What next for Wanlockhead?
Now is a great opportunity for the village to decide its priorities & create a plan to implement them.
This is the village’s moment to come together and agree a shared future - with funding from Twentyshilling Community Benefit Fund through Wanlockhead Community Council to pay for an experienced impartial facilitator.
During 2025, the village will decide: what is most important for our community? And how do we make it happen?
By later in the year, based on ideas and discussion across the community, with people of all ages, the village will have a plan of action which can be used to:
Influence Dumfries and Galloway Council by the plan being registered as a Local Place Plan.
Guide what the village focuses its own energies on.
Steer how community benefit funding from local windfarms is spent.
Read on to find out how you can shape your plan and your place!
TELL ME MORE
This website has been created by the facilitator, Nick Wright, as a source of information and a way for people to get involved. He will update it as the plan is prepared through 2025.
“The only way that people will trust this process, and the plan that’s produced, is if everything is open and transparent, every step of the way - so everyone can see how their ideas feed into the plan, and how it reflects community priorities”, Nick says. “The plan mustn’t belong to me, or any individual group: it’s got to be everyone’s plan.”
To see what that means in practice, you can find out more about community-led planning and how it has helped other villages on the About page.
HOW CAN I SHAPE THE PLAN?
During 2025, there will be plenty of opportunity for everyone to shape and influence the plan: surveys, drop-in events, school activities and more.
The first step is a community survey delivered to every household in the village - so everybody has the opportunity to say what’s important to them about their community. The results will be published (anonymously of course) for everyone to see, because the responses will start to identify the priorities that your plan should focus on.
You can fill in the paper copy that comes through your letterbox or do it online:
Go on, do it now! The more people who take the survey, the better the plan will be. Your place, your plan.
Once the survey is completed and the results published, Nick will help the village decide how to take forward the priorities that emerge from the survey - in other words, what should go into the plan. That will include drop-in events, community activities, school sessions, one-to-one discussions - whatever is needed.
Then what?
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If you have ideas about how people could get involved, or simply want to find out more, please get in touch with Nick. His contact details are at the bottom of the page.