Your data: Community Planning Partnership’s Engagement for Multiple Plans/Strategies

Thank you for participating in this consultation and engagement process.

Community Planning is a way of working which means public bodies work together with communities to plan and provide better public services. Together these public bodies form a Community Planning Partnership (CPP). In Aberdeen the CPP is called Community Planning Aberdeen.

Community Planning Aberdeen members are Aberdeen City Council, ACVO (Aberdeen Council for Voluntary Organisations), Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership, NHS Grampian, North East Scotland College, Police Scotland, Skills Development Scotland, Scottish Enterprise, NESTRANS, Scottish Fire & Rescue Service, Robert Gordon University, and the University of Aberdeen.

How we use your information

The Community Planning Aberdeen Partnership are refreshing a range of strategies, including those listed below, which aim to improve the place you live. These include, but are not limited to:

  • Community Learning and Development Plan
  • Integrated Joint Board Strategic Plan
  • Local Housing Strategy
  • Visitor Levy Consultation
  • Local Development Plan Evidence Report
  • Local Outcome Improvement Plan
  • Locality Plans
  • Children’s Services Plan
  • Waste and Recycling Strategy (Circular economy)

We are asking residents of Aberdeen to participate and share your views. By participating you will help guide the refreshing of the priorities and actions within our Strategies and Plans and also to tell us if the actions we have identified are the right ones.

Your information will be used for statistical purposes only. Aberdeen City Council collects and records information about you during this engagement process.  The results of the engagement will be communicated across Community Planning Aberdeen partners to support the review and development of Strategies/Plans. You will not be identifiable in the information shared. No personal information will be shared.

If you do provide any comments, they may be used in the report, or in other formats that will help us bring your views to life. You won’t be identified as having made the comment.

The engagement encourages all participants to get involved in Community Planning Aberdeen, including the next stage of refresh of the Plans. If you select to get involved in any of the options, we will only use your contact details to get in touch with you regarding the option you selected for as long as you wish to be involved.   If you no longer wish to be involved, please email communityplanning@aberdeencity.gov.uk.

The engagement also asks questions about you. This information is voluntary. By providing the information, you help us monitor the statistical data to ensure the council is interacting in a balanced way with groups of people with protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act 2010.

Response to the play sufficiency assessment part of the consultation will be processed according to the Local Development. For further information on why and how we use your data for the purposes of consultation and engagement for the Local Development plan please see our privacy notice.

How long we keep your information

Responses will be kept until we complete the analysis of the responses. The results of the consultation will be communicated to various Council Committees and Community Planning Aberdeen in the form of a report, which will be published on the Council website and will be kept permanently. You will not be identifiable in the report.

Your rights

You have rights in relation to your data, including the right to ask for a copy of it. See more information about all the rights you have and how these work in practice, as well as the contact details for the Council’s Data Protection Officer. You also have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office if you think we have not handled your data properly.

Our legal basis

Aberdeen City Council is the Data Controller for this data. Wherever we process personal data we must have a legal basis in data protection law and tell you what it is. The Council’s legal basis for this processing is that it is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of the official authority vested in the Council.
In doing so, we may process special categories of personal data, should you choose to provide equality and diversity information. The Council’s legal basis for doing so is that it is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest, if the purpose of equality monitoring.

Where you have provided us with your name and email address to keep you involved and updated about the next stage of the refresh. The Council understands our legal basis for processing your data as being consent. You can withdraw this at any time as explained above.

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