Town council adopts the Llangollen's People's Plan

 

At its monthly meeting last night the town council formally adopted Llangollen’s People’s Plan.

Known as Caru/Love Llangollen, the plan has been prepared by a team of volunteers, under the auspices of the council, with the aim of providing a comprehensive vision for how the town should develop over the next four years. 

The suggestions in it are based on what the group Shape My Llangollen (SML), which steered the project, was told by the people of the area in a series of pre-pandemic public consultation sessions when they were asked about what they liked or didn't like about the town and how they reckon it could be improved.

These consultation sessions generated over 1,700 separate answers.

And, based on these answers, the volunteers produced the final draft of the plan which contains around 90 proposals for improving Llangollen and its quality of life and work up until the year 2026. 

Shape My Llangollen put the People's Plan back to the people for the final round of consultation last December before producing the final version, which was approved by members of the town council at their meeting last night.

Now that it has been formally adopted, the new council, elected on May 5, will be able to consider which elements of the plan can be fed into the council's business plan. 

At last night's meeting town councillors thanked members of Shape My Llangollen’s core team for their hard work in preparing it since 2018.

Phil Robinson, who chairs SML, said: “The plan’s adoption by the town council is the culmination of almost four years of hard work by the team which I have had the honour of leading.

"This is truly the People's Plan and something which has never been done before in Llangollen.

"I'd like to thank everyone, including organisations large and small, who helped us to complete this very important piece of work for the town’s future development and members of SML whose dedication has seen our work through to its conclusion.”

* To look through the finalised plan online - and turn it over page by page - go to: https://pubhtml5.com/gaql/bmps