Boghead News
1) Funding has been made available through OnPath (formerly Banks) Kype Muir windfarm to update our local Community Action Plan and create a Local Place Plan. This exercise is being guided and delivered by Community Enterprise (the group who previously delivered our current Community Action Plan) and is scheduled to commence later this month and run through August and September. (See members pages for more information.)
Local Place Plans (LPPs) were introduced by the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019, which contains a new right for communities to produce their own plans as part of the new Scottish planning system. Local Place Plans contain the community's proposals for the development and use of land and provide a new opportunity for communities to feed into the planning system with ideas and proposals. They can help communities communicate their aspirations and ambitions for future change.
2) Planning Application to import inert waste to the old Boghead reservoir and operate an inert waste recycling facility on the site has been rejected b South Lanarkshire Council.