What is Peebles Place Plan?

Peebles Place Plan (PPP) states the community's aspirations and priorities for how we want Peebles to develop over the next 20 years.

The PPP is registered under the Local Place Plan regulation and SBC takes it into account as part of planning policy.

The PPP states our proposals for how land is developed and used within Peebles. It describes the types of changes that local people want to see. It includes a spatial vision of where changes should happen, and a map which shows where.

As part of the PPP, we have also created the Peebles Town Action Plan, which is a more detailed plan for how these changes can be brought about.

More info: SBC's guidance on Local Place Plans; and Our Place.

Who made Peebles Place Plan?

Ideas in the plan come from local townsfolk at public consultation events and build on PCT's 2016 Action Plan (more here).

Thanks to generous funding from SBC, volunteers from Peebles Community Trust, Peebles Community Council and Peebles Civic Society have been assisted by consultants New Practice to perform the Plan for Peebles consultations and produce the current version.

We would like to especially thank Crick Carlton for his significant contribution in leading the Peebles Place Plan on behalf of the local community.

The place plan is registered on behalf of:

• Peebles Community Council
• Peebles Community Trust
• Peebles Civic Society

Endorse Peebles Place Plan

We invite other local organisations to endorse the plan along with:

• Secret Garden Group
• Tweeddale Peace Group
• Tweeddale Quaker Group

Please contact us if your local organisation would like to enquire or endorse the plan.

Next steps

Now that the plan is registered, the task is to drive forward and facilitate delivery of the Peebles Town Action Plan and Place Plan.

Join us

We are seeking active members of community groups who are willing to take a whole town view and contribute required skills, mentoring and strategic context to make the plan a success.

You can read our draft views on Peebles Placemaking Team evolution and if you'd like to be involved, please contact us.

Peebles Place Plan

Read our copy:

• A Plan for Peebles
• Appendix One – Strategic context

The registered version is available on SBC's register of place plans.

Peebles Town Action Plan

A more detailed plan and roadmap for how to bring the PPP about.

For the purposes of regulation 5 (parts 1g & 3) of the Local Place Plan regulations, the Town Action Plan consists of the following documents:

• Peebles Town Action Plan
• Peebles Town Action Plan Roadmap

Referenced documents

• 2017 March St Mills site - community use proposals
• 2017 PCT March Street Mill survey results
• 2019 Profiling Peebles building stock
• 2020 Flooding events Peebles
• 2022 Owning Our Future outputs
• 2023 Peebles generic application of the Place Standard Tool v3
• 2023 Peebles Place Standard Tool survey output histograms
• 2023 Peebles Active Travel Study Stage 2 Report, Appendix Aa, Appendix Ab, Appendix B & C, Community Engagement
• 2024 Peebles - Recreational Opportunities