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Early work for the next Stirling Local Development Plan is underway, and we wanted to let you know of a few key elements that may be of particular interest to you.
Have Your Say survey
To help us start the process of producing the new Local Development Plan (LDP), we want your views to inform the preparation of an Evidence Report. This is an initial information gathering stage that will lay the foundations for the new LDP. You can find out more about the LDP process on our Developing our next Stirling Local Development Plan page - Developing our next Stirling Local Development Plan | Stirling Council.
Your views will also inform the preparation of a new Local Transport Strategy (LTS). The LTS will lay out the Council’s plans to improve all aspects of transport across the entire Stirling Council area. With this in mind, we are keen to understand where there are any transport-related problems in your area, which can cover any transport type. Please find the link here: https://engage.stirling.gov.uk/en-GB/folders/have-a-say-in-the-future-of-your-place
Self-Build Register
Self-build housing is where an individual (whether acting alone or with other individuals) commissions or is personally involved in the design and construction of a dwelling that is intended to be the individual’s main residence once it is built. We now invite you to register your interest by completing the registration form available through this link: https://www.stirling.gov.uk/planning-and-building/planning/development-planning/self-build-housing-registration-and-list/
Local Place Plans
Work has begun on assisting our communities in the preparation of their Local Place Plans. A resource hub has been set up to answer questions, provide resources and give guidance at any time. This can be viewed here: https://www.stirling.gov.uk/planning-and-building/planning/development-planning/local-place-plans-lpp-resource-hub/
If you are intending on producing a Local Place Plan and haven’t spoken to us already, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if further information would be useful to you.
We hope to be in touch again soon to provide further updates.
Best regards
Stirling Council LDP team
As part of its wider strategic campaign ‘Your Water, Your Life’, Scottish Water has committed to install outdoor water bottle filling stations across Scotland to encourage and promote the use of refillable bottles which customers can fill up with one of the country’s best-loved products - our nation’s tap water.
The benefits of topping up with fresh, great-tasting tap water are clear - it’s good value and good for the pocket, it’s good for the environment and it’s good for health. https://www.yourwateryourlife.co.uk/whats-new/
We have been piloting different locations and partnership opportunities, and would like to advise you of our proposal to locate a TUT in Dunblane to serve local patrons, community groups and visitors. This would also further complement existing Top Up Taps and future locations we have in planning for the wider area
We will go through for planning permission to be granted for this location where public consultation will be open but I would like the opportunity to engage with you directly in the first instance.
We are interested in locating a TUT near by the famous golden post box.
I look forward to hearing from you and hearing any feedback you may have.
Amy Methven
Corporate Affairs, TUT Project Manager
Phone: 01414830746
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Citizens' Advice Bureau has started advice sessions at Dunblane Library.
Dunblane school receives military charity's Recognition Award
To formally acknowledge extra endeavour, SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity in Scotland, the Regional Recognition Award (RRA) was established earlier this year.
So far, the RRA – a specially commissioned SSAFA Scotland Region engraved shield – has been awarded to individuals, be they volunteers or staff, for their sterling contributions to the welfare of serving personnel and veterans, and their families.
But in a break with this new tradition, the RRA has been awarded to a school. Queen Victoria School in Dunblane has received this major accolade to mark the very successful collaborative production of Archie's Issues, sponsored by SSAFA with The Collaborative Veterans in March 2023.
The production of Archie's Issues was hailed as "... a triumph..." by theatregoers, and the effort by pupils and staff of Queen Victoria School was critical to its success.
Graham Meacher, SSAFA's Scotland Regional Chair, said: "The support, interest, enthusiasm, and creativity displayed by Queen Victoria School pupils and staff in the production of Archie's Issues made making the school a collective recipient of the Regional Recognition Award an easy decision.
"Quite simply, without them, the production would not have been the success it was, and so it is entirely fitting that SSAFA in Scotland recognises their superb effort, and we plan to build on the excellent relationship established."
The presentation was made at the dress rehearsal for The Grand Day at Queen Victoria School in the presence of Sarah Chester (Executive Producer), Liz Miller and Billy McWilliam representing The Creative Veterans, Mary Kenyon (Chairman SSAFA Forth Valley), and Headmaster Donald Shaw in front of the school body.
The next Regional Recognition Awards will be announced in August.
For more information, visit ssafa.org.uk/scotland.
A Land Management Plan is being proposed for land to the North West of Dumyat.
See the website; Download the plan
Quoting from the website
'Drumbrae is a newly acquired site of around 431 hectares that will be managed by the University of Edinburgh to create woodland and improve open habitat. It is in the Ochils, near the city of Stirling, north of Bridge of Allan. It sits in the Stirling Local Authority Area.
A new Land Management Plan is being produced to map out and guide what we will do at Drumbrae.
It covers:
- woodland creation
- increasing biodiversity
- engaging with local communities, local to the site and internally at the University of Edinburgh.'
The land was on the market recently for £1.850m. Here is the sales brochure.
Wind2 and Octopus Energy are proposing a 15 turbine windfarm behind Alva and Sherrifmuir.
https://windburnwindfarm.co.uk/
This will produce green energy with less wastage than offshore wind. but some may be concerned about any visual impact.
Have your say :
https://www.facebook.com/DunblaneCommunityCouncil/
Dunblane Sports Club were celebrating 100 years of tennis at the weekend with a family fun day and an adult fun tournament.
The first 2 tennis courts on the site were opened on 11th July 1923 by Mrs Donaldson of Kilbryde Castle with a pavilion and 2 further courts added in 1924/5.
The courts have recently been resurfaced with artificial clay.
The club is planning a gala dinner in the Hydro in September. More info on their Facebook page.
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Dunblane Burns Club was originally founded in 1923 but has been out of action for some time. A number of individuals are getting together to relaunch Club 503 as it is known by the Robert Burns World Federation. Following a meeting with the President of the Robert Burns World Federation, the relauch has been confirmed with the first dinner on 9th Feb 2024. The club will be a modern interpretation of tradiitonal values and will be open to ladies and men.
The Big Dunblane Survey is a public consultation project running through 2023 with the survey expected to go live in late summer. The aim is to gather the opinion of residents on a range of topics that affect our town and villages. All residents that live within the remit of the Dunblane Community Council are invited to take part (this includes Ashfield and Kinbuck).
The survey aims to do 3 things
1. Help inform the ‘Local Place Plan’ report for Dunblane (which Stirling Council is legally obliged to take account of for the next Stirling Local Development Plan). 2. Help inform the key initiatives that community groups will take forward to improve our town. 3. Help build evidence so that we can apply for grants to fund improvement projects.
Previous Plans
Town Centre Charrette & Community Action Plan
In 2015/16 Dunblane Community Council, Dunblane Development Trust and Discover Dunblane came together to turn the results of the Town Centre Charrette into a Community Action Plan which it is hoped will bring improvements and new activity to Dunblane.
Dunblane's previous Action Plan had expired at the end of 2014, after much had been achieved. It is hoped that the draft Community Action Plan reflects the needs of Dunblane – residents, businesses and visitors – and that the actions are aspirational but achievable. The draft Plan shows what the community wants to achieve – and will help to get other partners involved, raise funds for new projects – and get the wider community of Dunblane involved.replica rolex oyster 20mm old style buy rolex replica reptime bst replica blue rolex
The Town Centre Charrette : What Happened?
Why a Charrette and why the Town Centre?
Over the past 40 years Dunblane’s community size and needs have outgrown its centre. It was hoped that the Charrette would help define, design and develop our town centre to appropriately support the whole community through business, service and leisure amenities over the next 20 year. Also, the Stirling Local Development Plan has a stated intention to create a Spatial Strategy for Dunblane town centre and “environs”. A Charrette leads to an action plan that guides the best use of available resources. With funding from the Scottish Government Charette Programme we were able to hold the Charrette in April 2015.
What happened in the Charrette?
In March, working with PAS our consultants, we held a series of preparatory exercises included a survey, “issue raising” community workshops and activities involving school children. Local people attended a 4 day event (the Charrette) in April to generate ideas for designing the future of their town centre by addressing several questions including: How could it function as a focal point for community interaction? What should its boundaries be? How could the spaces within those boundaries develop to satisfy future community need?
What was the outcome?
A Vision was developed to help guide our actions in the future: ‘The Dunblane community wants the Town Centre area to be a vibrant, healthy and inclusive place for people to live, work and visit’. Ideas generated at the Charrette workshops helped formulate FIVE principles for the future development of our town centre:
- Vibrancy & sustainability
- Accessibility
- Capitalising on our natural and built heritage.
- Supporting community cohesion.
- Meeting the future needs of the community.
What happened after the Charrette?
A report was published in September and the Steering Group (now called the Dunblane Community Partnership) has been considering the report and developing a draft Community Action Plan.
To help develop the Action Plan, a report & proposed action plan was produced. In January 2016, everybody living or working in Dunblane was invited to give their views on these action proposals through an online survey. From the survey, the priority areas from which clear immediate actions should be identified are:
- Balancing the accessibility needs of pedestrians, businesses and car users in the Town centre area
- Improving the Riverside area
- The future maintenance and development of public services/buildings, particularly with regard to public toilets
- Further investigation of future opportunities for use of space in and adjacent to the town centre
The Community Action Plan
Representatives of Dunblane Community Council, Dunblane Development Trust and Discover Dunblane took the information generated through the Charrette and the responses from the online survey and put together a draft Community Action Plan to guide activity and partnership working and support our efforts to raise funding. The draft Community Action plan has Five Themes and Ideas for future actions. A copy of the draft Community Action Plan can be found here
1. A Vibrant and Sustainable Town Centre for People and Community Activity - concerned with the promotion of the town centre and its facilities.
- Devise a promotional and marketing strategy
- Maintain and promote commercial activity in the town centre
- Explore how adequate provision of public toilets can be achieved
2. An Accessible Town Centre - concerned with walking and cycling, parking and public transport.
- Devise a signage and mapping strategy to promote walking and cycling routes
- Develop street design where pedestrians and vehicles share the roadway
- Create a revised Parking Strategy (to include cycle parking)
- Develop car sharing/pooling with online support
3. A Town Centre that Capitalises on its Natural and Built Heritage - concerns the assets in the town centre (green spaces, buildings, the river) and how they can be preserved, improved and promoted
- Devise a programme for enhancing the riverside; including the Millrow area
- Improve parklands and preserve green spaces
- Establish and promote walking tours
- Enhance the fabric of town centre buildings and street frontages
4. An Inclusive Town Centre that supports Community Cohesion - concerns supporting greater involvement of local people in activities that reflect the needs of all sections of the community
- Clarify options for community management of existing Council property
- Explore how the community could be better organised to deliver agreed actions
- Develop stronger links between different interest groups in Dunblane
- Explore volunteering strategy to encourage more people to actively engage in community life
- Foster stronger links between local schools and community to explore needs of
5. A Town Centre that meets the Future Needs of the Community - concerns looking at how future development is managed
- Explore options for further integration of the dual carriageway area with town centre activity
- Undertake a longer term study for the future development of town centre
Other reports
The Charrette : Full report and outcome summary
The Survey : Full report and summary
Dunblane Town Centre : A spatial overview
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