Completed Place and Wellbeing Assessments can be seen below. They range from high-level policy at regional level to specific local proposals. Each Place and Wellbeing Assessment ends with the production of a Report recommending how a more place-based approach could be taken.
Alloa Project Town
- Draft Interim Climate Change Strategy (initial assessment)
- Wellbeing Hub Location
- NHS Forth Valley Healthcare Strategy 2016-2021
- Local Development Plan Vision and Strategic Objectives
- Local Outcome Improvement Plan
- Clackmannanshire Council Interim Climate Change Strategy (follow-up assessment)
- Wellbeing Hub and Lochies School site layout and landscaping (follow-up assessment)
Ayr Project Town
- Wallacetown Housing Regeneration
- Sustainable Development and Climate Change Strategy Review
- Local Housing Strategy
- Accessible Ayr
Clydebank Project Town
- Implementation of Clydebank Town Centre Development Framework (Report Summary)
- West Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership Strategic Plan
- Clydebank Health and Care Centre Travel Plan
- Safe Delivery Improvement Group Strategy (Community Planning Partnership)
Dalkeith Project Town
- Single Midlothian Plan
- Dalkeith Regeneration Development Framework
- Central Dalkeith and Woodburn Community Action Plan
- Midlothian Integration Joint Board, Strategic Commissioning Plan
Dunoon Project Town
- Western Seaboard Marine Gateways, Dunoon Waterfront proposal, submitted as part of the UK Levelling Up Fund application
- Active Travel Hub
- Argyll and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership Strategic Plan
- Argyll and Bute Local Policing Plan
- Argyll and Bute Economic Strategy
Fraserburgh Project Town
- Beachfront Masterplan
- Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership Strategic Plan
- Fraserburgh Primary School Merger
- Harbour Masterplan
Rutherglen Project Town
- South Lanarkshire Economic Strategy
- Burnhill Neighbourhood Plan
- South Lanarkshire Local Development Plan 2
- Rutherglen Town Centre Action Plan
As well as working with these seven Project Towns the Programme extended to wider Programme participants who benefited from our bespoke support to embed a place-based approach. We worked together with them on the following Place and Wellbeing Assessments. You can find further information about everyone that we supported here.
- Aberdeenshire Council - Clatt Primary School
- Aberdeenshire Primary School - Foveran and Tipperty School Merger Proposal
- Shetland’s Partnership Plan Place-based Programme of Change Public Sector Projects
If the Shaping Places for Wellbeing place-based approach sounds like something you would like to know more about, please contact Irene Beautyman, Place and Wellbeing Partnership Lead, below. Alternatively, follow us on LinkedIn - Planning and Place-Based Approaches, to keep up to date with the Planning and Place-Based Programmes from within the Improvement Service, and X @place4wellbeing to recap on the Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme’s journey.
Irene Beautyman - Place and Wellbeing Partnership Lead
Phone: 07908 930763
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Planning Skills
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Shaping Places for Wellbeing Place-based Approach
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Place Network
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