The draft Borgue Local Place Plan is available for consultation and comments via this web site and a hard copy will be available in the Borgue Public Hall. Click on the image above to find out more.
Draft Local Place Plan
The draft Borgue Local Place Plan is available for consultation and comments via this web site and a hard copy will be available in the Borgue Public Hall. Click on the image above to find out more.
The draft local place plan is very informative about Borgue and has clearly involved a great deal of work. The number of people who have responded to the consultation is impressive.
My only criticism – and I include myself in this, is that the comments about housing, work opportunities and infrastructure have included so little long term or innovative suggestions.
The community needs to be drawing up plans now to address the problem of an ageing population who will in the near future not be able to drive. The current bus service does not serve all the properties beyond the village centre and so there needs to be some sort of car sharing rota or taxi service or a community run bus – for shopping, evening events, visits to places of interest. In the past there was a post office bus that would pick up passengers and take them to Kirkcudbright where they could get a taxi home in the afternoon. Alternatively could the local bus service introduce a ‘phone for a bus’ service that would divert from routes between Kbt, Gatehouse and beyond to pick up passengers along the C8S abd B727 roads?
Now that the Cream o Galloway and Laggan adventure parks have closed, the Plan might give consideration to developing an adventure facility – for example an indoor skating/curling rink? How about the mothballed school being used as a youth centre, indoor climbing wall?