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!
We are looking to hear your views on the places in East Ayrshire where you live, work and spend your time. This will help us to understand and evidence the issues that you think should be addressed in the LDP3, and form part of our Evidence Report.
You can share your thoughts using our "How good is your place?" survey, or "Places Interactive Map" - both available on this web page
The survey is based around the Place Standard Tool, which asks participants to rate different aspects of their local area from 1 (worst) to 7 (best). The outputs will then be used to create a profile for each of East Ayrshire's places, showing their particular strengths and opportunities for improvement. Compass diagrams, like the examples below, will be used as a visual aid to show the results for each place.
In it to Win It -
Anyone that completes the survey will have the option to be entere
d into a draw to win a £50 gift card, to be drawn at the end of August.
If you completed the survey prior to June 2025 and told us you would be happy to be contacted via email, we will automatically enter you into the draw. If you are not sure whether you chose this option but would like the chance to win, please email the team at localdevelopmentplans@east-ayrshire.gov.uk
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 will be attending local events over the Summer, to gather views which will inform our LDP3 Evidence Report. A list of these events is available to view here.
- Topic papers: Over the next few months, we will be preparing a range of topic papers on a range of themes, such as biodiversity, town centres, and renewable energy. The topic papers will set out the evidence that we will use as background to develop LDP3. We will invite 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.
