Our online community consultation has now closed. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to provide us with your thoughts, comments, and proposals for the future of Nairn. We received 87 online responses, with postal replies to be counted.

This marks the close of our data gathering community consultation. You may recall this process started away back in June 2023 with our initial community survey as the Local Place Plan kicked off, and has culminated in our community consultation in April 2024.

We are now in digest mode, analysing all of the responses, comments, and proposals, to build what will be a major milestone for the community and communities of Nairn and Nairnshire, helping us all to shape the future of our home.

A quick summary of your engagement so far, with at least:

• 454 replies to our community survey
• 64 directly submitted comments to our website
• 181 local people attending our community consultation roadshow
• 690 individual comments left at our community roadshow
• 2 detailed proposal emails received representing both an individual and a major community group
• 21 open Thursdays hosted at the Nairn Community & Arts Centre
• 87 detailed responses to our online community survey

This is a massive range of leadership from the community and will allow the creation of a truly community led Local Place Plan that will help to guide and steer future development throughout Nairn and Nairnshire for the 10 year life of the plan, setting the building blocks for the future of Nairn and Nairnshire.

The current phase of the Nairn and Nairnshire Local Place Plan preparation is counting down the days until we close the online community consultation on the 14th April 2024.

Through the summer of 2023, more than 450 responses were made to the formative Nairn and Nairnshire questionnaire. In January, we met with 39 of you for an in-depth discussion on what the future land use of Nairn and Nairnshire might be. Throughout March, we took the community consultation on the road, where we received more than 1,000 comments and suggestions for the future use of land, community actions, projects and much more throughout Nairn and Nairnshire.

If you haven’t taken your chance to have your say yet, there is still time…the online community consultation closes at the end of the 14th April. This means that, on the 15th April, we will be downloading all of your comments, suggestions, and visions for the future land use of Nairn and Nairnshire, and how you think we can best use our assets for the future of Nairn and Nairnshire.

Whatever your thoughts and opinions for the future land use and development of Nairn and Nairnshire, we want to hear them. Without them, the local place plan may not reflect how you see the future of Nairn and Nairnshire. Get involved…