Place Plans
Place Plans are a mechanism introduced by Welsh Government for communities to engage creatively with the planning process and for planners to support in place-making initiatives with local people.
Place Plans can provide an opportunity to offer a finer grain of planning policy detail (thematic or site specific guidance) for local areas that should reflect local distinctiveness and address local, specific community scale issues.
Place Plans are to cover a community area or a cluster of community areas and the expectation is that their preparation should ideally, although not exclusively, be led by Town and Community Councils or via them if they choose to set up a Place Plan Steering Group ideally with key local people other than just Councillors. An independent local group may also take the initiative of starting a Place Plan but it would be useful to have at least one Councillor involved.
The draft Place Plans for areas with Town Councils are now available to view, namely Aberaeron, Aberystwyth, Cardigan, Lampeter, Llandysul, New Quay and Tregaron, and in this instance they have been prepared by the Town Councils - please see the document links on the right of the page. If you would like to learn more, please get in touch with the relevant Town Council.