Tell Us About Your Place
We are starting to prepare a new Local Development Plan for East Ayrshire and we want you to get involved!
From March 2025 until February 2026, an online survey ran inviting residents and communities to 'tell us about their place.' Over 300 people completed the survey online and this was supplemented by carrying out in-person surveys at a number of community events around East Ayrshire. We also visited a number of schools to get the thoughts and views of our young people.
We have now closed the survey to allow us to analyse the feedback we have received. However, if you would still like to get involved or give us your views, please get in touch with us at localdevelopmentplans@east-ayrshire.gov.uk or use the 'Ask us a question' function. We will be happy to hear from you!
Other Evidence Report engagement:
Our online tools are just one way for us to collect your views on East Ayrshire's places. There are other opportunities for you to share your thoughts with us:
- In-person engagement events: Council planning staff attended a number of local events over 2025, to gather views which will inform our LDP3 Evidence Report. A list of these events is available to view here. If you would like us to attend any of your community events or meetings, please do get in touch.
- Topic papers: We have published several topic papers on themes such as renewable energy and the historic environment and will be publishing more over the coming months. The topic papers set out the evidence that we will use as background to develop LDP3. We are inviting views and feedback on the evidence presented and whether we have missed anything.
Related Projects:
- Local Place Plans: We are now asking communities to register their interest in preparing a Local Place Plan. Please follow the link to find out more about what LPPs are, and how they can inform our LDP3.
- Play Sufficiency Assessment: We have launched an online survey to learn more about how children and young people play in their local areas, and what people would like to see in the future. This will provide valuable evidence to inform our LDP3.
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Where we'll be this Summer
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Come and see us at:-
Boswell Book Festival, Dumfries House Friday 9th May 2025 Hannahston Woods Nature Day Saturday 17th May 2025 Hurlford Gala Day Sunday 1st June 2025 Multi-cultural festival, Ayrshire College Campus Saturday 21st June 2025 Kilmaurs Gala Day Sunday 29th June 2025 Doonfest, Dalrymple Saturday 5th July 2025 G in the Park, Newmilns Saturday 12th July 2025 Play day at Kay Park, Kilmarnock Wednesday 6th August 2025 
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Invitation to prepare Local Place Plans
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East Ayrshire Council is inviting its communities to prepare Local Place Plans
The Purpose of a Local Place Plan is to express the local community’s aspirations and priorities around the development and use of land.
To lead on producing a Local Place Plan, you must be a community body (or Community Council) and there are criteria which must be met before the plan can be registered. Registered Local Place Plans will be taken into account when Local Development Plan 3 is being produced, giving community views more weight in the planning process.
If you are a community body and you may wish to produce a Local Place Plan, you can submit an expression of interest and find out more about the process (including available support) through the Council's Local Place Plan page on Engagement East Ayrshire.
