15 July - Local Place Plan
BRDT begins planning activities for creating a Local Place Plan using the Community Action Plan as the starting point.
23 July - LPP Research & Introduction
Research into LPPs and guidelines.
LPP Background info - 20240723 - B&R LPP Introduction
15 August - LPP Maps Created
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.
19 August - LPP Initial Meeting
Meeting held with 27 attendees to run through the process.
2 September - Meet with PKC
Met with Alasdair Finlayson from PKC to discuss - PKC will support process but not comment on content
5 September - Posters & Surveys distributed
Posters and surveys have been distributed around the town.
7 September - Braemar Day
We handed out some surveys at Braemar Day and spoke with people.
8 September - Attend Highland Games
We attended the Blairgowrie & Rattray Highland Games with the maps and surveys and chatted with lots of people - including some from overseas.
10 to 17 September - Maps in Library
The maps and surveys were in the library from Tuesday 10 September to Tuesday 17 September - a Train Station and Heliport were among the interesting suggestions!
17 September - 2nd Meeting held
Here is the presentation from the 2nd meeting - LPP Mtg 17 September 2024.
18 to 27 September - Maps in BaRI Building (store times)
The maps and surveys were in the BaRI Building (55 High Street) from Wednesday 18 September to Friday 27 September and were available for people to drop in at store times.
28 September - Attend Farmers Market
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.
4 October - Maps and Talk at SCYD
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.
8 October - Survey Closing Date set as 8th November
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.
15 October - Speak with SCYD
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.
16 October - Maps at Climate Cafe
The maps will be at the Climate Cafe for them to review and provide comments.
22 October - 3rd Meeting
Mtg held updating progress on boundary maps, town centre focus and opporunities, suggestions/comments and things to include in document.
30 October - Open Spaces Meeting
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.
1 November - Drop In at Library
Local Place Plan Drop In was held at the Library from 1030 to 1230 with comments received.
5 November - Drop In at Library
Local Place Plan Drop In held at the Library from 11am to 1pm with more people providing comments.
8 November - Survey Closing Date
Online surveys closed on Friday 8th November.
8 November - Visit High School
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.
12 November - SCYD Comments received
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.
14 November - Visit High School in November
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.
18 November - 4th Meeting
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.
21 November - Meet with PKC
A 2nd meeting with PKC Planning Department to review progress.
9 December - 5th Meeting
We shared the structure of the document and the initial content to those who attended and got some great feedback, further questions and suggestions which we will incorporate into the draft.
Once this gets to a stage where we'd like to share it we will upload it.
13 January - Core Team Meeting
Our core group will meet to run through progress.
16 January - Meet with PKC Planning
We met with Dante Sosa from PKC Plnning to discuss progress of our doument and get some updated informaion from PKC.
23 January - Core Group meeting
The core group met again to discuss progress.
3 February - Core Group working on Draft LPP
Having captured the details over the past months the core group are now submitting comments and content etc for the compilation of the LPP Draft
12 February - Core Group LPP Document Review/Update
The Core Group will come together to go through latest updates.
17 February - Core Group finalise comments
By Monday 17 February we aim to have added all comments to the initial draft in preparation for proofreading.
20 February - Core Group review final version of first DRAFT
We will review the completed first DRAFT of the full LPP in preparation for the 28 day consultation period for the proposed submission document.
24 February - Start Date of 28 Day Consultation Period
Our aim is to have the final first DRAFT ready for 24 February to share with everyone inculding the required list of consultees (local councillors, surrounding Community Councils etc).
24 March - End of Consultation Period
The end of the consultation period when all feedback will be considered and minor amendments made if applicable.
31 March 2025 - LPP Registered
The LPP will be registered with PKC.
1 April - Begin the development of the LPP Implementation Plan
Once the LPP is registered, the real work begins to plan and develop the implementation.
