Have your say about Dunblane!

Dunblane is a great place to live, work and visit. With its, local economy, river,
parks and woodland walks, local/national transport links, rich history, Cathedral,
Leighton Library and museum it’s just an amazing place for people to come
together.  We want to work together with you to build on all of that, making
Dunblane an even better place for the future.

The Scottish Government has introduced a new Planning Policy Framework
called NPF4. This new policy allows for Local Place Plans to be put together by
local communities. These Plans are supposed to be taken account of by Councils
as they prepare the next Local Development Plan which will run until 2036. Plans
must be submitted to Stirling Council by early 2025 at the latest, we would like to
submit our Plan before Christmas this year if possible.

We are running a survey during the month of June. The survey is a simple 8
questions and should only take a few minutes to complete. Paper copies of the
survey can be picked up and dropped off at Dunblane Library.
This survey is our initial attempt to gather your views. We will look at the results
and then decide if further short surveys are required to get more detail, we may
do workshops also on specific topics.

Currently we do not have any funding to help us with this project, the Scottish
Government did not allocate funding, Stirling Council does not have funding. We
are hoping to get some funding via the FVL CLLD fund, we will let you know if we
are successful.

We are using SurveyMonkey to collect responses, all data is confidential with no
personal information being requested. We ask for Post Code in the survey, but
this is optional.

It is really important that we get a good response rate, there are 10,000 of
us living here in Dunblane, we really need to get at least 1500 responses,
more would be much better. Please spread the word to your friends and
family in Dunblane. Stirling Council will take more notice of surveys with
good response rates. Over to you!

All information gathered will be confidential and responses recorded on Survey Monkey. 

Take the Survey!

Paper copies of the survey can be picked up and dropped off at Dunblane Library. Thank you for your help. 

Below are some links to NPF4 and Local Place Plans:

national-planning-framework-4.pdf (www.gov.scot)
National Planning Framework 4 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
Information on Local place plans | Stirling Council

Here's our poster on the issue of Travel for example...

This meeting of Dunblane Community Council will be held in Dunblane Library
The meeting is open to members of the public and will be accessible via Zoom.
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https://dunblane.info/dcc

The 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships brought around £4.5 million of economic benefits to the Stirling area, as well as sporting, social and cultural gains.

Data from event organisers found the economic benefits were more than 10 times the  budget of £350,000 committed by Stirling Council to the event, the Finance, Economy and Corporate Support Committee was told on Thursday, 11 April 2024.

Event organisers initially advised Stirling Council to expect an additional 20,000-25,000 visitors to the city for the Individual Time Trials over three days from 9-11 August 2023.

However, three times as many visitors – 74,935 people – were recorded in Stirling than the week before (192,000 against 117,000), with the city welcoming almost 80,000 people on the final day, Friday 11 August, alone.

The latest figures come after a report from Ernst and Young found the overall event, which saw 13 world championships contested across seven events, realised a total spend across Scotland of £220 million.

It was hailed as the biggest cycling event ever and data for Stirling also found:

• The UCI athlete family stayed for more than 1,000 bed nights in Stirling at an average cost of £106 per night, with a daily spend on non-accommodation recorded at £52.60 each day

• More than 2,000 hours of action from the Individual Time Trials was broadcast worldwide, showcasing Stirling to a global audience of almost 50 million

• Including the road races – three of which passed through the local area – Stirling featured in almost 5,000 hours of broadcast and a cumulative television audience of almost 140 million

• Stirling-focused content on the Cycling World Championships’ social media channels had a global reach of 70.9 million

As part of a legacy building project, there were a range of community programmes launched before, during and after the UCI Cycling World Championships involving communities in areas such as Killin, the Trossachs, Raploch, Bannockburn, Cowie, Fallin and Throsk.

Councillors also heard a summer cycling and outdoor adventure campaign will be launched by the Council this summer to take advantage of the feelgood factor from the event and promote cycling tourism, worth £300 million to the Scottish economy, in the Stirling area.

PC Paul Gilliland has announced his retirement as community police officer for Dunblane
and Bridge of Allan on 18 April 2024. Dunblane Community Council wishes to thank Paul for
the huge contribution he has made to community policing in the Dunblane area and we wish
him the best in his well-deserved retirement.