Community Planning Partnership Management Committee Update
Argyll and Bute Council · 19 August 2025
Back to Helensburgh and Lomond Area Community Planning Group — 19 August 2025 and its agenda
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Classification: OFFICIAL Argyll and Bute Community Planning Partnership Helensburgh and Lomond Area Community Planning Group 19 August 2025 Community Planning Partnership Management Committee Meeting Highlights This briefing is for noting and relevant discussion. Summary The Community Planning Partnership (CPP) Management Committee met on 6th June 2025 in the 3 Villages Hall, Arrochar. The highlights from this meeting are here for the interest of members of the Area Community Planning Group. Access to the reports and full agenda is found by following this link – Agenda for Argyll and Bute Community Planning Partnership - Management Committee on Friday, 6 June 2025, 10:00 am - Argyll and Bute Council Highlights Area Community Planning Group (ACPG) Updates Pippa Milne, Interim Chair of the CPP Management Committee, noted the paper reporting on the ACPG meetings held in May 2025, and highlighted the following key points: - The resignation of Sarah Davies as Chair of Helensburgh and Lomond Area Community Planning Group. Pippa thanked Sarah noting her dedication to the role and said a new Chair would be appointed at the August meeting. - The reappointment of Reeni Kennedy-Boyle as Vice Chair of Bute and Cowal Area Community Planning Group. CPP Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan The Management Committee approved the Climate Change Steering Group’s recommendation to use the remaining project funds to keep the project manager in post for 3 days per week from the end of October 2025 to mid-July 2026. It was also agreed that the Climate Change Steering Group would identify the climate priorities for the CPP and bring them back to a subsequent meeting which could then support asks of resources from partners.
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Classification: OFFICIAL Community Wealth Building (CWB) Charter It was noted that the new CWB Bill proposes that the development of Community Wealth Building sits with the Council rather than with the CPP. Takki Sulaiman outlined a CPP CWB charter and it was agreed this would be taken back to partners’ individual organisations for consideration before a collective decision is made. Priority Outcome - Transport Infrastructure Rona Gold provided an overview of the Transport Infrastructure priority outcome, noting the five actions agreed by the CPP which would form the basis of the discussions in the breakout sessions. Rona also highlighted the importance of working with the Area Community Planning Groups both in terms of input to the overall CPP actions and feedback from this CPP event to help shape local actions. Presentations were delivered under the heading of ‘transport improvements in the pipeline’ by Fergus Murray, Head of Development and Economic Growth for Argyll and Bute Council, Victoria Shaw, Area Manager Clyde North for Caledonian MacBrayne, and Ian Woodcock, Area Manager for Transport Scotland. All slides from the presentations are available from the link at the top of this Highlight report. Attendees participated in breakout groups for the majority of the day, focused on shaping the five CPP transport infrastructure actions: 1. Establish a transport integration working group 2. Consider establishment of community Active Travel network 3. Research to understand areas of greatest transport-related inequalities, creating baseline for measuring successful delivery of the long-term objectives 4. Work with Area Community Planning Groups to promote local options for car- pooling/ sharing 5. Incorporate EV suggestions within CPP Climate Change Strategy Pippa thanked everyone for their contributions to the discussions on Transport Infrastructure. The comments captured during the breakout sessions and next steps will be shared by the Community Planning Team. Introduction to Priority Outcome - Housing Douglas Whyte, Housing Strategy Manager for Argyll and Bute Council, highlighted the importance of links with partners on the topic of housing, noting in particular the Council declaration of a housing emergency in 2023 to address issues including provision of more affordable homes, provision of more homes for local workforce and to make use of existing empty homes/second homes/holiday homes. Iona Campbell, Private Sector Settlement Officer, delivered a presentation on her project which aims to support landlords and help prevent further reduction in private sector housing options. Iona highlighted the links between her work and the actions
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under the CPP priority outcome of Housing, and encouraged partners to engage in
the forthcoming housing survey.
Pippa thanked Douglas and Iona for their presentations and looked forward to the
focused discussion on Housing actions for the CPP at its next meeting in September.
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service – Service Delivery Review
SFRS Group Commander Barrie McCutcheon gave a presentation on the Service
Delivery Review which looks at how the fire service can best resource staff and
locate stations to match demand across the area.
A total of 23 proposals, approved by the SFRS board will be open to public
consultation until 16 September. The consultation is available through this link. In
Argyll and Bute, SFRS are looking to close the long term dormant station at
Colintraive and make changes to the crewing of Helensburgh Fire Station.
Barrie is keen for partners to feedback their thoughts and get the feedback from
communities on risks in any area of these proposed changes and it was confirmed
that a paper has been prepared for the next round of ACPG meetings on the
consultation.
Barrie advised that SFRS are aware of community concerns around fire risk from
battery storage plants and confirmed crews are carrying the required equipment to
respond to that.
Close
Pippa thanked everyone for attending and encouraged attendees to start thinking
about the Housing discussion to take place at the CPP Management Committee
meeting in September.
Pippa highlighted that the focused nature of the current Argyll and Bute Outcomes
Improvement Plan with its 3 priority outcomes and actions under each priority has
the potential to drive real and meaningful change.
For More Information:
John McLuckie, Partnerships Lead, john.mcluckie@argyll-bute.gov.uk
Full minutes of CPP Management Committee meetings are found here: {Browse
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