Grangemouth residents urged to help improve local area post-covid

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Residents are being urged to get involved in an action plan to tackle some of the major issues facing Grangemouth, after work was delayed by the covid pandemic.

The first meeting of 'Let's Make Grangemouth Better - a community action plan' is being held online this Thursday from 7-8pm.The meeting will start to put into practice a vision of how to tackle issues around housing, health, employment and town centre regeneration.The plan's priorities were decided by local people after who took part in a consultation called Your Place Your Views in 2019.And the meeting, hosted by Grangemouth Community Council, also hopes to also show how much work has already been done in a bid to improve the town - and how getting involved will benefit everyone.While the 2019 consultation was successful in reaching people to find out what really matters to them, the pandemic put a sudden stop to all progress.Now it's time to get things back on track and Grangemouth Community Council is urging people to get involved again.Vice-chair Walter Inglis says the consultation saw "brilliant engagement" from the local community.Mr Inglis said: "The consultants did a great jobs reaching into the community at all levels to understand what people's aspirations are and the problems they had in the community."The detailed, 200-page report was accepted in full by Falkirk Council, which now leads the Community Planning Partnership to put the action into the plan.This will involve lots of organisations including the NHS, Police Scotland and Forth Valley College as well as businesses.But having local people on board will be vital to any success, says Mr Inglis."The trick here is trying to get the community engaged and being part of the solution," he said."We're