In 2023 the Findhorn Foundation and Community engaged Collective Architecture Ltd to develop a Strategic Framework and Phasing Plan for the Park Ecovillage Findhorn, in consultation with local community and stakeholders, with the forthcoming Moray Local Development Plan 2025. This was held by a cross-organisational group (DevCom now Local Place Plan Group) with representation from all the major stakeholders in The Park.
Between January 2023 and February 2024 the following consultations and the final presentation of the report took place in the Universal Hall. There are a couple of other ways of accessing the information is
- NFA findhorn.cc website showing the LPPG information
- The Local Place Plan Group (LPPG) has created a Google Drive folder
Collective Architecture provided the information as pdfs which we offer here in flipbook form to ensure that they can be accessed easily on different devices. To view the documents in full-screen format click on the crossed double arrows at the bottom of the window and zoom as needed. You can also download them.
At the end of January 2023 Collective Architecture undertook a consultation process and in that context designed the following information boards. They give a wonderful, concise overview of the past and present of the Park Ecovillage.
The consultation process resulted in a Feedback Newsletter published in March 2023.
On 22nd April 2023 the second consultation took place with the following information panels.
18th June 2023: Collective Architecture provides information outlining the purpose of their brief, explaining the Local Place Plan, the Call for Ideas, and the timeline of consultations.
23rd June 2023: Collective Architecture shares with the Community the content of the online form they will be submitting on behalf of Findhorn Foundation and Devcom (cross organisational development committee) a series of broad, intermediate ‘ideas’ to meet the deadline of June 30th. This submission is only a statutory checkpoint in an ongoing process, and the ideas demonstrated are subject to change following further community consultation due to take place in late July & August 2023.
12th August 2023: Living together in The Park Ecovillage Findhorn – Housing and Ecology workshop. This is the report following participatory consultation held in the Universal Hall.
20th February 2024: Presentation of the final report to the Community in the Universal Hall. Ann McKellin announced that the Findhorn Foundation was gifting this work to the Community to support the Local Place Plan process.
We thank to the Findhorn Foundation and Collective Architecture Limited for the permission to offer this information on this website.
The LPP Group came together in 2023 to facilitate the creation of a Local Place Plan for the Park Ecovillage to be submitted to Moray Council to inform their next 10 year Development Plan.
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