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Plans & Policies


East Ayrshire Council is committed to making your local environment cleaner and safer and there are several plans in place to ensure that environmental aims and objectives are met. These include:

Ayrshire Dumfries and Galloway Area Waste Plan
Local Biodiversity Action Plan
East Ayrshire Council Community Plan

Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway Area Waste Plan

Find out more about why the Kerbside Recycling service was introduced and what future plans there are...

Working with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), the Ayrshire, Dumfies & Galloway Waste Strategy Area Group produced plans to tackle various issues of waste management at a local level. The Ayrshire, Dumfries & Galloway Area Waste Plan was therefore introduced taking into consideration the opinions of local businesses, people and organisations.

The Scottish Executive has set national targets to increase the amount of waste collected by local authorities which is recycled or sent for composting, bringing Scotland in line with European Union landfill reduction targets by 2010, 2013 and 2020.

Download a copy of the Area Waste plan (614Kb)

Local Biodiversity Action Plan

Ayrshire has a remarkable range of habitats from marine environments to woodlands. Find out what is being done about saving the biodiversity of your local area...

The Ayrshire Biodiversity Group is comprised of a wide range of organisations and individuals who have knowledge and experince of the biodiversity of Ayrshire. This group was central in the production of the Local Biodiversity Action Plan.

The Action Plan clearly identifies priority habitats and species which require attention. It also sets out what specific actions are required, who should lead such action and offers a timetable action should follow.

Local Biodiversity Action Plan.

East Ayrshire Council Community Plan

East Ayrshire Council has two main aims in the Community Plan for the local environment:

• to improve the natural and built amenities for residents and visitors through investment in leisure, recreational and cultural activity in order to regenerate communities.
  
  
• to promote sustainability by protecting, conserving and enhancing character, appearance and amenity of the natural and built environment for future generations.

East Ayrshire Community Plan.