Town Infrastructure -Local level

Scottish Executive policy to ensure local community involvement in planning decisions is clear and unambiguous. However the present centralised ABC system of “community planning” goes against this as it does not always include local involvement. This needs to change and have issues of community planning and social inclusion devolved to the genuinely local community level, or to intermediate administrative levels (e.g. the four Administrative Areas in H&L).

INITIATIVES

• COMMUNITY PLANNING. Based on the Scottish Executive suggestion a Local Planning Forum for Helensburgh Involvement should be established to guarantee a system of community planning in which key decisions are determined at community level, not at Council level. E.G. the Social Inclusion Partnership should be well involved in discussions about the Helensburgh housing estates.
• COLGRAIN. With the demise of Colgrain Community Council, it should be included in Helensburgh Community Council.
  

N.B. In the document, Initiatives that can be achieved fairly quickly are marked “-qw” (quickwin)

"To turn the vision into reality is a very big job, but it is well worth doing. We need to stop the neglect of Helensburgh, turn it around and put it on the road to excellence."

The Helensburgh Vision Steering Group