Community Regeneration
The Community Regeneration Team delivers a range of services to support some of our most disadvantaged communities and individuals, with a particular emphasis on engaging with people to build personal and community capacity.
What Do We Do
- Community Regeneration
- Support to the voluntary sector
The service produces locality plans for the thirteen regeneration areas. These plans outline the activities to be delivered that meet the regeneration needs of the individual areas. The activities within the action plan focus on:
- Developing the capacity of individuals and community based projects to assist regeneration in the most disadvantaged communities.
- Delivering targeted campaigns and support to reduce inequality in these communities.
Locality Plans
The Community Empowerment Act 2015 states that all Community Planning Partnerships in Scotland must develop plans for those communities which experience the poorest outcomes. These plans must identify local priorities and detail actions to be taken to reduce inequalities.
In West Lothian, we have developed six locality plans which covers groupings of disadvantaged areas as follows:
- Livingston (Deans, Carmondean, Knightsridge, Craigshill, Dedridge, Ladywell)
- Armadale
- Whitburn & Blackburn
- Bathgate (with a focus on Boghall)
- Fauldhouse and the Breich Valley
- Bridgend
These areas have been identified as disadvantaged due to having neighbourhoods that are ranked in the most deprived 20% across Scotland. This is based on data in the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD), which is a database of information about communities across Scotland published by the Scottish Government. A map illustrating this is available here: SIMD (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation)
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