The Three Towns are getting £20 million from the UK Government to invest in improvements over the next 10 years.
How it will be spent will be shaped by the people who know the towns best - you!
Between September 2026 and November 2026, the newly established Town Board is working with local communities across the Three Towns to prepare a community-led investment plan for £20 million Pride in Place funding to submit to the UK Government for approval. The Government deadline is 30th November 2026.
This webpage tells the story of how the plan is being prepared.
Use the buttons below to jump to the section you’re interested in, or scroll down to see the whole story.
The deadline for commenting on the draft plan is Sunday 15 November.
After that, the Town Board will update the plan to take account of feedback, before submitting it to the UK Government for their 30th November deadline.
The Town Board
The UK Government requires a Town Board to be established to develop, oversee and deliver the Pride in Place funding.
The Board comprises local people, business and political representatives, and in line with UK Government guidance.
The Board was established in late summer 2026. Its first task is to prepare the investment plan, to be submitted to the UK Government for approval by the end of November 2026. That plan is what this website is about.
Find out more information about the Town Board, its members and its role here.
Preparing the plan
During Autumn 2026, an intensive programme of community engagement has been taking place including:
A community survey during September to gain an up-to-date understanding of people’s aspirations for the Three Towns. A big thank you to the approximately 850 people who responded. Jump to community survey to see the survey responses.
Youth engagement to make sure that the people who will be here longest - our young people - have a say in the future of their communities. To find out more, go to page 25 of the Aspirations report.
Conversations with over 40 community organisations active across the Three Towns to understand their future plans - because one of the UK Government requirements is that the plan has to be community-led. To find out more, go to page 24 of the Aspirations report.
Community drop-ins across the Three Towns: eleven events during September and October, giving people opportunities to ask questions, make suggestions and meet the Town Board. To find out more, go to page 23 of the Aspirations report.
Publication of the draft plan for public feedback in late October. Jump to draft plan to see and comment on the draft plan. Deadline: Sunday 15th November.
The image below contains more information about the engagement process to create the draft plan. Click on the image to zoom in.
There will be much more community engagement as the 10 year funding programme unfolds. This initial community engagement is simply to enable the Town Board to submit a plan for UK Government approval which reflects community aspirations.
After the plan has been submitted to the UK Government at the end of November, the Town Board will start to make detailed arrangements for how the 10 year funding will be disbursed from Spring 2027 onwards.
Community aspirations
Community survey
To make sure that every resident in the Three Towns had the opportunity to shape the plan, Royal Mail was commissioned to deliver a survey to every household. Over 850 people responded.
The six images below summarise the results. Click or tap on the main image to zoom in on it. Use the side arrows to move between images. Download the full set of all six images here (0.7m PDF).
For more details about the survey, including full transcriptions of responses, scroll down to the Aspirations report.
Aspirations report
The Community Aspirations report contains full details of the survey results, plus other information and results from the community engagement process undertaken in September and October 2026.
You can download the report here (5mb PDF).
The draft plan
The first draft of the plan was launched for feedback at a drop-in event in Saltcoats Town Hall on Wednesday 28 October 2026, attended by over 130 people.
If you missed the event, you can see the draft plan in the four images below. Click or tap on any image to zoom in.
The first image explains how the money should be invested. This includes UK Government requirements, plus some suggested principles for how the funding could be invested locally.
The other three images suggests priorities for what the money should be invested: jobs & local economy, community life, and spaces & places.
To download all four images in a single file, click or tap here (250kb PDF).
Remember: this is a draft for your feedback. Please let us know what you think using the big button below.
The deadline for feedback is Sunday 15 November.
The Town Board will then finalise the plan and submit it to the UK Government before their deadline of 30 November. The finalised plan will be published on this webpage.