22 February 2025
Community Conversations Tue 25 Feb - What to expect/Who is it for?
Hopefully you've seen our other posts, the advert in the Orcadian or possibly a poster about our Community Conversations event on Tuesday 25 February. Over the next couple of days we want to share a bit more information to help encourage you to attend 
WHAT CAN I EXPECT?
Once you’re in the hall, you’ll see different stalls set out about each of the 6 main topics being covered at the event – Stenness Local Place Plan, Stenness Outdoor Community Space project, Stenness School Travel Plan, Orkney World Heritage Site programme, draft management plan for the Heart of Neolithic Orkney and Sustrans discussing a potential path network.
Each stall will have maps, copies of the draft plan or design depending on what stage they are at and some friendly faces willing to try and answer questions you might have, or explain something in a bit more detail.
We’re also going to have a central seating area with tables where folk can grab a hot drink and a biscuit and sit to read through things in more detail or have more lengthy discussions as needed.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
It's for anyone interested in the topics being discussed; obviously there’s a few things like the Stenness Local Place Plan that will be quite specific to Stenness residents but other matters such as the Orkney World Heritage Site programme, and the potential path network Sustrans are looking at, will be very relevant to folk across Orkney. All the ideas are about making positive yet sympathetic changes to make things better for local folk.
We all know from experience that often people think that they don’t know enough about something to comment, so its not worthwhile going, but the Community Association would like to try and dispel that and reassure folk that they don’t have to have done a lot of homework in advance – if you want to read up beforehand, that’s great, but you can just as easily come to see what information we have to share with you.
