Local Place Plans

Local Place Plan resources

This page has been prepared to help assist communities looking to prepare a local place plan. We will look to prepare a local place plan template and checklist to help and guide communities through the various steps and processes required.

See the Local Place Plans Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page on the Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park website - please note some of this information will not be relevant to SLC.

Existing guidance

Planning circular 1/2022: Local Place Plans (www.gov.scot)

Planning Aid Scotland Guide for Community Delivery of Local Place Plans

Local Place Plans (OurPlace.scot) – The Place Based Framework builds on existing good work across Scotland to provide a mechanism for how place-based working can be implemented effectively.

Knowledge is Power toolkit - programme is supporting community-led action research in Scotland

Scottish Community Development Centre - Local Place Plans: Challenges & Opportunities - a framework for draft guidance by SCDC and Nick Wright Planning (2020)

Draft how to guide for communities (transformingplanning.scot) - guide by SCDC and Nick Wright Planning (2023)

Relevant plans, reports and strategies

National Planning Framework 4: Revised Draft (www.gov.scot)

South Lanarkshire Community Planning Partnership - Community Plans and Neighbourhood Plans

Community Engagement Resources

Our Place - The Place Standard Tool - The Place Standard tool provides a simple framework to structure conversations about place.

Planning Aid Scotland - SP=EED - Effective engagement and delivery tool (Planning Aid Scotland, 2022)

VOiCE (voicescotland.org.uk) - Planning and recording software that assists individuals, organisations and partnerships to design and deliver effective community engagement.

National Library of Scotland - Boundaries viewer - Map boundaries in Scotland

Statistics and Resources to help inform LPP

Facts and figures about South Lanarkshire

Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD)

The Scottish Living Locally Data Portal (SLLDP) (arcgis.com)