News on North Ayrshire’s third Local Development Plan

The Place Standard is an easy-to-use tool to evaluate a place. The tool allows you to consider the physical and social aspects that make a place, highlighting successful assets and areas for improvement. Local knowledge and a shared understanding of a place help to make good decisions and target resources. The tool allows you to assess and re-assess a place in a consistent way to see over time if improvements have been made as well as to identify any new areas for improvement.

The Place Standard tool is based around 14 questions allowing you to think about the physical elements of a place – such as the buildings, spaces and transport – as well as the social aspects – like how safe you feel, or if you feel you have a say in decision making. The tool allows you to assess your place against the fourteen questions using a 1 to 7 scoring system where 1 means there is a lot of room for improvement and 7 means there is very little room for improvement.

Key principles for the assessment are to think about your place now and in the future – what could change and what impact would that have on your place? Next think about your place in different contexts for example different times of day, different weather conditions or different seasons. Think about your place from your own perspective but also from the point of view of others.

Our Your Place Survey follows the principles of the Place Standard tool and encourages people that live work or visit North Ayrshire to complete the assessment by telling us what is good about Your Place. In addition, Young People ages 13 – 17 can get involved by telling us about their place with the Young People Survey.

More information about the Place Standard and Place Standard for children and Young People can be found on the Our Place website.