Historic Environment (Topic Paper - LDP3 Evidence Report)

LDP3 Topic Paper - Historic Environment 🏰⚔️🕯️🏛️⛲⚜️

East Ayrshire Council is preparing its third Local Development Plan, LDP3. The first formal stage of LDP3 will be the production of an Evidence Report.

To inform the Evidence Report for LDP3 we will be publishing a series of topic papers, exploring in detail the evidence we and others hold across the many themes that LDP3 will address. We have now published a Topic Paper on the 'Historic Environment.'

The scope of the topic paper is to consider the historic built environment and landscape of East Ayrshire in relation to land use planning and the implications for the spatial strategy of LDP3.

The Historic Environment topic paper corresponds with National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4) Policy 7, the intent of which is to "protect and enhance historic environment assets and places, and to enable positive change as a catalyst for the regeneration of places".

You can read the Topic Paper in Documents

This Topic Paper is part of a wider suite of papers, which will be released in groups until the Evidence Report is ready. You can read other relevant Topic Papers by clicking Related Projects on this page, or by visiting the main page for Local Development Plan 3.

📝 Submit your comments 📝

We welcome your comments on this topic paper using our survey.

Or you can email the Local Development Plan Team no later than Friday 6 March 2026.

📒 Evidence Report 📒

The information provided in the Evidence Report will support the Council in the process of producing the (proposed) Local Development Plan.

Your submissions and views will be reflected in the final Evidence Report which will be submitted to the Department for Environment and Planning Appeals (DPEA) for Gatecheck later in 2026.