Outer Hebrides Community Planning Partnership

Communities throughout Uist will have the opportunity to have their views heard this coming Monday as the Outer Hebrides Community Planning Partnership heads to Benbecula to stage a Community Engagement Event.

The facilitated event will be held in Lionacleit School’s Lecture Theatre from 5pm to 6.30pm and aims to garner the views of local communities, focusing on how Partnership Agencies and organisations can best fulfil a joint vision for the Outer Hebrides.

This vision, detailed in the Single Outcome Agreement (SOA), looks at improving population balances, improving the economy; ensuring people are well educated, well skilled, well trained; improving health and wellbeing; strengthening local communities; making use of natural and cultural resources and continuously improving services.

Chair of the OHCPP, Angus Campbell said:

“The OHCPP holds meetings throughout the Islands and I am delighted that we will be in Uist next week. I would urge all individuals who have an interest in how their community develops to come along to Monday’s meeting. It is an opportunity to shape the means by which the Comhairle, the Health Board, the Enterprise Company and other agencies deliver for communities in the Outer Hebrides.”

The engagement event will be followed shortly afterwards by a meeting of the OHCPP at 7.30pm in the same location, and both events are open to members of the public and representatives of the community.

Similar events will be being held in Harris and Lewis in the near future.

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