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Hello and Happy 2020!

We believe it will be! We apologise for the break in communication, but rest assured, we are working hard behind the scenes to take matters forward, So, what have we been doing?

Well, we've been working with local Community Councils, schools and Perth College UHI, to engage with young children, young adults and local residents to discuss the vision and where we are. In order to start a wide programme of public engagement, we will soon be appointing additional staff and bringing on board consultants to help us formulate a design on the back of input from yourselves. We will then re-engage on the design and see what amendments are required, before consulting on a final approach. We expect this to take a good 12-18 months in total.

We will be in touch very soon!

Hello!

We haven't gone anywhere, but things have dragged out a bit our end. Getting the necessary resources on board has taken a bit longer than planned, which has resulted in a scaled down engagement programme over the last couple of weeks. We want to ramp this up as quick as possible and will hopefully address the issue by the end of the year, ready to hit things hard in 2020!

We will be launching a new Commonplace website, which will cover all the investment taking place across the city. It will be your 'one stop shop' for the the next five years. Once we have some exciting news about future engagement, we will announce it publicly and inform you by email, social media etc.

Thank you for your patience.

Hello.

We have some exciting news....we got some funding!!

As it stands, Sustrans and Transport Scotland have committed to working with the council to deliver the Dunkeld Road corridor, which links Luncarty to the city centre.

In order to start taking things forward, we will be rolling out a significant consultation programme later this year, which will involve a number of public events. We will announce details of these in advance, when we have enough information to do so and have some additional resources on board.

We acknowledge change of this scale can be scary and the unknown can make some people feel anxious as to what lies ahead, so we would like to take this opportunity to clarify that no decision has been taken as to what the design will look like.

The initial images for Dunkeld Road were part of a feasibility exercise, which was aimed as generating a debate on how we want our streets to operate and what we want from our city. Thankfully, you and wider public joined the debate and showed a healthy appetite for change. There are also others who don't want change and disagreed with the initial proposals and that is ok! We are not looking for everyone to agree, as that is completely unrealistic.

What we do want to create is an understanding of why we are looking to make important changes and in order to do that, we know we need to take the time and create opportunities to talk to people, understand their concerns and how we can look to overcome them or, as a minimum, help clarify the picture and reduce any anxieties they may have.

This project aims to deliver better streets for people. It's about Perth, People, Place.

Hello.

First of all, the council would like to thank you for your contribution to the website over the last 6 months. We've had well over 6,000 visits to the websites during the period of consultation, with over 1,200 comments. A fantastic response! This is well and above anything we've achieved before. Whilst we recognise the digital approach isn't for everyone, it has allowed to engage with a much wider audience which is what we wanted to achieve.

Complementing the websites, was a series of public engagements during October 2018 and January 2019, as well as a number of private workshops with key stakeholders who represent local communities, ethnic minority groups and people with mobility and sensory impairments.

We acknowledge we haven't been able to engage with everyone we'd like to at this point, so we will tackle that at the next point. What is that? Well, we will be submitting our business case on the 26th April. On the back of that, the council and partners will present its bid to a panel on the 6th June in Edinburgh, after which we will find out by the end of June if we have been successful with our bid. As soon as we hear anything, we will be in touch and look to kick off the next phase of public engagement. We hope to be in touch with good news soon!!

Thank you

Hello.

We've been monitoring comments on our proposals for active travel over the last ten days and there are a number of comments stating we should be spending our money on council services. We just want to help clarify the situation, so you, the public, are aware of what's going on.

As it stands, PKC is competing for funding via Sustrans and its 'Places for Everyone' programme (recently rebranded from the Community Links PLUS programme). As it stands, we are looking at a substantial bid. Why? Two reasons:

As it stands, we are using capital funding from the following programmes to leverage in funding:

There is no impact on education or housing capital programmes. If anything, this investment will complement funding in these areas, by making it easier and safer for people to move around.

The proposals close to public consultation on the 29th March, so please use the link below to share and comment in the meantime.

Thanks

Hello!

A quick update - we will be in Perth on the 16th March, along with Bike Station Perth and Zero Waste Perth (ZWP). Using the ZWP workshop for an afternoon, we will be there to promote the proposals and engage with the public. Like, dislike or unsure on the proposals? Come along and talk to us. We understand that our proposals won't be for everyone, but we are keen to develop an understanding of why we want to re-design our streets for people and how this benefits the city centre.

We hope to see you there!