Locality Planning

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Be at the heart of planning our community services

Planning community services in your area

We’re launching a new way for communities to work with us and other organisations so that we can plan and deliver better services locally for everyone in East Ayrshire – and you can get involved!

Our new planning and engagement groups will bring more people together to explore how we can all help to improve services so that people’s lives are better through an approach called locality planning.

We’ll be looking at services that involve:

  • Health
  • Social work
  • Wellbeing
  • Community care
  • Housing
  • Education
  • Community justice

To make sure that we are focussing on what matters most to where you live, we use three areas to cover East Ayrshire:

  • Kilmarnock
  • North
  • South

Maps and lists of settlements covered by each area can be found on East Ayrshire Council’s website.


Launch events: get to know locality planning

Our engagement groups are where you can join other members of your community to explore the things that would make big differences to where you live. Our local planning groups made up of key services will use your views and ideas to develop and deliver local action plans. We’ll also think about how communities can help make those happen.

Come along to one of our launch events to find out what locality planning is all about and how to get involved.

Register online

Kilmarnock
Tuesday 27 October
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Cafe Bar, Shortlees Community Centre, Blacksyke Avenue, Kilmarnock, KA1 4SR

Online
Wednesday 28 October
10:30am – 12:00pm
MS Teams

Newmilns
Wednesday 28 October
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Morton Hall, 123 Main Street, Newmilns, KA16 9HB

Cumnock
Thursday 29 October
1:30pm – 3:00pm
Cumnock Town Hall, 62 Glaisnock Street, Cumnock, KA18 1BY

For further information, or if you need support to attend an event, please contact: Kieran.Wardrop@east-ayrshire.gov.uk.


Be at the heart of planning our community services

Planning community services in your area

We’re launching a new way for communities to work with us and other organisations so that we can plan and deliver better services locally for everyone in East Ayrshire – and you can get involved!

Our new planning and engagement groups will bring more people together to explore how we can all help to improve services so that people’s lives are better through an approach called locality planning.

We’ll be looking at services that involve:

  • Health
  • Social work
  • Wellbeing
  • Community care
  • Housing
  • Education
  • Community justice

To make sure that we are focussing on what matters most to where you live, we use three areas to cover East Ayrshire:

  • Kilmarnock
  • North
  • South

Maps and lists of settlements covered by each area can be found on East Ayrshire Council’s website.


Launch events: get to know locality planning

Our engagement groups are where you can join other members of your community to explore the things that would make big differences to where you live. Our local planning groups made up of key services will use your views and ideas to develop and deliver local action plans. We’ll also think about how communities can help make those happen.

Come along to one of our launch events to find out what locality planning is all about and how to get involved.

Register online

Kilmarnock
Tuesday 27 October
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Cafe Bar, Shortlees Community Centre, Blacksyke Avenue, Kilmarnock, KA1 4SR

Online
Wednesday 28 October
10:30am – 12:00pm
MS Teams

Newmilns
Wednesday 28 October
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Morton Hall, 123 Main Street, Newmilns, KA16 9HB

Cumnock
Thursday 29 October
1:30pm – 3:00pm
Cumnock Town Hall, 62 Glaisnock Street, Cumnock, KA18 1BY

For further information, or if you need support to attend an event, please contact: Kieran.Wardrop@east-ayrshire.gov.uk.


  • Please complete this form if you would like to take part in the new locality planning arrangements. 

    These groups will be an opportunity for you to influence service delivery across East Ayrshire Community Planning Partners and Health and Social Care Partnership.


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  • How to get involved

    In East Ayrshire, we're passionate about hearing the views of the people accessing our services. One of the ways in which we do this is by facilitating locality planning engagement opportunities.

    We are relaunching our locality planning arrangements. We will have Locality Planning Groups and Locality Engagement Groups in each of the three areas outlined above.

    • Locality Planning Groups - bring together professionals, community partners, and third sector delivery partners to implement and monitor local priorities
    • Locality Engagement Groups - bring together people from the local community, community based organsiations, and equality groups to express their views on service delivery and offer improvements

    To find out more about these groups, sign up to attend one of the information sessions by completing this form.

    • Tuesday 27th October, 1830-2000 at Cafe Bar, Shortlees Community Centre, Kilmarnock
    • Wednesday 28th October, 1030-1200 Online on Microsoft Teams
    • Wednesday 29th October, 1830-2000 at Morton Hall, Newmilns
    • Thursday 29th October, 1330-1500 at Cumnock Town Hall, Cumnock

    If you're interested in hearing more about locality planning, but cannot attend the sessions, please express your interest by completing this form.

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  • Apologies, these events have been cancelled. If you wish further information please contact Lorna McIlreavy, Partnership Engagement Officer on Lorna.McIlreavy@east-ayrshire.gov.uk or 07826 914 538.

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    Our local conversations are back! We're excited to get back together and explore our locality planning arrangements. We can't wait to see you!

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    We're holding three events in October 2025, one in each locality area across East Ayrshire.

    We’d love to see you at a Local Conversation near you.

    More information

    If you need any assistance to be able to come along to these events, would like to register via the phone or have any questions, please contact Lorna McILreavy, Partnership Engagement Officer on 07826 914638.

    Please also contact Lorna if you would like to display posters or share flyers promoting the events.

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