Renfrewshire Council

What Local Place Plans are

Local Place Plans offer communities the chance to shape their local area.

These 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.

Communities can prepare Local Place Plans at any time but must submit their plan by 31 March 2026 if you would like it to be considered in the preparation of Renfrewshire's new Local Development Plan.

Who can submit a Local Place Plan

Community councils and some other community bodies, such as a Development Trust, can create Local Place Plans.

You could create one for a local area, such as a community council area, town, or even a neighbourhood within a town.

If you're not sure if your group qualifies as a community body, contact localplanconsultation@renfrewshire.gov.uk for more information.

What funding you could get

We provided a Local Place Plan fund of £100,000 to support communities to prepare and develop a plan for their area.

The expression of interest stage for groups interested in applying for the Local Place Plan funding is now closed.

Eligible groups that submitted a valid expression of interest will be invited to submit a full application for Local Place Plan funding.

The fund can cover costs including:

• research
• community consultation
• professional services, such as planning consultants or graphical support
• website or document production
• venue hire.

If you receive funding, your funded Local Place Plan needs to be submitted by 31 March 2026.

How to prepare a Local Place Plan

We've prepared a how-to guide for creating your Local Place Plan [13MB] . 

It explains what your group needs to include in your Local Place Plan and how to prepare your plan.

The guide is based on early plans developed with communities across Renfrewshire, including the neighbourhoods of Foxbar and Ferguslie Park in Paisley.

You can still prepare a Local Place Plan even if you did not apply to the Local Place Plan fund.

Once you have submitted your Local Place Plan, we will check to make sure that the correct procedures have been followed.

If so, the plan will be reported to the council's Planning and Climate Change Policy Board with the recommendation that it should be added to the Local Place Plan register.

More information

If you'd like more information on Local Place Plans, email us at localplanconsultation@renfrewshire.gov.uk.

We can answer your questions and support you through the Local Place Plan process.

We can also provide additional resources to help you create your Local Place Plan, including previous examples of Local Place Plans in Renfrewshire.

Have your say on our Local Development Plan

By creating a Local Place Plan, you can share your ideas and shape the future of your local area.

If your Local Place Plan is registered by 31 March 2026, we'll also consider it when preparing Renfrewshire's next Local Development Plan.

Our Local Development Plan will set out the long-term vision of where development should happen in Renfrewshire.

We want to hear from local communities and stakeholders in the area, and Local Place Plans are one way to do this.

You can see more information and ways to have your say on our Local Development Plan page.