Local Resilience Plans & Participatory Budgets

Objective 1

Status
In Progress

We have been engaging with four pilot communities to develop their understanding of their locally important heritage assets. We ran workshops, with the help of Glic, to help each community to shape and produce a Local Resilience Plan, which they will soon go on to deliver aspects of to better protect and enhance those assets. The hope is the locally important heritage assets will be more resilient to change and have a greater local standing.

The Inner Forth’s diverse heritage creates a rich fabric of place, purpose and belonging for the area’s communities. The sense of identity that this heritage creates is fundamental to strengthening community connections and wellbeing, which in turn will increase each community's ability to adapt and challenges like extreme weather events, climate and social change.

As part of the new Scottish planning system, introduced by the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019, communities are now offered the opportunity to feed into the planning system by creating Local Place Plans, containing proposals for the development and use of land within their local area.

As a result, there is an opportunity to ensure that heritage is seen as a key asset for communities in the development of local resilience and that they have opportunities to discuss and identify what climate change will mean for their important local heritage. Creating heritage-focused Local Resilience Plans (as a step before a Local Place Plan) will empower communities by involving them in local decision and plan-making processes. In turn, this has the potential to increase both the resilience of their local heritage - and of their own community.

The process of co-developing and delivering heritage-focused Local Resilience Plans, with participatory budgets, is being piloted within the communities of Hawkhill (Clackmannanshire), Fallin (Stirling), Bainsford & Langlees (Falkirk), and Kincardine (Fife). Each community has already been guided through the co-design of their local resilience plan, all of which can be downloaded, below.

Following a participatory budgeting process, Climate FORTH will work with the community groups and other community members to deliver the actions deemed the most popular from these plans. Stay tuned to find out which elements each community chooses to progress.

READ THE LOCAL RESILIENCE PLANS for each community by clicking below:

Bainsford and Langlees
Kincardine
Fallin
Hawkhill

Workshops took place to understand what heritage assets matter most to people from the four pilot communities

Fallin, Hawkhill, Bainsford & Langlees and Kincardine are our four pilot communities for this activity

Local people attended workshops to contribute ideas to their Local Resilience Plan

Project Location

Funded by

This project is part-funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund via Fife Council, Stirling Council, Falkirk Council and Clackmannanshire Council, plus crowdfunding from participating communities.

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