Angus Community Planning
Local Community Planning
What is local community planning?
- Working with communities at a local level to provide better services and improve people's quality of life
- Local residents coming together in identifying what they want for their community and the changes they would like to see happen within their neighbourhood
Community planning is about organisations and communities working together to make Angus a better place to live. There are people and partnerships working in each of the Angus burghs to help bring local organisations together in order to influence the way services are delivered.
What does this mean for you?
Community involvement is essential for the delivery of local community planning and provides communities with the opportunity to have their say. Communites can:
- Influence decisions regarding issues that affect them and how services are delivered locally
- Work towards achieving something they really want for their area
- Create good relationships with other members of the community
Bill Strachan - Senior Service Manager, Neighbourhood Services,
Déirdre Mitchell - Tenant and Community Participation Co-ordinator,
Debbie Gowans, Community Regeneration Officer
Local Community Planning Teams
Community planning also operates at a local ward area level.
There is a local community planning team based at William Wallace House, Forfar, consisting of a Senior Service Manager, a Tenant and Community Participation Co-ordinator and a Community Regeneration Officer.
There are also four local community planning teams based in Arbroath, Brechin, Carnoustie and Kirriemuir who support local community planning across Angus:
Siobhan Fagan - Community Planning Officer
Janet Russell - Assistant Community Regeneration Officer
Mhari Dickson - Community Learning and Development Officer
Beverley Gibb - Community Planning Officer
Mark Johnston - Community Learning and Development Officer
Elaine McLeod - Community Planning Officer
Nicky Lowden-MacCrimmon - Community Planning Officer
Liz Begg - Community Learning and Development Officer
Claire Warrender - Community Planning Engagement Assistant
Lee Haxton - Community Planning Officer
Graeme Hodge - Community Learning and Development Officer
Barbara Reid - Community Planning Engagement Assistant
Local Community Planning Teams Functions
Help communities to:
- Influence local service delivery
- Define and achieve their priorities and aspirations
- Manage projects
- Engage with the wider ward community
The Role of Community Councils and Local Area Partnerships in Community Planning
The council recognizes the valuable contribution that community councils and local area partnerships have made, and continue to make, to the development of Angus and has set out in a Policy Statement on the Role of Community Councils and Local Area Partnerships in Local Community Planning (40 KB PDF).
Newsletter
- Engage - Local Community Planning Newsletter