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MINUTES of MEETING of ARGYLL AND BUTE COMMUNITY PLANNING PARTNERSHIP -
MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE held in the ONLINE VIA MS TEAMS 
on THURSDAY, 22 JUNE 2023 
Present:  
Joe McKay, Scottish Fire and Rescue
Service (Chair)
Morag Goodfellow, Highland and Island
Enterprise (HIE)
Fergus Walker, Argyll and Bute Council
(ABC)
Takki Sulaiman, Argyll and Bute TSI
Cllr Robin Currie, Leader of Council David Gibson, HSCP
Chief Superintendent Lynn Ratcliff,
Police Scotland
Ryan MacIntyre, Member of the Scottish
Youth Parliament (MSYP)
Shona Barton, ABC Susan McRae, SDS
Ann Kennovin, LiveArgyll Iain MacInnes, ABC
Kirsty Moyes, ABC Rory Munro, NHS Highland
Stan Philips, NatureScot John McLuckie, ABC
Lucy Dunbar, ABC Graham Bell, NHS Highland Board
Alex Edmonstone, LiveArgyll Laura Evans, Police Scotland
David Adams-McGilp, VisitScotland Martin Jones, UHI
Cathy Craig, Argyll and the Isles
Tourism Co-operative
Alex Wilde, Improvement Service
Kevin Champion, OLI ACPG  Nicola Reaney, ABC (Secretary)
Apologies 
Pippa Milne, Argyll and Bute Council
(ABC)
Fergus Murray, ABC
Kirsty Flanagan, ABC Rona Gold, ABC
Fiona Davies, HSCP Samantha Campbell, NHS Highland
Cllr Alistair Redman, ABC Anthony Standing, SDS 
1. WELCOME AND APOLOGIES (CHAIR) 
Joe welcomed everyone to the meeting and apologies were noted as above. 
2. APPROVAL OF LAST MINUTES AND REVIEW OF ACTIONS (JOHN
MCLUCKIE) 
The minutes of the March meeting were accepted. John reviewed the outstanding
actions as follows: 
- There are two actions outstanding action following the OFCOM presentation to the
December 2022 meeting, one for Kevin Allibone to raise within DWP the provision
of an alternative provider to TalkTalk in Argyll and Bute and the other on Jonathon
Ruff to share the Connect Nations Scotland report with the CPP MC once

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published. There is no update to provide on these at present however the CPP
team will continue to seek a response on both of these actions.
- The action for Rona and Iain MacInnes to meet to discuss the wider
communication of the link for residents to explore if / when full fibre is available,
and information on the voucher scheme, is in progress.
- The action for Alex Edmonstone to provide a paper and update to June
Community Planning Partnership Management Committee (CPP MC) meeting on
the digital working group and how communities can be supported to access
digital, in order to undertake Community Learning, will be completed at today’s
meeting. 
3. AREA COMMUNITY PLANNING GROUP UPDATE (SHONA BARTON) 
Shona gave an overview of her report and highlighted that there had been successful
meetings across all areas in May. The utilisation of hybrid meeting equipment in
Helensburgh and Lomond (HL), Oban Lorn and the Isles (OLI) and Mid Argyll, Kintyre
and the Islands (MAKI) has proven successful. Variety of subjects covered at all of the
meetings and Shona gave thanks to Rona and her teams for the assistance in delivering
development sessions with the new Chairs and Vice Chairs.   
One action for the Management Committee arose from the Bute and Cowal (BC) ACPG
where they have asked the CPP MC to consider their concerns regarding the lack of a
car ferry service to Dunoon, the detail of which is in the report. Joe commented that
Transport Infrastructure is one of the top priorities highlighted by the recent Argyll and
Bute Outcome Improvement Plan (ABOIP) consultation and this issue will likely be raised
at the focus groups due later in the year. Shona also noted that OLI ACPG will be
seeking a new Chair in August.   
ACTION - All partners are invited to share comments relating to the lack of a car
ferry to Dunoon to cppadmin@argyll-bute.gov.uk 
Joe said there had been an excellent range of presentations, updates and discussions
taking place at the latest Area Community Planning Group meetings and gave thanks to
the partners who have provided updates to those meetings. He added that the ACPGs
have also had a presentation on the NHS Highland Director of Public Health report and
advised that there will be a presentation on that topic at the September CPP MC
meeting. 
4. CROSS CUTTING THEMES 
(a) Climate Change (Stan Philips) 
Stan gave a presentation in addition to his paper on “Addressing the
Climate Emergency in Argyll and Bute project by the Climate Change
Working Group (CCWG)”. Over the past year the CCWG been focused on
producing a climate change plan for Argyll and Bute and proposed to
recruit a Climate Change Manager to lead this process. £70k of the target
£120k funding has been secured and further funding options are still being
explored (including £15k from NatureScot with the Argyll and Bute Third
Sector Interface (TSI) also assisting in identifying other funding
opportunities). Once a memorandum of agreement has been finalised

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between the CPP MC and the Argyll and the Isles Coast and Countryside
Trust (ACT), who will be hosting the post, recruitment can begin for the
Manager position. 
Stan asked for the thoughts from the CPP MC regarding who should sit on
the Climate Change Steering Group (CCSG) which will manage the action
plan project over the next two years. Current draft parties include Stan, a
representative from the CPP team, Sara McLean (ACT), Angela Anderson
(HL ACPG and Plastic Free Helensburgh) and Tom Warren (Sustainability
Manager Construction Scotland and Chair of Dunoon Community
Council). Cllr Currie thought that, as the main funders, NHS Highland,
Argyll and Bute Council (ABC) and NatureScot should be represented on
the CCSG. Morag felt that there needs to be at least 2 or 3
representatives on the CCSG from the CPP MC but was aware that the
challenging financial times may limit the available resource within each
organisation. Joe and others highlighted the great work of chairing the
CCWG to date by Stan, however Stan gave credit for the work to the
members of the group. 
ACTION – Community Planning team to circulate the job description
for the Climate Change Manager position and asked for any
nominations to the CCSG to be forwarded to cppadmin@argyll-
bute.gov.uk by Friday 7 July 2023. 
Stan advised that over the next 2 years, once the project is up and
running, the CCWG will manage the function and support to the CCSG,
continue to seek funding, monitor the action plan and continue to report
progress to the CPP MC but he asked if the CPP MC had any other ideas
on what they would like to see the CCWG do over that period (whilst not
duplicating existing work at climate change hubs). Cllr Currie added that
the Council has declared a climate emergency in Argyll and Bute and was
open to suggestions on what else the Council could be doing to be more
involved in this. 
ACTION- Stan, Cllr Currie and Ross McLaughlin to meet to discuss
climate change support that can be provided by the Council.   
ACTION - Partners are invited to forward ideas on other CCWG
activities to stan.phillips@nature.scot 
Finally, Stan advised that he intends to step down as the Chair of the
CCWG once the action plan project is established and asked the CPP MC
for guidance on the process to appoint a new Chair.  Joe said the new
Chair needs to be from a strategic level and asked the CPP team to
forward information to partners to consider taking up this post. 
ACTION – Community Planning team to circulate information to
partners regarding the CCWG Chair position. 
(b) Financial Inclusion (Fergus Walker) 
Fergus Walker provided a verbal update to his paper at the meeting. This

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included: 
- Scottish Welfare Fund. From 1 April to 31 May 2023, £79k has
been provided against £458k funding available for the year. 
- Discretionary Housing Payment. Up to 31 May 2023, £751k has
been spent, with funds remaining from the initial tranche 1 funding
of £869k. Fergus expects to receive a further £192k from the
Scottish government in tranche 2. This total £1.06m allocation will
be split between mitigating the effects of the bedroom tax and
those facing rent hardship due to benefit cap issues with ongoing
work to maximise take up of these funds. 
- Flexible Food Fund. Up to 31 March, 1800 households facing food
and fuel insecurity in Argyll and Bute had benefitted from this fund
with an average client gain of £1400 per household. £204k has
been granted from the Shared Prosperity Funding that will allow the
project to continue to 2025. Fergus advised the Flexible Food Fund
has won a second national award from Assist FM Community
Focus Awards (the management body for Facilities Management
professionals) and has been featured as a case study by the
Scottish Government under the National Action Plan.
- School Clothing Project. This is live in BC, OLI and Kintyre and is
being introduced to Mid-Argyll and the Isles. There is now a live
website for this project. Fergus said this has been a great piece of
work with community groups and there is more to do and he and
Rona are discussing how the Community Development Officers
can support this further by the end of Summer 2023. 
- Scotland Loves Local cards. These have been given out to
qualifying households in the area in receipt of council tax reduction.
Funding for this was issued by the Scottish Government as part of
the Local Authority Covid Economic Recovery and Islands Fund.
He was unable to report on the activation rate and spend on these
cards currently, but hopes to have that information by the end of
June when he can circulate that to partners. 
ACTION - Fergus Walker to provide information on activation and
spend on Love Local cards to cppadmin to circulate to partners. 
- £197k funding for islands has been used to trial a top up to the free
school meal allowance by £1.60 in secondary schools and also
used to support food banks on islands.   
Fergus is looking to further enhance their data matching to better identify
communities in particular need. He currently uses council tax reduction
and arrears data in conjunction with information from the Scottish Welfare
Fund Crisis Grants to do this, however, some of this data belongs to DWP
and they may tighten up on the use of that data. Fergus will assess the
impact of this once more guidance is available from DWP. 
An exciting 2 year project is about to start in partnership with the Poverty
Alliance and the Third Sector to evidence local and national factors that
affect poverty. Fergus is keen to get the data from this project on the
experience of those living in poverty in rural Scotland and how we can use

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that data to mitigate poverty, via policy changes, in Argyll and Bute. Takki
advised that he had been contacted by the Poverty Alliance to assist in
the recruitment of a Development Manager for this project that will map
current efforts, build network capacity and concentrate on areas in most
need. 
ACTION - Fergus Walker to share the details of the project with the
Poverty Alliance once available, via the Community Planning team. 
Joe thanked Fergus and his team for the great work they are doing to
support those in need across our area. 
David noted that recent figures had shown a rise in child poverty in Argyll
and Bute, but that rise was not as bad as other areas. He agreed there
was a phenomenal amount of existing work to mitigate child poverty. He
added that as the figures are post code based, this can affect the results
for our rural and island communities where a single post code can contain
extremes at both end of the wealth spectrum. 
Ryan asked what promotion there is currently for the available funds.
Fergus advised that they are all promoted across social media, the
Council webpage, via Bute advice centre and AliEnergy and press
releases. Lucy also noted that the funds are promoted via the CPP
Bulletin that is sent regularly to all partners. 
(c) Community Wealth Building (Takki Sulaiman and Morag Goodfellow) 
Takki gave a presentation on the Community Wealth Building - Audit,
Strategy and Business Plans. CLES have been appointed as the
consultant to produce these plans that will look at the five pillars of CWB
(plural ownership of the economy, making financial power work for local
places, fair employment and just labour markets, progressive procurement
of goods and service and socially just use of land and property). CLES are
Manchester based and have partnered with a local collective to do work
on the ground working with local communities.   
The work CLES are being asked to do has been divided into lots: 
- Lot 1 is an audit of existing best practice and a mapping exercise
against each of the five pillars,
- Lot 2 is to identify case studies that can be replicated across Argyll
and Bute and identify opportunities relevant to our local and
strategic plans, 
- Lot 3 is the development of a CWB strategy and action plan, and
- Lots 4 and 5 are the development of 2 business cases and models
to move actions forward in two areas (proposed to explore a
business model for Community Energy and a food hub but the final
focus will be determined by the audit and mapping exercise). 
The project will be managed by a steering group, the proposed members
of which are Takki Sulaiman (TSI), Morag Goodfellow / Claire McMurchy
(HIE), Chief Executive and Directors from Argyll and Bute Council
(supported by John McLuckie), Anthony standing / Susan McRae (SDS)

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and Alison McGrory (NHS Highland). Terms of reference for the steering
group will discussed at the first meeting and will approve project activity
before reporting back to the CPP MC for ratification in December 2023. 
The project will include interviews with partners in July - August 2023 and
there will be a dedicated CPP workshop in August / September 2023
which will give an opportunity for all partners to deepen their
understanding of CWB and how we can use it meaningfully. Citizen led
workshops will be held from August to October 2023 (one in each
administrative area) and these will be used to feed into plan outcomes
before business cases are selected in October 2023. 
Joe thanked Takki for his update on this. Cllr Currie noted a good existing
example of CWB is Scottish Power proposing an offshore windward near
Colonsay and Islay and they are actively looking to the community on
procurement servicing and community benefit funds. Takki agreed and
added that there are various ways energy model partnerships can function
be it direct community benefit or profit sharing / shareholding, however the
initial set up costs can be high for the anchor institutions although the
longer term social and community benefits would be valuable. Joe said
the Fire Service were already using local tradesman on islands for fire
station contracts. David also gave examples of how Comhairle nan Eilean
Siar have used CWB to deliver school coach contracts, land buyouts and
grave digging services to great effect. 
ACTION - All partners are requested to make time available for CWB
interviews with CLES. 
Rory added a link in the meeting chat to an article in the Lancet on the
mental health and wellbeing impact of a Community Wealth Building
programme in England for information. 
(d) Digital Communities (Iain MacInnes and Alex Edmonstone) 
Alex Edmonstone provided an update on the CLD Partnership advising
that Digital Skills is a key theme in the 3 year strategy and a digital work
stream group has been created to look at digital inclusion and complete a
mapping exercise, details of which are in his paper.  The
recommendations by the consultants will be discussed at the next digital
work stream meeting in July before reporting to the CLD Partnership and
then to the September CPP MC. Alex advised that a Helensburgh pilot to
provide free wifi access (dongles) to those with an identified learning need
has gone well and it is hoped to roll this out across a wider area. 
ACTION - Alex E to report to September CPP MC on the consultant
recommendations for digital skills, digital inclusion and the results
of the Helensburgh free wifi for learning pilot. 
Iain MacInnes advised the R100 fibre roll out is still progressing in Argyll
and Bute, currently installing at Ardfern. The roll out has experienced
delays due to lack of accommodation available for the contractors. As part
of the Shared Rural Network Infrastructure programme to install 4-5G in

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rural areas, the Argyll and Bute area is due to have 50 new mobile masts
installed. This is a massive investment in the area targeting partial and not
spots in network coverage. Three have already gone live and there are 18
more at the planning stages across the area. Digital Hubs are now
installed and up and running on Iona and Islay and drop in sessions will
be available to show residents how the hubs work. Digital hubs are also
planned for Coll and Tiree but there have been some supply chain issues
that have delayed the start of work at those sites.   
Cllr Currie had received a letter from the Chief Network Officer at
Vodafone stating that they are nervous regarding the number of planning
applications in progress with Argyll and Bute Council for masts, given the
deadline to install is fast approaching. Iain MacInnes advised that he was
already in contact with Vodafone and is working closely with them on this. 
(e) Building Back Better (Kirsty Moyes) 
Kirsty spoke to her report which detailed the successful structures and
ways of working with the community that have been developed since the
start of the pandemic and gave an overview of the engagement
undertaken with communities. This included regular meetings, peer to
peer working, targeting funding to meet needs and the ABOIP
consultation. The report also outlines what is already happening in
partnership work on the identified themes with recommendations on how
to progress on gaps and building this work with communities going
forward, taking learning from the positives and challenges during that
time. Community Development are also looking at how to support the
wider Council to engage with communities. 
ACTION - Partners are invited to consider the recommendations in
the Building Back Better report and submit suggestions to
cppadmin@argyll-bute.gov.uk on ways we can work together on
those. 
5. DEVELOPMENT OF NEW OUTCOME IMPROVEMENT PLAN (JOHN
MCLUCKIE) 
John provided an update on the ongoing work on the new Outcome Improvement Plan
with a short presentation. The consultation results were presented at the March CPP MC
and the top 3 themes were then discussed in more detail at the successful CPP MC
Development Day in Arrochar on 18 May 2023. This was followed up with a survey which
was circulated to all partners to complete to gather intelligence and insight on the top
themes (Transport Infrastructure, Housing and Community Wellbeing). Susan McRae
asked for the survey to be forwarded to her to complete on behalf of Skills Development
Scotland. 
ACTION - CPP team to send reminder to partners that have not completed the
ABOIP survey. Partners to complete and return this by Friday 7 July 2023.

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Output from the Development Day included the preference to meet in person for some
CPP MCs and extend meetings as required to deep dive into topics and to create a
steering group to direct the creation of the ABOIP over the next few months. The steering
group would ideally look to be in place by July / August consisting of 3 - 4 members of
the CPP MC, focus groups would happen in September / October and then the data will
be analysed before the ABOIP is published in November / December. Ryan noted in the
meeting chat that he was interested in joining the steering group. 
ACTION - Partners that are interested in joining the ABOIP steering group can
contact cppadmin@argyll-bute.gov.uk by Friday 7 July 2023. 
ACTION - Partners planning community engagement over the next 3 months are
requested to contact the CPP team at cppadmin@argyll-bute.gov.uk to discuss
possible involvement or the inclusion of questions to help inform the next steps in
the ABOIP process. 
Joe felt the progress on the ABOIP plan was progressing really well and thanked the
CPP team for the work on this. 
6. UPDATE ON WIDER PARTNERSHIP WORK 
(a) Children and Young People's Service Plan 2023-26 (David Gibson
and John McLuckie) 
John highlighted the report which includes the governance structure within
the service. The Argyll and Bute Strategic Group incorporates senior
offices from across the CPP and the connections between the Strategic
Group and the CPP MC will ensure continued dialogue.  The CPP MC will
continue to receive an annual copy of their plans for oversight and
comment. 
Joe advised that MCR pathways to support young people with positive
destination were now working across the area and this may need to be
included as part of the corporate parenting plan. 
(b) VisitScotland - Update on 3 Year Action Plan, Scotland Outlook 2030
and Principles of NSET (David Adams-McGilp) 
David Adams-McGilp, VisitScotland Regional Director, Argyll and the
Isles, and Cathy Craig, CEO Argyll and the Isles Tourism Co-operative,
gave a presentation to the CPP MC on the VisitScotland Action Plan and
the current state of tourism in Argyll and Bute. David and Cathy sit on the
Strategic Tourism Partnership for the area, with two other representatives
from Argyll and Bute Council and Highland and Islands Enterprise. 
David explained the outcomes of the national plan are across four
strategic outcomes: 
-   SPREAD includes easing visitor number pressure in certain areas and
encouraging/promoting visitors to areas with more capacity and looking
at extending the tradition visitor season. There is work ongoing on how
to measure how successful this strategy will be and David noted that

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Scottish tourism is still in a post Covid recovery and growth phase.
-    SPEND covers public and private investment in our tourism facilities,
destinations and experiences to improve visitor experience in Argyll
and Bute.
-   SUSTAINABILITY is a key part of the action plan and the current
Scottish Government Tourism strategy and the National Strategy For
Economic Transformation (NSET) both share a commitment to
destination net zero.
-   SATISFACTION looks at ensuring positive local attitudes to area
tourism using community engagement, visitor management, the rural
tourism infrastructure fund and industry / tourist satisfaction. It is
important that communities do not have development imposed upon
them but that they are part of the planning to make the most of local
assets. 
Cathy gave an overview of the current tourism industry in Argyll and Bute.
The value of the local tourism market has not recovered post pandemic
with visitor numbers down and continued negative effect to local
businesses. The 2023 visitor survey is currently underway and although
tourism is making good process, this year’s market is looking to be more
depressed than last year, with over half of business surveyed in the area
saying they are struggling financially. 
Local tourism opportunities include maritime and coastal tourism, activity
and wellbeing outdoors, community focused experiences, online
discoverability and bookability and green business development. In 2023
a new area tourism website was launched and there have been various
marketing campaigns to attract visitors to the area, especially to boost low
visitor numbers in Mid Argyll and Kintyre. Cathy also advise that visitor
numbers to the area from North America is strong, they spend 2 - 3 times
more per head in the area than UK travellers, but the day trip market is
still down. Recruitment of staff within businesses in Argyll and Bute
remains a critical challenge. 
On positive note, interest in our area is high and funding from Highlands
and Islands Enterprise has enabled the recruitment of a travel trade
expert who has represented Argyll and Bute at national exhibitions and
secured sign up by 21 new travel operators to add Argyll and Bute
destinations to their itineraries. 
David and Cathy said they would be happy to be contacted by any
partners that would like more information on this matter. Joe thanked
them for their presentation and agreed it is a very challenging time for
local businesses. 
Takki agreed tourism is a critical industry for Argyll and Bute and was
keen to ensure that strategic planning around tourism included discussion
with partners around infrastructure, roads and emergency services etc. for
the mainland and island destinations. David ensured him that was already
the case and that local authorities, and aspirations of communities, play a
key role in strategic tourism planning. Morag added that she was already
working with David and Cathy to align tourism into developing economic

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strategy and that engagement with Fergus Murray and Ishabel Bremner
would be helpful to include a joined up approach to this in the ABOIP. 
ACTION - CPP team to discuss inclusion of tourism strategy in the
ABOIP. 
(c) Partnership Approach to Water Safety (PAWS) Group (John
McLuckie) 
John advised that the PAWS Group for Argyll and Bute meets quarterly
and is now chaired by Leigh Hamilton, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs
National Park. Any work of the group will be reported to the CPP MC via
the Community Safety Partnership. 
(d) National Community Planning Network and Knowledge Hub 
John highlighted the paper from the recent Scottish National Community
Planning Network (SCPN) and asked partners to note the Scottish
Government Information Review of CPP alongside a formal review of the
Community Empowerment Act (Scotland) 2015. Discussions on this will
be at a national level and the Local Government Empowerment and
Planning Minister, Joe FitzPatrick, will be meeting with CP Managers
across Scotland. 
The Community Planning Improvement Board (CPIB), supported by the
Improvement Service, discuss and share information with representatives
from national level strategic partners and all Community Planning
Partnerships are invited to comment on their strategic plan (includes
climate, young people, financial security). The CPIB are also keen to talk
to the CPP MC to discuss how we can link in to the CPIB and learn how
we can input into the national agenda. 
ACTION - CPP team to include a representative from the Scottish
Community Planning Network to a future CPP MC at end 2023 / early
2024. 
ACTION - Partners are invited to engage with, and promote, the
Community Planning Network Knowledge Hub. 
7. AOCB 
(a) Child Poverty (John McLuckie) 
John advised that the CPP MC had been instrumental in setting up and
chairing this group which has previously reported to the CPP on a
quarterly basis. The work of this group is of continued interest to the CPP
MC and it has been agreed with Fiona Davies and Mandy Sheridan that in
future this item will report to the CPP MC annually in March. 
(b) Review of National Outcomes - Call for Evidence (John McLuckie) 
John asked attendees to note this paper that included the CPP MC
response to this government survey on National Outcomes for CPP.

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(c) Argyll and Bute Housing Emergency (Cllr Robin Currie) 
Cllr Currie notified to committee that the Council has declared a housing
emergency for Argyll and Bute and encouraged all partners to attend a
Council housing summit that is due to be held in October / November to
agree action on how this can be addressed. Morag added that as housing
has been identified as a priority in the ABOIP consultation and this can be
taken forward by the CPP MC in reference to the work of the Strategic
Housing Forum, which Morag attends, for good practice examples on how
other public sector partners are engaging on this subject.   
Lynn noted she had had recent discussions with Pippa on the challenges
associated with the area housing for employees. Police Scotland have
existing housing estate that they may seek to sell but felt that needed to
be approached as a collective to try to identify how any available housing
stock from partner organisations can be reutilised by other partners, rather
than falling into the private market. Joe gave an example of this and noted
that the new fire station in Salen, Mull will be created from the
refurbishment of a no longer required NHS building. Had that property
gone to the open market it is unlikely the Fire Service would have been
able to acquire it. 
John advised that the scheduled timing of the housing summit dovetails
well with the ABOIP timescale and welcomed input from the Strategic
Housing Forum in advance of the summit. 
ACTION - CPP team to meet with representative from Strategic
Housing Forum to get input in advance of the Council housing
summit. 
Joe agreed radical ideas are need to solve the housing issues in the area
to support people to stay and work here. 
8. DATE OF NEXT MEETING 
The next meeting will be held in person, venue to be confirmed, on Thursday 7
September 2023 at 1000. The availability of hybrid facilities will be confirmed in due
course. 
9. CLOSE 
Joe thanked everyone for their attendance and contribution to the meeting and the
preparation of papers.   
10. ACTION GRID FROM 22 JUNE 2023

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CPP MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEETING ACTION GRID – from 22 June 2023 
Complete  In Progress  Outstanding  Please highlight actions as per traffic light system to show progress  
Date
Set
Action Who Required by Date
7/12/22 Kevin Allibone to raise within DWP the provision of an alternative provider to TalkTalk in
Argyll and Bute due to accessibility issues in this area. Pick up outwith meeting.   
Kevin Allibone  23 March 2023
7/12/22 Jonathon to share the Connect Nations Scotland report with the CPP MC once published
and come back to CPP MC to talk more about what OFCOM are doing to help public
fund investment in these areas.
Jonathan Ruff 23 March 2023
23/3/23 Rona and Iain to meet to discuss the wider communication of the link for residents to
explore if / when full fibre is available and information on the voucher scheme.
Rona / Iain May 2023
23/3/23 Alex Edmonstone to provide a paper and update to June CPP MC meeting on the digital
working group and how communities can be supported to access digital in order to
undertake Community Learning.  
Alex
Edmonstone
22 June 2023
22/6/23 All partners are invited to share comments relating to the lack of a car ferry to Dunoon to
cppadmin@argyll-bute.gov.uk 
All 7 July 2023
22/6/23 Community Planning team to circulate the job description for the Climate Change
Manager position and asked for any nominations to the CCSG to be forwarded to
cppadmin@argyll-bute.gov.uk by Friday 7 July 2023.
All 7 July 2023
22/6/23 Stan, Cllr Currie and Ross McLaughlin to meet to discuss climate change support that
can be provided by the Council.  
Stan, Cllr Currie
and Ross M
End August 2023
22/6/23 Partners are invited to forward ideas on other CCWG activities to
stan.phillips@nature.scot 
All 7 September
2023

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22/6/23 Community Planning team to circulate information to partners regarding the CCWG Chair
position.
CPP team 30 June 2023
22/6/23 Fergus Walker to provide information on activation and spend on Love Local cards to
cppadmin to circulate to partners.
Fergus Walker 7 July 2023
22/6/23 Fergus Walker to share the details of the project with the Poverty Alliance once available,
via the Community Planning team.
Fergus Walker August 2023
22/6/23 All partners are requested to make time available for CWB interviews with CLES. All July - August
2023
22/6/23 Alex to report to September CPP MC on the consultant recommendations for digital
skills, digital inclusion and the results of the Helensburgh free wifi for learning pilot.
Alex E 7 September
2023
22/6/23 Partners are invited to consider the recommendations in the Building Back Better report
and submit suggestions to cppadmin@argyll-bute.gov.uk on ways we can work together
on those.
All End July 2023
22/6/23 CPP team to send reminder to partners that have not completed the ABOIP survey.
Partners to complete and return this by Friday 7 July 2023.
All 7 July 2023
22/6/23 Partners that are interested in joining the ABOIP steering group can contact
cppadmin@argyll-bute.gov.uk by Friday 7 July 2023.
All 7 July 2023
22/6/23 Partners planning community engagement over the next 3 months are requested to
contact the CPP team at cppadmin@argyll-bute.gov.uk to discuss possible involvement
or the inclusion of questions to help inform the next steps in the ABOIP process.
All July - September
2023
22/6/23 CPP team to discuss inclusion of tourism strategy in the ABOIP. CPP team  End July 2023
22/6/23 CPP team to include a representative from the Scottish Community Planning Network to
a future CPP MC at end 2023 / early 2024.
CPP team  November 2023
22/6/23 CPP team to meet with representative from Strategic Housing Forum to get input in
advance of the Council housing summit.
CPP team End July 2023

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