OLDMELDRUM VISION STARTS WITH QUESTIONS – ASKING THE PUBLIC
Aberdeenshire Council officials are working with Oldmeldrum’s Community Council to develop a questionnaire for all people in Oldmeldrum about our Town’s future.
The group will ask a series of questions to make sure there is evidence of public issues that effect local people.
“This is not about proposing solutions to problems yet…. that comes later. We need to know what people’s problems are, their likes and dislikes and their concerns about living here. When we get information we will then be informed about what people say and that helps developing solutions, plans for the Town’s future. We may need to ask more questions and then ask opinions on options, but we will start with a questionnaire” said Andrew McCartney, Chair of the Group from the Community Council.
The group called ‘Future Vision of Oldmeldrum’ will be taking advice and drawing up questions that they believe will give the information needed. Debra Campbell of the Community Planning Partnership and other Aberdeenshire Council officials have assisted in getting the questionnaire under way.
Once the questionnaire is designed, circulated and hopefully returned, then the group will examine and determine what further information is required. The end result will be a Community action plan, that will be agreed by the public based on their responses.
Can you help with info on why the Main Street isn’t a one way system ? It’s so confusing as to who has right of way and the parking is a nightmare
The questionaire and subsequent consultations will deal with all residents views on housing, transport, walks, parking health and many other issues. The strreets are are a medieval street pattern in the centre, and when Aberdeenshire Council decided on orads improvments, the issues were consulted on then. You would need to ask Aberdeenshire Council as to their reasoning for the current arrangements.
I started a facebook page up last week called Oldmeldrum suggestions and concerns .
It may be worth some of your committee members having a look at it ,they will see that a variety of topics have come up from dog fouling to broken fences , from littering to parking on pavements
You are welcome to post to the existing Facebook page, where most people will see things. The page is moderated. It is linked to the Web pages Meldrum Online, so when posters and events are announced they are widely shared.
In respect of the consultation for ‘Oldmeldrum Visions’ The material will be put on Meldrum Online and that gets linked to the Oldmeldrum Facebook page in due course.
In order to pass on the information you posted on Meldrum Online, I checked for the facebook Page mentioned. It does not appear. Is it a private/secret group?
Thanks