 - B&R LPP Introduction

6 x local maps created and current things we have annotated and added. Maps will be used in locations to focus ideas and allow discussion.

Meeting held with 27 attendees to run through the process. 

Met with Alasdair Finlayson from PKC to discuss - PKC will support process but not comment on content

Posters and surveys have been distributed around the town. 

We will be handing out some surveys at Braemar Day.

We will be present at the Blairgowrie & Rattray Highland Games with the maps and surveys for you to chat with us and discuss. Please do come along.

The maps and surveys will be in the library from Tuesday 10 September to Tuesday 17 September.

Here is the presentation from the 2nd meeting - LPP Mtg 17 September 2024.

The maps and surveys were in the BaRI Building (55 High Street) from Wednesday 18 September to Friday 27 September - pop in at store times:

• Mondays 2pm to 3pm
• Wednesdays 4pm to 5pm
• Thursdays 9.30am to 10.30am
• Saturdays 10.30am to 12pm

We attended the Blairgowrie & Rattray Farmer & Producers Market on 28 September with the maps and surveys and had a steady flow of people discussing ideas and the maps with several surveys either completed or taken away.

We took the maps to SCYD and chatted with the young people about the LPP and what their ideas were for the town. The maps will remain in SCYD until 15 October.

The closing date for the surveys will be Friday 8th November 2024 to allow us time to collate the ideas and theme them. We then plan to ask people to select the ones they agree with in order to identify how popular each is which will help going forward.

We will be speaking with the young people to hear their ideas and will be collecting the maps to bring them back to the BaRI Building.

The maps will be at the Climate Cafe for them to review and provide comments.

Mtg held updating progress on boundary maps, town centre focus and opporunities, suggestions/comments and things to include in document.

The Open Spaces meeting looked at the open spaces, cycle paths and path networks and what we would like to see going forward and we encouraged the groups to complete the survey.

Local Place Plan Drop In was held at the Library from 1030 to 1230 with comments received.

Local Place Plan Drop In held at the Library from 11am to 1pm with more people providing comments.

Online surveys closed on Friday 8th November.

We visited the ISP pupils and held a session in Barry Bites during lunch and spokle with around 50 puplis from Blairgowrie High School and got some great feedback.

We received a compiled list of suggestions from the young people at SCYD as a result of the maps being there for a week and our 2 visits.

We visited the rest of the ISP pupils and held another session in Barry Bites during lunch and spokle with around 30 puplis from Blairgowrie High School and got some great feedback.

We met with locals on Monday evening 19 November to go through progress and provide an indication of the comments and ideas received and had a good discussion over the full 6 themes of the LPP.

Work now continues on collating the comments and preparing the document.

A 2nd meeting with PKC Planning Department to review progress.

Note change of date from 10 Dec to 9 Dec. Email admin@brdt.org.uk to register attendance.

We hope to have the initial version drafted for sharing and feedback.

Around the middle of January 2025, we will review the version that we intend to submit.

The LPP will be registered with PKC.

Once the LPP is registered, the real work begins to plan and develop the implementation.