Town Centre Strategies and Green Infrastructure/ Network Guidance Consultation

This consultation is now closed as of 26 February 2018

Background

The Council is inviting comments on planning guidance documents to support the adopted Local Development Plan:

• Town Centre Strategies for Bearsden, Bishopbriggs and Milngavie - providing a long-term vision for each centre, and setting out a series of proposed actions for future improvements
• Green Infrastructure and Green Network Guidance - identifying the green network and its benefits to the quality of life of residents, workers and visitors. It also sets out what the functions of the green network and green infrastructure are and how development should protect and enhance it

These draft documents were approved at the Place, Neighbourhood and Corporate Assets Committee on 2 November 2017.  Any comments received will be taken into account in finalising each document before it is adopted.

The Green Infrastructure and Green Network Supplementary Guidance has links to the East Dunbartonshire Green Network Strategy approved last year.  The consultation also provides an opportunity for the public to share initial views on landscape-scale green network projects in or around the Campsie Fells, Forth and Clyde Canal, Glazert Water, Mugdock Country Park and River Kelvin. Further information on these areas is available in Section 5 of the Green Network Strategy Story Map.  

How to Respond

The consultation period runs from Monday 15 January to Monday 26 February 2018. You can comment in a number of ways:

• By completing an online comments form - see links below. 

• Emailing your completed form(s) to development.plan@eastdunbarton.gov.uk

• Posting your completed form(s) to: Land Planning Policy Team, East Dunbartonshire Council, Southbank House, Strathkelvin Place, Kirkintilloch, G66 1XQ

Town Centre Strategies - comments form
Green Infrastructure/Network - comments form

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Drop-In Sessions

All documents are available to view at the Council's Community Hubs and libraries.

Location	Date	Time
Bishopbriggs Leisuredrome	15 January 2018	4pm to 7pm
Tesco, Milngavie	16 January 2018	4pm to 7pm
Asda, Bearsden	18 January 2018	4pm to 7pm
Bishopbriggs Community Hub (Memorial Hall)	22 January 2018	1pm to 4pm
Bearsden Community Hub	24 January 2018	11am to 2pm
Morrisons, Bishopbriggs	25 January 2018	4pm to 7pm
Allander Leisure Centre	1 February 2018	4pm to 7pm
Milngavie Library	5 February 2018	1pm to 4pm
Asda, Bearsden	5 February 2018	4pm to 7pm
Bearsden Community Hub *Additional Session	19 February 2018	4pm to 6pm
Bishopbriggs Memorial Hall *Additional Session	20 February 2018	4pm to 6pm
Milngavie Town Hall *Additional Session	21 February 2018	4pm to 6pm

 

For Green Network and Green Infrastructure Supplementary Guidance only:
Twechar Healthy Living and Enterprise Centre	23 January 2018	11am to 2pm
Lennoxtown Community Hub	30 January 2018	10am to 1pm
Kirkintilloch Community Hub	31 January 2018	Noon to 3pm
Kirkintilloch Leisure Centre	6 February 2018	4pm to 7pm

 

For further advice on submitting comment(s), please:

• E-mail: development.plan@eastdunbarton.gov.uk
• Telephone: the Land Planning Policy Team on 0300 123 4510 or
• Write to Land Planning Policy Team, East Dunbartonshire Council, Southbank House, Strathkelvin Place, Kirkintilloch, G66 1XQ.

Post Consultation Arrangements

Following consultation, the Council will consider whether to make modifications to take account of comments received. In addition, for the Supplementary Guidance on Green Infrastructure and Green Network, the Council will notify Scottish Ministers of the publicity measures undertaken, comments received and an explanation of how these comments were taken into account.

Comments received on green network projects will be used in developing action plans for the five landscape-scale project areas identified in the Green Network Strategy.