Issue - decisions

(i)       in response to Councillor Tissera’s query about how officers planned to access hard to reach communities, to note that officers would provide the detail from the 60 separate exercises with groups from across the city as part of Your Place, Your Plans, Your Future to Councillor Tissera outwith the meeting;

(ii)       to agree that the findings of the Your Place, Your Plans, Your Future Community Planning engagement would provide additional useful information on the transport needs and aspirations of Aberdeen’s citizens, including groups under-represented in previous consultations on the Local Transport Strategy (LTS);

(iii)      to agree that planned engagement on Aberdeen Rapid Transit (ART) provided an opportunity to seek views on transport more widely, for the benefit of the ART project which would depend on the policies of the wider LTS for its success;

(iv)      to instruct the Chief Officer - Strategic Place Planning to use the outcomes of these exercises to inform a revised draft LTS which reflected the views of a broader and more diverse cross-section of the public and stakeholders, and to report this back to Committee in 2026, aligned with the progress of the next Local Development Plan; and

(v)      to agree that the marketing and communications strategy for ART provided an opportunity to promote the vision and aims of the LTS more widely, given that ART would be a key element of the next LTS and the main messages and objectives were common to both projects.