Following our public consultations, including our Road Show and Online Consultation, key themes have emerged, including:
- Business and Jobs
- Getting Around
- Town & Village Centres
- Geen Space & Leisure
- Sustainable Futures
Join your Nairn and Nairnshire Local Place Plan community group discussion on Business and Jobs on Thursday 16th May, from 6pm – 9pm in the Nairn Community & Arts Centre Small Hall to discuss the Key Ideas emerging, and what can the Local Place Plan do within a workshop environment.
Key ideas may include:
- Connecting sites to infrastructure that ensures sustainable locations
- Renewables and regenerative approaches – how can sites be used for renewable energy, district heating. Solar farm, run of river hydro, tidal, wind.
- Homes – design guides, provision of the right types in the right locations (i.e. provision for people downsizing, for first home buyers etc)
- Flooding – defenses where needed, adaptation where possible, no building where risk
- Balanced population – attracting people to Nairn to fill caring roles as population ages
Open spaces are strictly limited to 30 open attendances. There will be key invitiees, including some local leading figures, Highland Council officers, Planning Aid Scotland team, and the Local Place Plan team attending. Please book your place to avoid disappointment.