Creative placemaking is defined as support to community-led engagement which incorporates creative activity to facilitate positive change for people and the places they live.

Dumfries and Galloway Council are looking to establish a framework for creative placemaking providers to enable a compliant route to appointing services to support communities to engage local people over a range of topics.

The framework will cover the following (not exclusive to):

- Work at the instruction of Local Place Teams, the Place Planning Partnership and wider Communities and Economy & Development services regarding when and where interventions are required.

- As requested, provide hands- on support to communities expressing an interest in developing plans, programmes, and projects, specifically support to creatively engage with their local community, in particular those that are marginalised and/ or harder- to- reach.

- As requested, build communities’ capacity to use a range of creative engagement techniques, including those suitable for children and young people.

- As requested, informing the development of strategy, e.g., a place plan, a masterplan, inputting to the preparation of feasibility studies, options appraisals, project and business cases.

- Collect evaluative outcome evidence and case studies regarding the success of creative placemaking interventions with communities.

- Report evaluative evidence to the Council and partners as appropriate.

- Assist partners to understand the value of and consider creative placemaking when communities are finding engagement challenging.

The framework will cover the following (not exclusive to):

- Work at the instruction of Local Place Teams, the Place Planning Partnership and wider Communities and Economy & Development services regarding when and where interventions are required.

- As requested, provide hands- on support to communities expressing an interest in developing plans, programmes, and projects, specifically support to creatively engage with their local community, in particular those that are marginalised and/ or harder- to- reach.

- As requested, build communities’ capacity to use a range of creative engagement techniques, including those suitable for children and young people.

- As requested, informing the development of strategy, e.g., a place plan, a masterplan, inputting to the preparation of feasibility studies, options appraisals, project and business cases.

- Collect evaluative outcome evidence and case studies regarding the success of creative placemaking interventions with communities.

- Report evaluative evidence to the Council and partners as appropriate.

- Assist partners to understand the value of and consider creative placemaking when communities are finding engagement challenging.

The framework will cover the following (not exclusive to):

- Work at the instruction of Local Place Teams, the Place Planning Partnership and wider Communities and Economy & Development services regarding when and where interventions are required.

- As requested, provide hands- on support to communities expressing an interest in developing plans, programmes, and projects, specifically support to creatively engage with their local community, in particular those that are marginalised and/ or harder- to- reach.

- As requested, build communities’ capacity to use a range of creative engagement techniques, including those suitable for children and young people.

- As requested, informing the development of strategy, e.g., a place plan, a masterplan, inputting to the preparation of feasibility studies, options appraisals, project and business cases.

- Collect evaluative outcome evidence and case studies regarding the success of creative placemaking interventions with communities.

- Report evaluative evidence to the Council and partners as appropriate.

- Assist partners to understand the value of and consider creative placemaking when communities are finding engagement challenging.

The framework will cover the following (not exclusive to):

- Work at the instruction of Local Place Teams, the Place Planning Partnership and wider Communities and Economy & Development services regarding when and where interventions are required.

- As requested, provide hands- on support to communities expressing an interest in developing plans, programmes, and projects, specifically support to creatively engage with their local community, in particular those that are marginalised and/ or harder- to- reach.

- As requested, build communities’ capacity to use a range of creative engagement techniques, including those suitable for children and young people.

- As requested, informing the development of strategy, e.g., a place plan, a masterplan, inputting to the preparation of feasibility studies, options appraisals, project and business cases.

- Collect evaluative outcome evidence and case studies regarding the success of creative placemaking interventions with communities.

- Report evaluative evidence to the Council and partners as appropriate.

- Assist partners to understand the value of and consider creative placemaking when communities are finding engagement challenging.