Local Community Plan
Local community plans aim to improve the quality of life for people living in local communities, by developing programmes of activities and initiatives which develop and deliver better services. The City Centre Plan has been drawn up following extensive consultation with city centre residents, workers, students, and visitors who have identified what their main issues and priorities are. When developing this plan the partners have recognised the need to help progress the Scottish Government national priorities and Edinburgh wide plans and strategies. However, the plan provides the opportunity to make sense of these and tailor them so that they are more appropriate to the city centre's priorities and needs.
The priorities contained within the plan arose from a number of consultation events including our open day at the Assembly Rooms on 22nd May and two further satellite events at the Central Library on George IV Bridge. In addition, we received valuable input from the residents of the Croft an Righ sheltered housing complex at Abbeymount. Stakeholder surveys such as the Services for Communities customer research exercise and the Business Improvement District consultation survey also fed into our plan.
The city centre priorities that have been highlighted are:
- A clean city centre
- Supporting local retail areas
- Enhance the city centre streetscape
- Protect and safeguard the neighbourhood
- A living city centre
These will all be best achieved through joint working with a range of our partners.
Click on the link below to view the Community Plan for our city centre:
The City Centre Neighbourhood Partnership Community Plan 2008-2011
For more information on any of this, please contact Alan Dean on 0131 529 7519 or alan.dean@edinburgh.gov.uk
