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Title: Dailly – Establishing Existing Service Provision & Future Need

Purpose: To identify existing service provision in Dailly and review the opportunities to work together, improve services and make better use of facilities in the future.

Setting: The first workshop was held in the County Buildings, and was facilitated by Scottish Futures Trust in March 2013. It was attended by officers from South Council covering Education, Property, Housing, Planning, Communities, Libraries and Sport. Officers from NHS also attended.

The workshop was structured around group working with 20 attendees being split into four groups. The groups identified and debated relevant local issues, agreed key outputs and reported back at the end of the workshop.

The Council provided data on the various public buildings in the village, e.g. title plans, basic property information and a large scale aerial map.

Narrative: The planned new investment was recognised by attendees as a ‘once in a generation’ opportunity to bring about wider social, economic and physical benefits for the village. In particular the potential for the investment to contribute to improving the heart of the village was highlighted.

Attendees recognised that Dailly faced a number of social and economic challenges. For example it was acknowledged that issues around health and wellbeing and employment opportunities regularly featured on resident’s concerns about life in the village.

Local people felt strongly about the school being at the heart of the community. This was partly because the school had remained, albeit with other annexes built in the grounds, in the same sandstone building.

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Generations of Dailly residents had attended the school and felt a strong sense of affection for it and for it to remain in its current location.

Participants linked better public services (such as education, library, health care, sports, etc) with retaining existing families and businesses and attracting new ones.

The workshop agreed that the building of a new school provided an opportunity for the wider community to benefit from this ‘once in a generation’ level of investment in the village.

It was agreed that the next steps would be to build on the consensus of opinion reached, i.e. that working together from shared facilities is a beneficial approach to providing services and managing buildings, and therefore new investment should be planned in this way.

It was also highlighted that the Dailly residents had experience in running community assets and that this expertise, knowledge and enthusiasm should not be overlooked or lost.

PRIORITIES: The key priority outcomes from this stage were:

 A desire to adopt an approach based on shared facilities and service integration across all public sector areas

 Build upon the current community experience in running physical assets

 A really strong wish to locate new investment in the village centre on either the current site or directly opposite

 The need to deal, in some instances sensitively, with any surplus buildings which may be created following new investment

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Title: Dailly – What May This Future Provision Look Like?

Purpose: To establish what Dailly could look like in ten years time. Participants were asked how Dailly worked as a village and what was felt to be special, key and unique about it. Discussion also took place on identifying where the heart of the village lay and how this new investment could contribute to enhancing it.

Setting: The second workshop was held in Dailly Community Centre in April 2013. Council officers, NHS Ayrshire & Arran, local councillors and the head teacher attended.

It was facilitated by Scottish Futures Trust and supported by two urbanists appointed by Architecture + Design . The urban designers interpreted the group discussions and produced indicative sketch illustrations. These sketches incorporated future service requirements and showed how these may be accommodated.

Narrative: The current school layout was considered by participants to restrict the delivery of primary school education. Apart from the school being in three different buildings, the topography is challenging with the buildings on platforms and the playground sloping.

A new school was seen to be an opportunity to consider how other community services, including library, health care and hall facilities, are provided.

The school also uses the external countryside environment for learning and play. Outdoor education and activity feature heavily in its curriculum. The school would like to continue this and improve the way it links indoor education to outdoor learning and play.

Ideas around a new school opposite the current one acting as a link to the surrounding countryside were worked up by participants and illustrated by the

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urbanists into the indicative sketch illustration below:

The new school could be built on the space directly across the road from the current school site with other community uses (such as library, health care, etc) utilising the original school building.

AMBITION: A series of key ambition outcomes from this stage were agreed at the workshop:

 The new school will create links between indoor teaching and outdoor play by having by a large green space immediately adjacent

 The heart of the school should be a shared teaching and leisure space

 Community uses (library, health clinic, etc) could make use of the old school building

 Potential for outdoor education and natural play across the Water of

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Title: Dailly – Strategic Review

Purpose: Consider the progress made and test the emerging collaborative approach to enable meaningful community engagement. This stage reviewed what the future layout of services could look like in the village and compared and contrasted this against the existing pattern of provision.

Setting: The third workshop was held in the County Buildings in Ayr in May 2013 and was attended by a mix of South Ayrshire Council officers, local members and the head teacher and representatives from the parent council and the community.

A workshop setting was used to confirm the progress made to date and to agree the next steps. Groups critically reviewed the ideas that had been put forward and reported back on the potential benefits and hurdles to be overcome.

Narrative: The focus of Dailly’s new learning environment would be to provide an outstanding education facility which linked pupils’ learning and play with their surrounding green spaces and nature.

There was recognition that working together and sharing facilities could deliver a range of services and property management benefits. The new school should also be an inclusive community resource.

Participants welcomed the new investment in the village. However, they highlighted that it should not duplicate existing buildings/services run by the community which appeared to be functioning well such as the Community Hall and Activity Centre.

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Participants made it clear that there was a community wide wish that the new school in Dailly should to be open to the public, easily accessible and provide benefits to the wider community.

Examples of this were suggested as potentially being:

 Provision of better links to high speed broadband to increase the connectivity of Dailly’s residents and businesses to the internet and online services

 Creation of a community cafe/ gallery area

 The release of the old school building could allow it to be used by other community uses such as library services or health care (the latter potentially involving accommodating an NHS clinic which could relocate from elsewhere in Dailly)

OPPORTUNITIES: The key opportunity outcomes from this stage were:

 Seek approval on the outputs of the “working together” approach from both local members, South Ayrshire Council officers, the school and NHS Ayrshire and Arran officers.

 Ensure the maximum benefit is achieved from the investment available (in terms of wider place benefits) for the village.

 The review confirmed that“working together” was the right approach for the future delivery of services.

 Enabling the process to progress to wider community engagement.

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Title: Dailly – Community Engagement

Purpose: Wider community engagement aimed to provide the local community with an opportunity to participate in the process and to ensure that the Strategic Brief being developed would be relevant to the needs and aspirations of the people of Dailly.

Setting: This fourth stage involved two public meetings in June 2013 in Dailly Community Centre. A total of 14 people attended including a range of community participants as well as South Ayrshire Council officers responsible for the school and Council estate.

These sessions provided an opportunity for the community to debate and shape the strategic brief for a community campus. They also provided an opportunity to raise awareness of the need for the estate to be more effective, efficient and economic.

The meetings would be facilitated by South Ayrshire Council officers supported by an urban designer. The urban design assistance could capture the community ideas and illustrate what Dailly as a place could look and feel like.

The format of the sessions would be working groups to discuss Dailly as a place, the values and aspirations of the local community and what participants believe should be protected and what needs to change.

Narrative: It was agreed that the new investment presented a great opportunity to become a ‘showcase’ for the work and achievements of the learning environment in Dailly.

In developing a new community campus style facility the best location place was considered to be on Main Street where it could significantly contribute to

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enhancing the physical appearance of the centre of the village.

There was considered potential to create new civic spaces for a range of outdoor activities such as socialising, gardening, play, active tourism, etc.

PLACEMAKING: The key placemaking outcomes from this stage were:

 A strong focus on using the investment to improve the village centre.

 Continue a place based approach when planning to invest or change services in Dailly.

 Ensure the strategic brief for a new community campus builds on the progress made on delivering services by working together and sharing buildings where appropriate.

 Explore further the potential inclusion of other services and the financial and environmental benefits that could be achieved e.g. savings and carbon reduction.

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