The feedback from recent community engagement has helped us to determine 5 themes for the Local Place Plan. The Plan will show ambition, development and creativity and reflect the needs and wants of local people. Come along to any or all of the “Theme Events” and hear presentations from officials and organisations and discuss the topics further. This will help to create possible projects for discussion at the last event.

We're hoping to reform the Dunshalt Book Group that hasn’t met since Covid. If you’d like to join or just find out more about the group, please come along to the Village Hall on Thursday 9 November at 7.30 pm

There will be a small fee to cover the cost of hiring the hall (depending on numbers, probably around £2.}

Prior to Covid we would meet every 6 weeks or so and discuss one book we had agreed on. We were a very friendly group who just loved reading and liked to laugh together.

At this first meeting, we can decide how often we want to meet and how to choose our first book to read and discuss. If you’d like to, please bring along a book you’ve enjoyed to chat about or recommend. Books will have to be bought or borrowed.

There’s no obligation to talk about the books if you just like to listen, but any thoughts, views and insights are always welcome.

Looking forward to seeing you

Is your home in danger of flooding or about to flood? Please click HERE for practical advice from the Scottish Flood Forum.

Place Plan Consultation Highlights Common Issues

The same key themes were highlighted across Auchtermuchty, Strathmiglo, Dunshalt and Gateside in this summer’s consultation for the Local Place Plan. These themes are:

• Quality of Life: Housing; Village Connections; Health and Wellbeing.
• Work and Opportunity: Enterprise; Employment; Tourism.
• Play and Leisure: Park areas; Music, theatre and festivals; Use of natural assets
• Connectivity: Transport; Active travel; Broadband.
• Environment: Routes and paths; Flood prevention; Biodiversity.

Behind these headline themes there is a mass of detail collected from the community survey and community surveys which you can see in the draft report at https://auchtermuchtytrust.org/

The next step will be to turn these themes into practical suggestions for the local place plan and community projects. There will be further consultation in coming up with these proposals

Once again those living at the north end of the village suffered as the Auchtermuchty Burn broke its banks. Sepa publish a flood map which shows areas at risk of flooding, which based on recent local experience is very informative and accurat.e. Click HERE to find out if your home is at risk or if you can rest easy.