Scottish Borders Community Plan
The introduction of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 requires the Scottish Borders Community Planning Partnership (CPP) to prepare and publish a Community Plan, sometimes referred to as a Local Outcomes Improvement Plan (LOIP).
The Community Plan focuses on improving outcomes and reducing inequalities for the whole of the Scottish Borders.
This is best addressed through a Borders-wide approach, with community planning partners collectively working together, and with local communities and businesses.
Our aspiration is to have a Community Plan that is dynamic and interactive, a plan that responds to changes that occur within the Borders. As such, the CPP will be consulting periodically as the plan develops.
The 2023-33 Community Plan was approved by the Community Planning Strategic Board in September 2023.
The Progress Report on our previous Community Plan is now available.
The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act legislation also requires the CPP to prepare and publish more localised plans addressing local challenges and to improve local outcomes.
There are currently five Locality Plans representing the five localities of:
These Locality Plans were published in 2020 and were drafted through local area partnerships. Work is currently underway in 2025 to produce new locality plans in Burnfoot (Hawick), Bannerfield (Selkirk), and Langlee (Galashiels).
We have developed a Performance Management Framework that sets out how we will monitor our work.