, & Fisherford Community Action Plan 2015 Map of Auchterless, Inverkeithny & Fisherford Auchterless CAP Community Council Area

2 Introduction & Background Auchterless CAP

1. BACKGROUND There are frequent small settlements 1.1 Location and regional route-ways following these Auchterless, Inverkeithny and Fisherford valleys. Community Council Area is located • Upland Ridges South of the Deveron at the north-westernmost fringe of This is a sub area of the Agricultural . It is bordered by three Heartland Landscape Type, which covers of the current administrative areas of half of . It comprises Aberdeenshire: Banff and , broad, rounded hilltops of similar height and . There is even a short with convex slopes. Despite the altitude, section which abuts directly onto Moray. it is heavily agricultural with large fields, Auchterless in its deep valley It was a borderland in earlier times, few field boundaries and sparse tree- too, abutting onto while cover. There are no settlements, just Inverkeithny itself was in that county. scattered farms and steadings nestled against the hill slopes. 1.2 Population & Settlements The whole area is sparsely populated 1.4 Historical Development with a current population of 1186 in Antiquities the two parishes. The few settlements There are a large number of antiquities of are small, the three main ones being various types. Amongst those of note are: Kirkton of Auchterless, Fisherford and • Recumbent Stone Circles at Cairn Riv, Inverkeithny. Corrydown, Mains of Hatton, Pitglassie.

1.3 Topography • Other Stone Circles at Greymuir The area is a cultivated upland lying Cairn, Hare Stanes, Rapplebaum, Upper Auchterless Parish Church between 180m and 200m above sea Third, West Haughs. level but rising to 259m at Kirkhill, the • Roman Marching Camps. At Ythan highest point in the area. It is largely Wells are two superimposed marching drained by two rivers. The River Ythan camps, both believed to be Agricolan flows in its valley through Auchterless and related to the AD 83 campaign Parish in a north-easterly direction then when it is claimed the Roman army briefly leaves, before turning abruptly defeated the Caledonii at Mons Graupius. southwards to form the area’s eastern boundary. Here its altitude is just below Later History 50m. The forms the The descriptions of Auchterless parish in northern boundary. Its altitude is just the two Statistical Accounts of Scotland, below 40m. Kirkton of Auchterless is the Old (OSA 1793) and New (NSA 88m above sea-level, Fisherford 154m, 1840) give very clear accounts of the and Inverkeithny 53m. life and appearance of the parish and of the changes over the intervening period The Aberdeenshire Local Development which formed the present character Plan 2012 identifies two Landscape of the parish, and of the Agricultural Character Areas:- Heartland of Aberdeenshire. • Deveron and Upper Ythan valleys An area of shallow attractive valleys Both mention the area’s prehistory, occupied by winding rivers and commenting on the numerous cairns and bounded by broad rolling hill sides, ‘druidical’ stone circles whose stones clothed with mixed deciduous and may have been spared by superstition. Fisherford village entrance coniferous policy woodlands, integrated Also, both give detailed descriptions of with well-maintained agricultural land. the Roman marching camp at Ythan Wells, Cover Photo: River Deveron near Inverkeithny 3 Introduction & Background Auchterless CAP

the OSA calling it Castra Agricola following 1360 in 1774 to scarcely 1200 in 1793. Major-General Roy. On one estate several extensive farms and crofts became waste and on several Both describe the land as consisting of other estates farms were amalgamated. light and gravelly soils intermixed with clay which are “early and productive”. The changes continue apace in the NSA. The main crops in the OSA are oats Many farmers now have substantial and barley and much meal is exported. houses of two storeys high with neat Sheep and cattle are reared so there is and commodious steadings. Almost every Auchterless village entrance with Parish Church extensive pasture and hay. Potatoes are farm of 50-60 acres has a water driven grown in great abundance. threshing mill. The general character of the husbandry in this parish also is The agricultural improvements have excellent. Numbers of cattle of the far- already started as early as the OSA for famed Aberdeenshire stock have greatly large quantities of turnips are sown increased to upwards of 2000. The quality and used for feeding young cattle in and numbers of horses, too, have also winter and spring, “which helps them increased to 300-400 and Cheviot Black- put on a good weight”. Clover, too, is face sheep number 600-700, mentioned. The OSA highlights a key change, the introduction on some estates There has been an increase in population of extended leases from 19 years to a too. One of the changes is an increase lifetime plus 19 years, thus enabling the in subtenants or crofters who are useful tenants themselves to benefit from the to farmers as labourers at busy times. improved yield resulting from improving Thus Kirktown has 10 dwellings and 38 the land. This is indicated by the large crofters. It is smaller than Gordonstown, amounts of English shell lime being which is a long straggling village of imported via the ports at Banff and 35 dwellings and a population of 100 Macduff. Sheep numbers at 1600 are crofters. Transport has improved too decreasing but they are now bigger and with the opening of the -Banff give better quality wool. Black cattle turnpike in 1804, which follows the numbers have increased to 1500 and are eastern boundary of the parish. exported south after three years to be fattened for market. Another indication The NSA states that “Few parishes in the Auchterless Old Parish Church of improvement is that horses have country are at the present moment in a increased to 200 and are replacing oxen higher state of cultivation” and summarises for both ploughing and transport. Indeed, the changes thus: there were only 14 oxen ploughs left. The most striking variations betwixt the present state of the parish, and that which existed at the time of Horses are more expensive but more the last Statistical Account, are to be found in the efficient. There are seven corn mills improved mode of laying out and enclosing the fields; and three brand new threshing mills. in the great increase of turnip husbandry and the There are no stone quarries and field consequent fattening of a number of cattle for the home and London markets; in a stricter attention to boundaries are earthen mounds or the rotation of crops; and in the general superiority of ditches sometimes planted with thorn. the various cross-roads, thereby affording increased facilities for agricultural improvements. However life was still precarious and there was a widespread famine in 1782-83: Modern Times “By the famine in 1782 and 1783, the inferior ranks Population continued to increase were reduced to the greatest extremity of want and until 1871. Since then the population many would have perished without extraordinary assistance, which was cheerfully afforded. Happy for has decreased as more powerful and this country, providence brought about a peace; so that sophisticated agricultural machinery has the pease which were laid up for the navy, were sold reduced the employment on farms and, off, which was the saving of the North of Scotland. By unlike parishes nearer Aberdeen, large- large purchases of these and English barley . . . the lives of the parishioners were preserved.” scale commuting has not affected the area.

The OSA for Udny, attributes its cause to Inverkeithny Parish extremely poor harvests resulting from Inverkeithny Parish follows a similar extreme and unusual weather. pattern to Auchterless in its history, Fisherford: Tillymorgan Church population and agriculture. The NSA One of its resultant effects in Auchterless summarises its agriculture as “Conducted was that the population declined from on most approved principles, skilfully applied.”

4 Local Development Plan Auchterless CAP

2. ABERDEENSHIRE 2.1 Designated Settlement Statements (LDP 2016) LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS 2012 AND 2016 KIRKTON OF AUCHTERLESS A Local Development Plan (LDP) is map-based and concisely links Council Planning policies and proposals to locations. They are regularly updated. The current one was approved in 2012 and its replacement, due to apply from sometime in 2016, is well advanced. It was approved as the settled view of the Council in March 2015 and has gone through a period for formal representation. Unresolved issues arising from the representations are currently with Scottish Ministers for public examination which is likely to conclude by August 2016, after which the Plan can be agreed and adopted.

Both 2012 and 2016 LDPs follow the Aberdeen City and Shire Strategic Development Plan, in identifying two broad policy areas: Kirkton of Auchterless is an attractive village set within rolling arable farmland. The village is • Strategic Growth Areas which follow the characterised by its historical assets, with the prominent listed church and churchyard forming main transport routes out of Aberdeen: the main feature of the village. The long views of the church from the southern approach are key A90 north to , A96 to to the settlements sense of place. The settlement also has a primary school and public transport and A90 south to ; and links. The planning objective is to preserve the amenity of the village and to sustain the school roll • Local growth and diversification areas through the rural development policy within shaping development in the countryside. where growth will be matched to Protected Land local needs. This designation is further P1 To conserve the setting of the church divided into a more accessible or P2 To conserve the school playing fields and facilities as an amenity for the village. pressured area adjacent to the city and a less accessible area further out. FISHERFORD Because of different development pressures in the two areas, local needs are viewed as requiring more restrictive or more encouraging planning policies respectively. In the latter area, many settlements are designated for small- scale organic growth to meet the area’s needs, by sustaining the community’s school roll or local employment.

Auchterless is located in the less accessible area and both Kirkton of Auchterless and Fisherford are designated settlements for small-scale organic growth. Inverkeithny is not.

In addition to settlements, both LDPs permit development in the countryside if it is for refurbishment or replacement of an existing or disused building; if it is on a Fisherford is a small village that for its size provides key community services, including a school, site which has been developed previously public house and a camping site. The planning objectives are to preserve the amenity of the village and is now redundant; or if it is a dwelling and to sustain the school roll through the rural development policy within “Shaping development house associated with the retirement in the countryside” and infill within the settlement boundary. succession of a viable farm holding. Protected Land P1 To conserve the playing fields and landscape setting of the village.

5 Community Engagement Auchterless CAP

3. COMMUNITY These were endorsed at a Public ENGAGEMENT meeting on 11th June 2015. Fisherford Planning for Real® (PfR) held a Public meeting on 16th June 2015, Auchterless, Inverkeithny and Fisherford attended by 33 people, to endorse Community Council are in receipt Fisherford’s priorities. Both sets of of Community Benefit from the priorities were presented to Foundation Gordonstown windfarm and wished to Scotland, which is administering the consult with their community to decide Community Benefit, at a Public meeting how this should be spent. In September on 2nd July 2015. There were very few Fisherford School 2014 the Community Council decided to responses in the whole process from use the Planning for Real® (PfR) method Inverkeithny or Easterfield. of community engagement facilitated by the Formartine Partnership. This method 3.1 Auchterless Priority involves building a representative model Issues of the village on a large-scale map base, These link very closely to Fig 1, Most on which are placed policy cards by frequently suggested Issues, particularly the attendees at a Public Exhibition. All when it is realised that several of these three schools in the area constructed require the use of a Playing field or a models: Auchterless School built a model Village Hall and thus strengthen the case of Auchterless, Fisherford School of for these being priorities. Fisherford and Easterfield School built Fig 1. Auchterless PfR: Most frequently suggested issues one of Inverkeithny. The Public Exhibition Policy Issue Quantity Traffic & Transport Parking Issues 53 was held in Auchterless School on 24th Traffic & Transport Speeding traffic 48 and 25th April 2015 and was attended Combined** Outdoor Sports Facilities 25 Combined** Shops, libraries, pubs etc. 22 by 105 residents who submitted 365 Combined** Indoor Activities 21 Combined** Community Centre, Café 16 Action cards. Only two residents from Combined** Play park 16 Fisherford attended and the Community Combined** Clubs 14 Traffic & Transport Pavements 10 Council offered to arrange a further TOTAL 225 Public Exhibition at Fisherford. This was Combined** Includes:- Community Facilities; Health; Leisure; Work/ held on 8th May 2015 in Fisherford Training/Economy School and was attended by 21 residents 3.1.1 Discussion who placed 134 Action cards on the Some of these priorities are small, low- Fisherford model. For further details see: cost projects in terms of both finance Gordonstown windfarm from the Fisherford road www.planningforreal.org.uk/what-is-pfr/ and effort, and could be quickly achieved. Others are large projects which will Identification of Priority Issues take several years to achieve and are A collation of the raw data was costly in relation to community effort presented to the Community Council and involvement as well as to cash flow on 21st May 2015 and the priorities from the Turbine Fund. It is unlikely that for Auchterless were decided by the they can all be achieved at the same time, Community Council on 4th June 2015. however, an immediate start can be made

Auchterless: Priority Issues

A. Those requiring first round funding from Foundation Scotland Turbine Fund: i. Acquisition of land for Playing field/Play park/Sports facility; ii. Community Café.

B. Those needing assistance from Aberdeenshire Council and their Partners: i. Car Park; ii. Mobile Library; iii. Community Asset Transfer (CAT) of Auchterless Village Hall; iv. Pavements at either side of the village.

C. Those out-with Community Council control: i. Speeding traffic.

D. Long Term Projects: Inverkeithny Parish Church i. Mobile Shop; ii. Funds for readying ground for Play park/Playing field; iii. Play/sport equipment.

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on all Priority Issues to assess costs and • Estimates for civil engineering, drainage, likely timescales and see if any obstacles fencing/gates, seeding, access paths/ are identified which could cause delay. tracks, car parking. Once the initial assessment has been completed then the projects can be Purchase could be achieved quickly if the prioritised relative to one another. landowner is amenable and the likely cost is of the right order relative to the annual SMALL PROJECTS income from the Turbine Fund. However, Community café other issues need to be considered Given the offer to use Auchterless Parish before purchase is finalised. For instance, Auchterless Planning for Real® Exhibition Church, this could be an immediate the amount of civil engineering required win. It could transfer to the existing will influence the choice and viability of Auchterless Village Hall once easy access the site. is achieved or at a later stage after the completion of an upgrade and extension. The actual construction and installation However, a regular community café in of equipment for football/games and for Auchterless Village Hall could strengthen the play park can follow on and the play the case for its Community Asset Transfer park itself could be constructed gradually and for funding any improvements. over time, to fit cash flow. Consideration of the progress of other priorities will Mobile Library Provision influence the timing of these stages. All this should require is a request to the library service that the mobile library Auchterless Village Hall calls at the village. If agreed then it is The quickly attained stages for another quick win. Auchterless Village Hall are: • Achieving control over access (key Speeding Traffic holding, and booking); Once concerns regarding speeding have • Freeing-up usage by working with the been highlighted to Police Scotland, they Playgroup to improve storage provision, will conduct enforcement and deploy a which might be possible within the mobile speed sign to ascertain the scale existing building or by providing a of the problem and influence future relatively inexpensive outside storage enforcement activity. It is recognised that facility, such as a hut, or a shipping this has to be balanced against concerns container clad in wood; Auchterless Village Hall raised in other areas. • Completing Stage 1 of the Community Asset Transfer Scheme (CAT). This Mobile Shop can be done quickly, without too This is perhaps less straightforward and much effort, and will indicate whether may require a group of residents to the Council is willing to transfer the approach mobile shop proprietors and building. agree to use their shop if it will visit the village. A Stage 2 CAT is demanding and time- consuming. A robust Business Plan will Alternative solutions may be to focus be required and a regular income will on delivery of orders from shops in probably be necessary, perhaps from the neighbouring communities, , Playgroup. Beyond that any extension/ or , or to examine the upgrade will be costly and time- possibility of establishing a Community consuming too. However, all of these shop alongside the Community Café. require a Stage 1 CAT first.

LARGE PROJECTS Car Park Playing Field The preferred site is in the corner of There are aspects which, hopefully, can be the cemetery next to the church and achieved quickly: opposite the school. Thus it would • Purchase of land; provide off-road parking for regular • Overall design, layout and permissions- church services and functions such as planning permissions, road access; weddings as well as funerals. It would also Auchterless School provide parking for the school though this site would involve pupils crossing the road. 7 Community Engagement Auchterless CAP

It could quickly be determined if this ii. Purchasing a narrow strip of land along preferred site is suitable: the edge of fields adjacent to the road • Discuss with Aberdeenshire Council’s and paying for fencing and pavement Landscape Services (managers of the surfacing. cemetery) whether they will agree to a car park and whether they can provide 3.1.2 Actions and Timing it from their budget, given Council Quick-win Projects cutbacks; The Community café, mobile library • If they cannot provide it fully, would provision and speeding enforcement are Auchterless 2014 Formartine in Bloom (FiB) winner they agree to Community Council quick and low in cost/effort. partly or wholly funding it from the Turbine Fund and are there restrictions QUICK LARGE PROJECTS on using the fund for such a purpose? As discussed above, the early stages • Discuss with Aberdeenshire Roads of the Playing Field, Auchterless Village Department whether the existing Hall and the Car Park projects can be access onto B992 is suitable; achieved quickly. Moving beyond these • Construction will need planning stages will need further assessment permission and comply with standards. of cost/cash flow and group capacity. It seems likely that only one can be If agreement on this preferred site cannot progressed at any one time, so there is be reached, then the Community Council a need for priorities to be established will need to consider another site. If it is within the list of Large Projects. added to the Playing field project, it may increase the overall costs of both. Pavements This seems very long-term. Pavements This, a long-term project to extend Please refer to ACTION PLAN roadside pavements at each end of village, SUMMARY on page 11. is likely to be very expensive and beyond both the Council’s Roads budget and the 3.2 FISHERFORD Turbine Fund. This is because not only will new pavements be required, but the Fig 2 shows the most frequently road will need to be re-constructed, too, suggested issues. Auchterless FiB: Flower beds and turnip masher to meet standards and land will need to Fig 2. Fisherford PfR: Most frequently suggested issues be purchased. Contact with the Roads Policy Issue Quantity Traffic & Transport Speeding 27 department will quickly establish its Local Environment Nature 19 feasibility. Combined** Outdoor Facilities 14 Combined** Indoor Activities 13 Housing Types of new housing 9 Combined** Notice Board 7 There are perhaps two alternative ways Local Environment Village Green 6 of achieving this policy more cheaply: Others Broadband 6 TOTAL 101 i. New houses along the road could Combined** Includes:- Community Facilities; Health; Leisure; Work/ require provision of a pavement. This Training/Economy would be provided by the developer and included in construction costs;

3.2.1 Fisherford Priority Issues

A. Those requiring first round funding from Foundation Scotland Turbine Fund: i. Fisherford Leisure and Activities Group (FLAG) - Equipment; ii. Fun day; iii. Signage for Fisherford Community Association’s Play park.

B. Those needing assistance from Aberdeenshire Council and their Partners: i. Broadband; ii. Flowers for village (Aberdeenshire Council give flowers not funds).

C. Those out-with Community Council control: i. Speeding traffic. Auchterless FiB: Hanging basket D. Long Term Projects: i. Future Capital Investment for a Building (Community Hall).

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3.2.1 Fisherford Priority Issues LARGE QUICK PROJECTS • Broadband A. First Round Funds Aberdeenshire Council are upgrading These focus on re-building the cohesion broadband and mobile phone networks of the community by organising low-cost throughout the shire. By the end of events and community functions. They 2015 they will know which areas don’t link closely to Fig. 2 but community will receive fibre connections so cohesion and identity are appropriate areas outside can choose to erect a first steps in re-building the Fisherford wireless dish. The whole programme is Community Association. scheduled for completion in 2017. Fisherford Planning for Real® Exhibition

B. Aberdeenshire Council LONG TERM PROJECTS The Council can supply free bulbs and • Community Hall bedding plants co-ordinated through It would be good if Fisherford could the Community Council. Formartine identify with Auchterless Village Hall as Partnership awards funding towards their local hall and support it. planters. The Council is also developing a major Please refer to ACTION PLAN scheme to improve Broadband and SUMMARY on page 11. mobile phone signal in the rural areas so that may fulfil Fisherford’s requirements. 4. LINKS TO THE FORMARTINE C. Speeding Traffic COMMUNITY PLAN This requires enforcement from Police Scotland. 4.1 Community Planning: Formartine Local D. Community Hall Community Plan 2013- It would strengthen the Auchterless 2016 Village Hall project if Fisherford agreed The Formartine Community Plan is a to support and use this hall as if it was three year plan, developed in response their own. to both Formartine-wide and more local issues, which are identified 3.2.2 Fisherford Priority Issues: through contact with local communities, Actions and timing community groups, organisations and Fisherford playing field individuals and in Partnership action plans. SMALL, QUICK-WIN Community Planning Partners (including PROJECTS Council Services, NHS Grampian, Police • The FLAG equipment purchase, Fun Scotland, Voluntary Sector Organisations day and Play park signage are quick and other bodies) work together with and low in cost and effort. A barbeque the area’s Community Councils and has been held and applications to the other community groups to deliver a Turbine fund have been made for the wide range of Partnership projects. others. The Plan is monitored and reviewed • Flowers on an annual basis, to ensure it remains Flowers and planters are quickly and responsive to communities’ evolving cheaply obtained. needs and priorities. The Formartine Community Plan and details about • Speeding Traffic Community Planning in Formartine can be Once concerns regarding speeding have found at: www.ouraberdeenshire.org.uk/ been highlighted to Police Scotland, formartine they will conduct enforcement and deploy a mobile speed sign to ascertain the scale of the problem and influence future enforcement activity. It is recognised that this has to be balanced against concerns raised in other areas. Fisherford Fjord Hotel

9 Links to Formartine Community Plan Auchterless CAP

4.2 2013-2016 Formartine Community Plan: The Six Key Priorities:

Priority 1 Ensuring that the residents of Formartine enjoy healthy and active lifestyles

Priority 2 Road Safety

Priority 3 Community Capacity Building

Priority 4 Securing improved community facilities and partnership delivery of services

Auchterless School wildflower garden Priority 5 Supporting the development of economic activity and healthy town centres

Priority 6 Transport and accessibility to services

Fig 3: Links Between The Formartine Community Plan And AIF CC Community Action Plan

Formartine Community Actions Relevant To The Plan 2013-16 Auchterless Action Plan

Priority 1. Ensuring the residents of 1.3 To improve the general health and wellbeing of Formartine enjoy active and healthy lifestyles. our communities by implementing a number of projects and initiatives promoting active lifestyles including: • Increasing opportunities for walking and cycling; • Community based opportunities for people to meet and • socialise including opportunities for arts and culture • experiences;

Priority 2. Road Safety. 2.2 To use the data gathered from speed detection hardware to monitor and enforce speed limits in the communities of Formartine.

Priority 3. Community Capacity Building. 3.3 To continue to support communities during any Community Asset Transfers, where communities have an interest in developing their own facilities and services.

Auchterless School water garden Priority 4. Securing improved community 4.1 To work with communities to bring forward facilities and partnership delivery of services. proposals for enhanced community facilities by offering support, guidance and advice to deliver these projects. 4.3 To work with local communities and education, leisure and library venues to make best possible use of buildings when not being used, exploring possibilities for community use.

Priority 5. Support the development of 5.1 To work with local communities in maintaining economic activity. and enhancing the appearance of towns and villages in the area through the development of: • Nature conservation; • Paths and outdoor access. 5.6 Explore European Funding opportunities through partnership working for collaborative bids.

Priority 6. Transport and accessibility 6.5 To improve the parking situation in our towns to services. and villages by working with the community to educate drivers on safe and considerate parking in towns and villages and near schools.

Easterfield School

10 Action Plan Summary Auchterless CAP Police Scotland Police Parish Church AIF CC; CA Fisherford CA Fisherford S Landscape AC FCA; Scotland Police AC AIF CC; AC libraries AC AIF CC; AIF CC AIF CC CA; Fisherford AIF CC; AC CAT team CAT AC AIF CC; AIF CC Roads Office; AC AC Landscape S; AIF CC S; Landscape AC Partners Partners AIF CC; AC Planning AC AIF CC; AIF CC AIF CC; AC Planning AC AIF CC; Fisherford CA Fisherford AIF CC AIF CC; Parish Church AIF CC; AIF CC; AC Landscape S Landscape AC AIF CC;

Complete. Completed first speed check. Café. Alongside Community of user group. formation requires Probably Fund. Turbine Scotland Applied to Foundation Fund. Turbine Applied to FS Held barbeque; 2015. and planters flowers for 2016 - Need to apply Completed first speed check. 2017. completed by Project Auchterless Hall as own. Consider supporting Assess next stages against Playing Field, Car Park. Field, Assess next stages against Playing too. of road re-construction because requires Costly Construction or identify alternative site. Construction or identify alternative Stages Stages Alternatives - housing provision/path in edge of field. in edge of - housing provision/path Alternatives Assess next stages against Village Hall, Car Park. Village Hall, Assess next stages against Purchase, Layout/permissions, estimates. Layout/permissions, Purchase, Applied to FS Turbine Fund. Turbine Applied to FS Control of access, playgroup storage; CAT stage 1. stage CAT storage; playgroup of access, Control Complete. Will inform later stages of Village Hall. later stages of Will inform Complete. Establish feasibility of preferred site. of preferred Establish feasibility Quick Quick Medium Medium Quick Quick Quick Quick Medium Medium/Long Medium Long Medium Timing Timing Long Medium Quick Quick Quick Quick Quick

FCP Priority - Fig 3 4.1 1.3, 4.1 2.2 4.1 4.1 FCP Priority - Fig 3 1.3 1.3 5.1 2.2 4.1 1.3, 4.1, 5.6 4.1, 1.3, 5.6 4.3, 4.1, 3.3, 1.3, 6.5 5.6, 2, 2 1.3, 4.1

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KIRKTON KIRKTON OF AUCHTERLESS Project SMALL PROJECTS Café Community Mobile Library Traffic Speeding Shop Community Mobile Shop LARGE PROJECTS Field Playing Village Auchterless Hall Car Park Pavements Landscape Aberdeenshire Landscape S - AC Team; Transfer Asset - Community Team CAT Council; Aberdeenshire - AC Council; Community and Fisherford Inverkeithny Auchterless, AIF CC - FCP - Formartine Plan; Community LEGEND: Services. FISHERFORD Project SMALL PROJECTS equipment FLAG Fun Days Signage Park Flowers Traffic Speeding LARGE PROJECTS Broadband Hall Community Landscape Services.Aberdeenshire Landscape S - AC Council; Aberdeenshire - AC Association; FCA Community - Fisherford FCP - Formartine Plan; Community LEGEND: This Action Plan summarises the Issues highlighted in this Report and suggests which partners will be involved in helping to achieve them. them. in helping to achieve Action Plan summarises the Issues highlighted in this Report and suggests which partners will be involved This

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This booklet is one of a series plan is based on the results of resources will be needed and produced by Local Rural Planning for Real® exercises target dates for completion. It is Partnerships together with the carried out by the communities hoped that this process will be community under the banner themselves, together with any driven by representatives of the Community Action Plan. other available reports. This community with support - moral, process ensures that the plans technical and financial - from the The initiative is sponsored by are truly community-led. relevant partners. Aberdeenshire Community Planning Partnership and run This information can now guide It is important that this booket by Aberdeenshire Community the community and Community is seen by all concerned as an Economic Development Co- Planning Partners in drawing account of the community’s ordinators Forum. The aim is to up detailed action plans to views at the time of the latest provide community action plans implement the top priorities consultation, and that it will have in an attractive, easy to read, as well as addressing the to be regularly reviewed and professionally printed format. other issues which have been updated. As some projects are identified. For each priority or completed, other issues will arise For most communities, the issue this will involve agreeing and take their place in future content of each community who should be involved, what versions of the community plan.

Thanks are due to: Auchterless, Inverkeithny and Fisherford Community Council, Fisherford Community Association, Formartine Community Planning Group, Formartine Area Committee Officers, Auchterless School, Fisherford School, Easterfield School and Formartine Partnership

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