Local Place Plan
We have submitted a Local Place Plan for Midmar Paddock following our consultation earlier this year.
What is a Local Place Plan?
Local Place Plans are a new type of community-based plan which the City of Edinburgh Council is required to take into account in preparing the next city plan.
Midmar Paddock is designated in the recently adopted Edinburgh City Plan 2030 as Green Belt, a Local Nature Conservation Site, a Special Landscape Area and as Open Space.
The city planners have now started work on the Edinburgh City Plan 2040 and we want to see that the designations of Midmar Paddock in the Edinburgh City Plan 2030 are retained in the Edinburgh City Plan 2040. By preparing a Local Place Plan, we can say how we want Midmar Paddock to be in the future. Midmar Paddock is private land always at risk of development! The Friends of Midmar Paddock are required to prove support for the draft Local Place Plan to the city council by public consultation.
Local Place Plans (LPPs) were introduced by the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019. The purpose of a LPP is for the community to put forward a proposal for the development or use of land. The planning authority, in our case the City of Edinburgh Council, must take account of the plan in its local development plan.
You can find out more here:
City of Edinburgh Council Local Place Plans