Local Place Plans

To help your community understand the various steps required in preparing a Local Place Plan, we have produced some guidance documents.

These toolkits and templates will be kept up to date as we learn more from those communities preparing Local Place Plans. 

Localised data profiles have been prepared as part of the work to support development of an updated Local Outcome Improvement Plan for Dumfries and Galloway. They provide data profiles for Dumfries and Galloway Community Planning Partnership areas. 

Support to develop a plan

If you are unsure whether your group qualifies as a community-controlled body, you can discuss it with your Local Place Team, after you submit an expression of interest form.

Expressions of interest

Download and complete expression of interest form to find out more about LLPs.

Submit an expression of interest for a Local Place Plan

After we receive your form, someone will arrange a suitable time for your group to speak to someone about Local Place Plans.

If your community wants the council to consider your Local Place Plan when making Local Development Plan 3, the deadline to show interest has already passed. To give the council enough time to include Local Place Plans, they need to be registered or ready to be registered by July 2025.

If that is not important to your local community, there is no deadline for expressing an interest or completing your Local Place Plan.  

Local Place teams

You and your community group can ask for support, advice and guidance from our Local Place teams. These teams consist of:

• planning officers
• ward officers
• place officers

The teams are based in:

• Annandale and Eskdale
• Nithsdale
• Stewartry
• Wigtownshire