Environment & Heritage

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  Greenspaces are important to people in Blairgowrie and Rattray. They don’t want to continue to lose them to development. They see them as important for recreation, health, and wellbeing, growing local produce, biodiversity, and in creating a place that is attractive for residents and visitors and which in turn contributes to the local economy.

  Priorities include continuing to develop community allotments, gardens and orchards; continuing to develop the Riverside and Davie Park so that they draw people to them as ‘destinations’; and making sure that residential areas across the town have access to their own quality greenspaces to enjoy.

  Continuing to improve and develop walking and cycling routes was also important – within the town itself and out into the wider countryside.

  Walking, cycling, and making the most of greenspaces were seen as aspects of trying to reduce the local carbon footprint. Other carbon reducing initiatives should also be encouraged and included continuing the HEAT energy advice service and looking again at plans for a hydro scheme on the River Ericht as well as other options for renewable energy.

  People thought there is a case for Blairgowrie’s identity to be closely linked to these environmental assets and ambitions – and advocated the development and promotion of it as a place that is ‘Green and Growing Locally’ and which is aiming to be a ‘Low Carbon - High Nature Town’.

  The consultation for the CAP also highlighted the importance of local heritage and how it should be made much more of with suggestions including heritage trails, heritage interpretation, restoring historic buildings, creating a local heritage museum, and ‘retrieving’ local historic artifacts to the town currently archived in other museums.

  In pursuing these it was noted that it would be valuable to connect into wider area initiatives. Those mentioned included e.g., Strathmore Cycle Network, Cateran Trail, Cateran Eco Museum, ‘Ancient Routes, Modern Scots’.

Priority List of Actions

The following items were identified for action:-

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