Falkirk Council is carrying out a Call for Ideas and Sites between Friday 24 January 2025 and Friday 02 May 2025 to inform the preparation of the new Falkirk Local Development Plan 3 (LDP3).

The Call for Ideas is an opportunity for individuals, community groups or other organisations to suggest new uses, improvements, or protection for sites or vacant buildings in their locality. These will be considered by the Council in preparing the LDP3 Proposed Plan. You can suggest your idea by completing a short survey on the Council's consultation hub, Participate Plus.

Through the Call for Sites, we are inviting developers, landowners and agents to put forward sites they would like to be considered for future allocation in LDP3. The Call for Sites is not exclusively limited to suggestions for housing sites. Sites for employment, retail, leisure, tourism, community infrastructure and other types of development can also be submitted. If the site is already an allocated site in the current local development plan (LDP2), and has not commenced, you should still make a submission as all allocated sites need to be reassessed. We will pay particular attention to allocated sites where there is no extant planning permission as of 01 January 2025, and sites with extant consents but where no demonstrable progress has been made towards implementation.

You should submit your site by completing the Call for Sites Submission Form and sending it along with any accompanying information to Falkirk Council's Development Planning Team at ldp@falkirk.gov.uk and no later than Friday 02 May 2025. Emails and attachments must have a file size of less than 35 megabytes (MB). We will send an email acknowledgement on receipt of your submission.

Following the Call for Sites exercise, we intend to publish the details of site submissions and invite public comment as part of the Strategy and Site Choices Consultation later in the year. After that, we will undertake an assessment of the sites using the site assessment methodology outlined in Chapter 011 of the Falkirk LDP3 Evidence Report. A Site Assessment Report will be published alongside the Proposed Plan.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or wish to discuss your ideas and site suggestions prior to responding to this consultation, please contact us at ldp@falkirk.gov.uk.