Crieff Community Action Plan 2027 – 2031 and Local Place Place
Crieff Community Trust and Crieff Community Council are working together, with local organisations and community groups, to shape Crieff’s next Community Action Plan and Local Place Plan. The process is being supported by Community Enterprise Ltd, specialists in community action planning and local place planning.
This is a plan for Crieff, by Crieff and we want to hear what matters most to you.
What do you value about Crieff? What needs to change? What would make Crieff a better place to visit, to live, to work, grow up and grow old in, over the next ten years?
Please Help and Get Involved
YOUR CRIEFF YOUR CHOICE
The Your Crieff Your Voice team spent the Summer conducting extensive community engagement across Crieff with people sharing their views through the community survey, Have Your Say Day, focus groups, stakeholder interviews, schools and other activities across the town. The response has been amazing and it has been fantastic to see how much people care about Crieff and its future.
The team are now moving on to the next stage of the Community Action Plan and Local Place Plan process – Your Crieff, Your Choice.
All the ideas and feedback gathered over the summer are being brought together into potential projects across six themes. These will be presented back to the community at the end of October/early November and everyone is being asked to help decide which should be the highest priorities for Crieff. The six themes are:
🏘️ A Thriving and Welcoming Town Centre
💼 A Dynamic and Enterprising Community
👨👩👧 A Great Place to Grow Up
💛 A Healthy, Caring and Connected Community
🌳 A Greener Crieff, Connected to Nature
🏡 A Connected Place to Call Home
Two open drop in community events will be held at Strathearn Community Campus:
Saturday 31st October | 10am–1pm
Tuesday 3rd November | 6pm–9pm
During these events, you will be able to look at and discuss the proposed projects, identify those you think would bring the greatest benefit to Crieff and highlight anything important you feel is missing. For ideas involving land, buildings or physical infrastructure, there will also be large maps where you can suggest where you think they should happen.
Both events are completely drop-in, so there is no need to book or stay for the full three hours. Simply come along at a time that suits you and spend as much time as you wish.
What has happened already?
- Crieff’s Have Your Say Day was help on Saturday 12th September 2026. This was the community’s chance to share their ideas, hear other people’s points of view, meet new people and help shape the next Community Action Plan and Local Place Plan for Crieff.
- The Community Survey was available for everyone to complete. 943 responses were received including 840 from the online survey and 103 from local primary schools. The survey took about 15 minutes to complete but every minute was worth as it gave us your views that will help guide future decisions, projects and priorities for Crieff.
- Volunteers have offered to help – we have heard from several people offering to help with the Community Action Plan and Local Place Plan process. More volunteers will be needed to take the final projects forward that are identified. If you are interested in getting involved, whether you can spare a couple of hours or would like to take on a more active role, we would always be delighted to hear from you. No previous experience is required. Community Enterprise Ltd will provide training, guidance and support. Register your interest here and a member of the team will get in touch.
- The “Creative Competition” took place during the Crieff Arts Festival. The winners have been announced and were awarded £50 of vouchers (to be spent in the town). Details of the competition can be seen here.
Every contribution, no matter how much time you can offer, will help ensure that as many voices as possible are heard and represented in shaping Crieff’s future.
What is a Community Action Plan?
A Community Action plan is created with local residents. It sets out:
- What matters most to the community
- What needs to improve
- What actions partners and the community will take together
A Community Action Plan is based on
- Local data about the area
- Feedback from residents
- Knowledge from local organisations
A Community Action Plan helps communities:
- Agree shared priorities
- Plan improvements
- Strengthen funding bids
- Work more closely with local partners
What is a Local Place Plan?
A Local Place Plan offers communities the chance to shape their local area.
They are community-led plans that focus on the existing and future use of land and set out proposals for potential developments in the community.
A Local Place Plan might consider:
- improvements in town and local centres
- local initiatives to promote active travel or community food-growing
- conservation of the natural and built environments
- sites or areas of land which could help tackle climate-change (such as renewable energy, flood mitigation, or tree planting)
- sites for housing development (including affordable housing and housing for particular needs or groups), local employment, or new tourism and community facilities
- retaining, improving, and expanding open space, green and blue infrastructure (such as footpaths, water networks, and drainage or flooding measures), and play facilities.
Once completed and registered by the planning authority, Local Place Plans will be considered when we are preparing a new Local Development Plan.
Crieff Community Action Plan 2021-2026
The 2021 – 2026 Crieff Community Action Plan was a renewal of the 2013-2018 plan and work continued over the 5 years towards achieving the identified priorities and actions. The updated plan embraced new priorities and actions as identified by the community for development during the exhaustive consultation process that took place between November 2020 and March 2021.
The Community Action Plan was facilitated and led by a Steering Group which brought together representatives of Crieff Community Trust, Crieff Community Council, Crieff Connexions, Crieff Community Garden, Logos Youth Project, Creative Crieff, Strathearn Arts, Crieff Succeeds, Remake Scotland, Crieff & Strathearn Museum, Live Active Leisure, local Councillors and representatives of Perth & Kinross Council.
Here’s a short film about the creation of community action plans in rural Perthshire, in which our plan features.