Done

[smokingboot]

Well, that's the Local Place Plan approved and registered. Done.

Of course nothing is ever really done. Bits and pieces remain; now that it has been approved, there should be a physical record in the library as well as the online version, we need to ensure that people know about it and understand it as a resource they can use in their dealings with local government, the annual review is something much touted but I have no idea how to create that mechanism.

Still it's in place, formally accepted and registered and therefore having as the government puts it "a statutory role in shaping the planning process. They (Local Place Plans) will require to be taken account of by the council when it is preparing the next LDP (Local Development Plan) and the council will have to demonstrate how LPPs have influenced the process.” We shall see.

R and I calculated that if the same team of people had been brought in for the same amount of time professionally, the cost would easily have passed quarter of a million pounds. I would wonder how many communities in Scotland are being properly represented. We've been very fortunate but one can only expect so much from volunteers.

But it is done, and everything else can wait for tomorrow.