Girvan's Story

We have been awarded £230,000 by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Historic Environment Scotland and South Ayrshire Council for the development of Girvan's Story, a community-led regeneration project.

The funding will be used to develop a detailed bid for the Girvan's Story Project which aims to improve several of Girvan's landmark buildings.

If we are successful in our bid then around £5m would be spent on the project over five years. Other benefits would include the setting up of a small grants scheme to support owners with the cost of shopfront improvements and building repairs.

Traditional skills training would also take place and there would be a heritage activities programme to raise awareness of Girvan's rich history.

Development work completed to date includes a review of the conservation area. Approximately 100 community members participated in an online questionnaire and supported an amendment to the conservation area boundary.

We have recently appointed Glasgow based architects O'Donnell Brown who bring a wealth of experience in community-led regeneration and heritage projects. They are managing a Design Team to complete initial survey work for several of our priority projects.

A traditional skills audit was undertaken to understand the skills gaps in the area and identify opportunities to partner with local organisations to provide training for young people.

We are also working with Consultants Ice Cream Architecture to develop a 5 -year programme of traditional skills training and heritage activities.  We want to ensure that this accurately reflects the needs and interests of local people so please come along to one of our planned drop-in events detailed below to get involved.

Wednesday 29^th January at The Girvan Townhouse 3:30 - 7pm

Saturday 1^st February at the Glendoune Community Centre 10:30 - 2:30pm

For further information contact the Project Officer by e-mailing girvansstory@south-ayrshire.gov.uk