Guidance and tools
Preparing and submitting Local Place Plans is a community-led process.
Guides
The following organisations have produced guidance on how to help your community prepare a Local Place Plan:
- Scottish Government guide to preparing and submitting Local Place Plans
- Planning Aid Scotland Guide for Community Delivery of Local Place Plans
- Scottish Government and partner organisation guide to Local Place Plans
- SCDC Local Place Plans - A guide for communities
- The Highland Council Local Place Plan guidance and templates
- The Highland Council Further guidance on Local Place Plan area and Community Body area
- The Highland Council's latest Local Place Plan update
- Historic Environment Scotland Talking About Heritage
- CLS, KPC and WHCT guide to Creating a Local Place Plan: By Communities For Communities
Tools
The following tools, toolkits, and information may help your community prepare a Local Place Plan:
Community engagement
- Place Standard Tool
- Place Standard Tool for Climate, Air Quality, and Children and Young People
- Public Health Scotland Place Standard Tool video
- National Standards for Community Engagement
Community Map Scotland
Mapping assistance is available through the Community Map Scotland tool.
Council information and tools
- Guide to consideration of Gaelic in Local Place Plans - Bilingual Version
- The Highland Council Open Map Data portal datasets for use in a mapping tool
- The Highland Council Programme and Corporate Plan
- Housing Land Audit
- Housing Need and Demand Assessment
Other information and tools
- Scottish Government model governing documents and guidance
- Development Trusts Association Scotland Community Ownership Support Service
- Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
- Scotland's official statistics
- Scottish long term flood hazard and risk information
- Tool for Understanding Scottish Places
- Toolkit for Successful Town Centres